10% of children present in a Spanish school classroom were born thanks to assisted reproduction

Treatments with egg donation

There are some patients for whom pregnancy using their own eggs or semen is not possible. In the case of women, problems are closely related to age.

Under these circumstances, patients may consider treatment using eggs and semen from anonymous donors. In these cases, treatment is the same, the difference being the use of donated gametes instead of the patients’ own.

It is important to note that these treatments obtain very high success rates as the quality of both eggs and sperm is guaranteed and, therefore, the chances of achieving pregnancy are very high.

Fertility preservation, a guaranteed attempt at a future pregnancy.

As described, assisted reproduction brings together a set of techniques, always based on a diagnosis made by specialists, which enable many couples to achieve a pregnancy.

However, more women attend HC Fertility who despite being determined to become a mother, consider that the time has not yet arrived and who wish to delay having a child. Egg vitrification allows fertility to be preserved until they decide that the time is right.

You will already know that a woman’s fertility begins to decrease over the years. In other words, as a woman’s age progresses, both the quality and quantity of her eggs begin to decline, quite significantly after the age of 36 or 37 and very markedly from the age of 40, with very few options then available to achieve a natural pregnancy.

Using fertility preservation, women can freeze their own eggs, at the age of, for example, 32, when they are still of good quality, enabling them to try and have a child in the future, with the same chance as they would have had if they had done so at the age of 32. Egg freezing maintains eggs in the same condition as when they were frozen, indefinitely.

Is assisted reproduction also for patients who do not have fertility problems?

Generally, we associate assisted reproduction with fertility-related problems. It is clear that this is true in most of the cases we deal with at HC Fertility, but we should remember that assisted reproduction is the key for couples made up of two women, as well as those who consider motherhood without having a partner, to fulfil their dream of starting a family and achieving a pregnancy, without necessarily having any fertility problem. In many cases these women do not have any gynaecological problems, or at least no problem distinct from those presented by any other woman. Simply, they need to resort to assisted reproduction for treatment in which we can fertilise their eggs with a sample of donor semen to obtain the embryos which will be transferred to them afterwards. The number of women without a male partner has increased considerably in the last 10 years, and thanks to assisted reproduction, many families have been created responsibly and without taking unnecessary  risks.