If you have been trying to get pregnant for a year or longer, you might be dealing with infertility issues, and be curious about Assisted Reproductive Technology, or ART.
What is Assisted Reproductive Technology?
There are various definitions for Assisted Reproductive Technology. The definition according to the Center for Disease Control is based on the 1992
Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act.
This definition says that Assisted Reproductive Technology is: All fertility treatments in which both eggs and sperm are handled.
Basically, Assisted Reproductive Technology procedures involve surgically removing eggs from a woman’s ovaries, combining them with sperm in the laboratory, and returning them to the woman’s body or donating them to another woman.
Assisted Reproductive Technology procedures do not include treatments in which only sperm are handled such as intrauterine or artificial insemination, or those procedures in which a woman takes medicine only to stimulate egg production without the intention of having eggs retrieved.
Is Assisted Reproductive Technology a New Thing?
No. In fact, Assisted Reproductive Technology has been around in the United States since back in 1981.
What is the Most Common Method of Assisted Reproductive Technology?
IVF, or In Vitro Fertilization, is the most commonly performed method of Assisted Reproductive Technology, and is also the most well known.
What Factors Affect Success of Assisted Reproductive Technology?
In general, the age of the mother, the type of procedure, whether the egg is fresh or frozen, whether the embryo is fresh or frozen, the reason for infertility, and more.
Generally speaking, chances of success with Assisted Reproductive technology are better for women who are 40 years old or younger and in good health.
What is a Complication of Assisted Reproductive Technology?
The most common complication is multiple births. Some couples welcome multiple births, while others don’t. For the ones who don’t, this problem can usually be prevented.
Before medicine and science developed Assisted Reproductive Technology, a couple had no recourse if they failed to conceive. There was literally no hope if the problem wasn’t one that could be easily identified and corrected with hormones or surgery.
Nowadays, it seems to be almost miraculous the way people who would have formerly been childless unless they adopted can have babies of their own through the marvels of Assisted Reproductive Technology!
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