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5 Myths About In Vitro Fertilization

When a couple is faced with a diagnosis of infertility, and their treating doctor recommends In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) as the appropriate treatment for the search for pregnancy, the fears associated with this procedure begin to invade every thought and emotion that is related to the situations that may arise because of this technique.

Will I have a multiple pregnancy?, Are there negative effects on my body?, How safe is the pregnancy?, Is it painful?, are some of the questions that go through the minds of those patients who need this technique to make the dream of being parents come true.

While it is true that there are multiple factors that must be analyzed with the specialist when deciding to start IVF treatment, there are also many myths associated with this assisted reproduction technique, which we will clarify below:

FALSE

A few years ago, this treatment was related to multiple pregnancies because it was necessary to bring several embryos into their mother’s uterus to improve the chances of success. However, today we have better embryo culture techniques that allow us to take the embryos to stages of better development, making possible a better embryo selection and an embryo transfer with a greater chance of success. In this way, it is no longer important to bring several embryos into the uterus to achieve a good success rate. It is important to clarify that the transfer of several embryos does not guarantee a multiple pregnancy either. The possibility or risk of two embryos implanting, when we transfer more than one, is 20%.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL

IVF is a treatment that consists of 4 key moments that can generate different reactions in the patient, however, it is not a procedure that requires prolonged rest or prevents the normal development of activities.

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