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24.01.2019 09:37:39
What 40 years ago was a revolution has become everyday practice in medicine. Since then, more than 5 million children have been born around the world with the help of reproductive medicine through artificial insemination, that is, without sexual intercourse. According to statistics, in Germany in every large school class there is a child who was given life by using this procedure. It is estimated that in Germany almost every seventh married couple is childless not at their own will. Depending on what the cause of infertility is, various methods of artificial insemination are used. The statistics of the German IVF Registry takes into account two methods:
Artificial insemination helps only partly those who decide to have a child too late. “We can say that on average, the chances of pregnancy at the age of 41-42 years old are 15%,” says Ulrich Heilland, Chairman of the Federal Association of Reproductive Medicine Centres in Germany. Starting from the age of 44, the chances are less than 8%.
According to the German IVF Registry, complications in the case of IVF and ICSI methods taken into account are very rare. Severe ovarian hyperstimulation due to the administration of hormones is found only in 0.2% of cases of artificial insemination. In the case of such an overreaction, there is a noticeable enlargement of the ovaries with the accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity (ascites) and sometimes in the lungs.
Now it has become fashionable to freeze one’s own eggs at the age of about 20. Surveys in Germany have shown that, nevertheless, this opportunity is not used by women aged 20, but mostly by older women. However, not only women become older, but also, naturally, their eggs. Therefore, the likelihood that in the case of a later artificial insemination pregnancy will not occur is significantly higher in comparison with the eggs frozen by young women.
