With the accelerated pace of life, increased mental stress, coupled with the increase in diet, environmental pollution and infectious diseases, the law of “child rearing” has encountered unprecedented “torture”, many families for “child rearing Many families have suffered the pain and disappointment of having children.
As people age, their fertility decreases, and when they get pregnant too late, the quality of their eggs decreases and the chances of embryonic malformations increase. There is an optimal age range for having a baby, between 25-30 years old is the best. Before conceiving a little life, you must be prepared enough.
1. Bad lifestyle habits lead to infertility
”For infertility patients, it is very important to find the cause of the disease. Like Ms. Xie, because of a history of miscarriage, infertility for more than a year and irregular menstruation, four basic auxiliary examinations, namely semen routine, pelvic ultrasound, basic endocrine and tubal patency, are needed to understand the ovarian reserve, endometrial condition, tubal condition and male partner’s condition.” Overall, many causes of female infertility stem from poor lifestyle habits.
Intercourse during menstruation, which causes pelvic inflammatory disease and leads to infertility: from the point of view of women’s physiological health, intercourse during menstruation is undesirable. Because the cervix is normally closed, bacteria cannot enter the pelvic cavity, but during menstruation the cervix becomes flaccid and its protective capacity decreases. If you have intercourse at this time, it is easy for bacteria and blood to enter the pelvic cavity, thus causing pelvic inflammatory disease. More seriously, it can later cause endometriosis. Both of these are killers that cause infertility.
Multiple abortions can lead to cervical adhesion, tubal obstruction and secondary infertility: many girls with unwanted pregnancies refuse to go to a regular hospital for the sake of saving face, but buy their own medicine or go to a small private clinic to solve the problem. Irregular abortion operations can cause symptoms such as uterine age and pelvic inflammatory disease and tubal obstruction, which are all causes of secondary infertility. Women of childbearing age should learn to use scientific contraception, such as surgery must also be carried out in qualified professional medical institutions, thus minimizing the damage of abortion.
Stress, premature ovarian failure, ovulation disorders infertility: with increased competition in employment, many women in the workplace increased pressure, tension and anxiety, mental stress or long-term in the mental state of worry, depression or fear, the ovaries will no longer secrete female hormones or even do not ovulate, menstruation will begin to disorder or even compare, so it is not easy to get pregnant. If you have irregular periods for three months in a row, you must visit a hospital to check ovarian function.
Long-term smoking, triggering endocrine disorders leading to infertility: cigarettes contain a lot of nicotine and nicotine, which can cause vascular lesions throughout the body when they enter the body, and the uterine vessels can be affected as a result. Long-term smoking can harm the body’s entire hormone system, affecting ovarian function, leading to endocrine disorders and infertility, but also make women 2-3 years ahead of menopause, if smoking in early pregnancy is also likely to cause miscarriage. Therefore, women who have a history of smoking and are planning to become pregnant (or are already pregnant) should make a plan to quit smoking under the guidance of their doctor in order to avoid miscarriage.
2.Treatment
The total treatment for infertility includes: expectant treatment, medication, surgery and assisted reproductive technology.
In the treatment of infertility, hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive procedure that has been widely used in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, such as tubal effusion, endometriosis, endometrial polyps, uterine adhesions, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, etc. With the help of advanced medical technology, the diagnosis level and pregnancy rate are greatly improved, which helps to identify the causes of infertility and perform surgical correction.
”The combined use of hysterolaparoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility can also be said to be a special feature of our hospital. With the help of this advanced medical technology, we have helped many patients fulfill their dreams of having a baby.” Director Zhang Rongling said that Weifang Maternal and Child Health Hospital was the first to carry out hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgery in Weifang in 1995, combining the use of hysteroscope, making 2-4 small holes in the abdominal wall with the help of instruments for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, which can be used to get out of bed on the same day after the operation, leaving no incision in the abdominal wall, small trauma, little pain and fast recovery. With the help of hysteroscopy, diagnosis and treatment of endometrial lesions such as endometrial polyps, submucosal fibroids, uterine adhesions, and unexplained infertility can be performed transvaginally without incision.
3.Frequently Asked Questions
(1) How is artificial insemination an assisted conception technique?
Artificial insemination is one of the effective forms of assisted conception. It is an assisted conception technique in which the male partner collects semen by masturbation during the ovulation period of the female partner, and then sends it directly into the female reproductive tract through a special catheter after being washed and treated in the laboratory, so that the sperm can combine with the egg to be discharged to achieve fertilization and pregnancy.
(2) Who is suitable for artificial insemination by husband?
a. Men who are infertile due to sexual dysfunction, genital malformation and psychological factors that lead to inability to have sexual intercourse. Such as impotence, premature ejaculation, non-ejaculation, retrograde ejaculation, hypospadias, penile flexion deformity, severe penile spongiosclerosis, etc.
b.Male infertility due to oligospermia, weak semen, abnormal liquefaction, etc.
c. Females are sterile due to abnormal cervical mucus secretion, genital tract abnormalities and psychological factors leading to inability to have intercourse, etc. Such as incompatibility between sperm-cervical mucus, vaginitis, cervicitis or cervical erosion, abnormal cervical secretion (acidic or with anti-sperm antibodies), vaginal malformation, narrowing or spasm of the vaginal opening, narrowing of the cervical canal or neck opening, abnormal position of the uterus, vaginal spasm, etc.
d. Immune infertility, such as the presence of antisperm antibodies.
e. Infertility of unknown cause.
(3) What preparations do the couple need to make before artificial insemination?
According to the regulations governing assisted reproductive technology in China, both men and women should undergo some routine basic examinations to exclude the effects of infectious diseases on the fetus, as well as to exclude contraindications to pregnancy on the female side. The fundamental purpose is to ensure that the mother is competent for the pregnancy process, to avoid infectious diseases in the baby, to ensure the safety of the mother and the baby, and to increase the pregnancy rate. At that time, the doctor will create a medical record for the patient, sign the relevant informed consent form and tell you when to start the IUI treatment. The entire procedure is minimally painful and does not require hospitalization.
(4) What is the success rate of artificial insemination?
The success rate of IUI is about 15% to 20% per cycle, which is twice the rate of conception in a natural cycle. In addition, for patients with irregular menstruation and some special cases, we may use some medications to stimulate ovulation and adjust ovulation period before IUI to improve the conception rate for 3-6 cycles.
(5) For whom is IVF suitable?
It is suitable for women with gamete transport disorders due to various reasons, ovulation disorders, endometriosis that cannot conceive with other treatments, failure to conceive after 1 year of active treatment after surgery, low or weak spermatozoa in the male partner, immune infertility, unexplained infertility, and repeated IUI treatment failure.