Free guide: “The decision is yours. Plan your motherhood in the future”

WeFIV, a leading center for Reproductive Medicine, launches the free fertility preservation guide “The decision is yours. Plan your motherhood in the future”, aimed at those who wish to schedule the best time to carry out a pregnancy (to download it, enter this link).” Taking into account that age directly influences the fertility of women, oocyte vitrification is one of the techniques of reproductive medicine that allows postponing motherhood. The possibility of pregnancy will be related to the age at which the oocyte vitrification was performed”, explains Dr. Fernando Neuspiller, President of WeFIV. In that sense, the guide details that the vitrification of oocytes has very high survival rates of the eggs, greater than 90%, maintaining these the same quality as at the time they were frozen. He also emphasizes that “there is no limit to keep the vitrified eggs, they can remain in this way, for an indeterminate time until the woman wishes to use them.” Vitrify eggs before the age of 35
If a woman preserves or freezes her eggs when they are “young”, at the time of deciding to have a baby in the future she will be able to use these eggs and thus have the same chances of pregnancy that she would have had at the time of preservation. “A woman under the age of 35 will need about 10 eggs to have a 60% chance of being a mom. While a woman over 35, with the same number of eggs, will have a 30% chance of achieving it, “describes the guide. It also details that “the aging of the eggs can influence the development of the embryo, and, consequently, its implantation capacity, generating difficulties to achieve pregnancy, or greater probability of spontaneous abortions. That’s why it’s important to vitrify eggs before age 35 to stop the biological clock of those eggs.” In any case, the material highlights the importance of each woman knowing her ovarian reserve to make better decisions: “if in an evaluation it is detected that the ovarian reserve is decreased, the patient can program her future with all the available information”. Reasons to perform fertility treatment
There are personal, social and medical reasons to postpone motherhood, performing fertility treatment. “For example, women who must undergo cancer treatments or some patients who suffer from endometriosis,” the guide specifies and adds: “Chemo and radiotherapy treatments can affect the reproductive system, generating a decrease or loss of fertility, preventing women from being able to carry out a pregnancy after cancer.” Therefore, “it is necessary to safeguard it, enabling a reproductive future after cancer.” The document explains that “in cases of patients with endometriomas who need surgical intervention, egg vitrification is indicated prior to surgery. In this way, saving eggs before the surgical procedure preserves fertility and increases subsequent success rates.” In addition, the guide includes a step-by-step on the preservation of fertility, deals with the issue of oocyte alterations associated with age, addresses the emotional aspect in Assisted Reproduction treatments, the social implications of postponing motherhood and contains testimonies that relate their experience in the first person. Thanks to science, technology and specialists, today it is possible to prioritize professional and social projects without the worry of delaying motherhood. You can be a mother by evaluating the most opportune moment, with your own eggs and maintaining oocyte quality.

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