Infertility is defined as the absence of pregnancy after about 1 year of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse in a couple of childbearing age. If the partner’s age is over 35 years, the couple will have to resort to the specialized consultation after 6 months of trying.
Some lifestyle factors can affect fertility: smoking, obesity, alcohol or drug use, work in a toxic environment, stress. Sometimes the specialist may recommend changing your lifestyle to improve fertility.
It is possible that after some time of treating the problem of infertility, your consulted doctor can suggest you to opt for surrogacy.
Depending on the situation, the embryo carried by the surrogate mother can come from different gametes and by different techniques, which implies different genetic links:
Artificial insemination (or IUI: intrauterine insemination)
The surrogate mother is inseminated by the sperm of the future father. We then speak of “procreation for others”. The male gamete is that of the intended father, the female gamete that of the surrogate mother.
Artificial insemination is the oldest medically assisted reproduction technique. It is simple in principle and overall provides a pregnancy rate of 10 to 15% per treatment cycle.
Normally, women produce a mature oocyte in the ovaries each cycle, which is released in the tubes. After intercourse, the sperm pass from the vagina to the uterus through the cervix and then go up into the tubes and it is at this level that the fertilization of the oocyte by the sperm occurs.
The purpose of artificial insemination done by surrogacy in Thailand is to increase the chances of meeting the sperm and the egg.
Proper scheduling of the procedure is one of the most important success factors. The optimal time is shortly before ovulation or even at the time of ovulation. If the time has been well calculated, most fertility experts believe that a single insemination is enough (the pregnancy rate does not increase if two inseminations are performed on the same cycle).
Menstrual cycle monitoring and insemination scheduling can be done by transvaginal ultrasound. We can assess the number and size of ovarian follicles, the appearance of the endometrium, the presence of cysts, fibroids, and other associated conditions.
In vitro fertilization
The embryo carried by the surrogate mother is the result of in vitro fertilization (IVF) carried out either with the oocyte and the sperm of the intended parents, or with the sperm of the future father and an oocyte from a donation if the intended mother is unable to provide it or if it is a homosexual couple, either an oocyte from the intended mother and sperm from the father, or finally gametes resulting from a double donation of oocytes and sperm (the child will then have no genetic link with the intended parents).
In vitro fertilization in surrogacy treatment Thailand involves summarizing in 4 main stages:
- ovarian stimulation;
- the collection of male and female sex cells (gametes);
- fertilization (either by conventional technique or by ICSI);
- Transfer of embryos to the uterus.
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