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Advice for New Fertility Patients

I am now, more than ever before, meeting many people / couples who are about to embark on their IVF journey and I can see it in their faces even before they confide that they are scared out of their wits! They have met with their fertility specialist and been given lots of information about possible treatment options. Thier heads are spinning and minds buzzing with the information they have just been given.

At this very early stage, it is virtually impossible for anyone (even your doctor) to predict what course of action will be taken. There are numerous tests which need to be performed to screen for any possible causes of infertility or underlying medical conditions that may have an adverse effect of reproductive heath of the patient. If it is a couple seeking treatment then both parties must be screened and tested.

There is an endless amount of information on possible causes of infertility and treatment options, that to say it can be overwhelming is an understatement. When I speak to people / couples in this early stage, I remind them that they need not to become overwhelmed by all this information.  It is so easy to get bamboozled by big words and medical jargon that you feel like a passenger on a freight train that is going way too fast to a destination unknown and there is no way off!.

My advices to new fertility patients is try to relax and just try to remain focussed on the objective. It is vital that you establish a good relationship with your doctor and feel comfortable asking question – no matter how trivial or silly they may seem. Have faith in your doctor and his ability to recommend the appropriate treatment options for the best possible outcome. Don’t stress out about things like injections or hospital procedures (if these have been brought up in conversation with your doctor), as this may not be necessary.

At the early stage, patients need to just focus on what is ahead of them, right now at this very moment. If you have been sent off for blood tests, then don’t spend the next week stressing about the results. If hormone injections have been mentioned, don’t freak out now about who is going to do them, how much they might hurt or what side effects you may have. Worrying unnecessarily about these things is not of any benefit.

Digest the information given to you as best you can. Be open with your partner and discuss your thoughts and feelings. I cannot stress enough how vital partner support is. Fertility treatment can seem very daunting, particularly at this early stage so it is important that couples can talk openly about their feelings. Lastly, be careful about information you come across in your own research – you don’t always know where the information came from or how accurate it is.

I know it is easy for me to write about this topic and give advice now that my IVF journey is well behind me, but let me assure you – I have been where you are right now. I have felt the same anxiety and uncertainty that you too are feeling, but rest assured it is COMPLETELY NORMAL! If you weren’t a little anxious or nervous about the uncertainty of what may lay ahead for you then you would be abnormal.

Jenni Salisbury, author of ‘Little Blessings’ – A story of her battle with infertility and the quest for a family. 

Surrogacy - seven years on service market

Seven years on a service market – is it a lot or is it not enough? Specialists of the BioTexCom Reproductive Medical Center are used to count time using not a calendar, but a number of happy clients leaving the clinic with a little baby.

Old tales narrate about a stork, which brings babies. Even a schoolchild knows today that babies don’t grow in cabbages and a stork has no obligations to deliver newborns. An in vitro fertilized child is a reality, a tale becomes a true story. The medieval alchemists would have been surprised if they had known that instead of the gold we will be searching for ways to give life.

The modern science makes something more important, it comes for help to despaired people, who lost their hope for a happy family, where healthy children are born and bought up.

Surrogate motherhood is one of the possibilities to have a genetic related posterity and for some couples this is the only one possibility at all.

Medical Center BioTexCom is proud that owing to its efforts and devotion a lot of couples did found happiness. The miracle is possible thanks to a “good fairy” – that how a surrogate mother is called by a genetic parents.

A surrogate mother is a so called hero, who decided to help an infertile couple. Sometimes a surrogate mother has to be from another country, like in a tale “from overseas”, but it is worth going and worth waiting. A miracle has no limits.

Lately, as in Ukraine, so in other countries there sounds child laughter – 800 babies has gone with their parents to Italy, 150 babies to Germany, 100 little ones to UK and about 120 kids to France. It is not just statistics, it is a big family, united by BioTexCom.

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Decide between two things: high European service or a third world country and child with guarantee

French medicine is considered to be one of the best ones in the world. For many years it takes the 3^rd -4^th position after the U.S.A, Germany and Switzerland. Nevertheless France cannot to boast of high level of reproductive medicine. In France, success rate of one treatment cycle with donor eggs ranges up to 20%. Donation is carried out on a non-commercial basis in France. Therefore, there is little or nothing those wishing to share their eggs. Demand for donor eggs is quite high. Therefore, process of eggs selection is not perfect and quality of biological material is low. France also has a system that helps to compensate lack of donor oocytes. One patient shared her experience and told us that when she visited one of the French clinics she was asked to invite her friend who will become a cells donor for other infertile couples. Woman told this story is 39 years old. Most often, patients after 40 need donation programs. And their friends are not 25 years old girls but women out of reproductive age and with poor quality eggs. Non-profit basis of donation causes shortage of qualitative donor eggs. Donors do not receive any reward for serious risk they run agreeing to give their eggs. Since eggs is taken under general anesthesia, by operative treatment doctors puncture ovaries. This operation does not exclude death, at best - loss of ovaries. So many girls do not agree to risk their life and limb for the benefit of strangers. But if donation procedure is commercial much more young girls (with qualitative, young oocytes) will become donors and IVF program with donor eggs will have more successful results.

Another Frenchwoman said that after repeated failed IVF attempts with donor eggs doctor advised her to visit Spanish clinic and gave a list of recommended centers of reproductive medicine. Due to the lack of biological material and its poor quality French gynecologists often send patients into Spanish clinics. There commerce of donor eggs, sperm and embryos is also prohibited by local law. But Spain centers of human reproduction buy donor cells of high quality and transport them in a frozen form (cryopreservation). At home Spanish doctors unfreeze eggs. This process negatively affects eggs quality moreover Spain specialists divide oocytes between patients. In good Spanish clinics, such as, Bernabeu institute, Institut Marquès, Dexeus and IVF Spain clinics, professionals achieve 30 % success rate per one treatment cycle.

Not only developed European countries such as France and Spain have taken on board reproductive medicine, in particular egg donation, but lame duck states as well. India and Ukraine conduct lion's share of reproductive programs. These are the third world countries with underdeveloped medicine and low economy level but they take leading positions in the reproductive medicine sphere. Donation is paid in these two states and in such way many local girls agree to help patients who need it and at the same time earn money for own needs. At an average one donor of three is chosen. Such woman has high quality eggs. Moreover, doctors in India and Ukraine use only fresh biological material and do not divide eggs that multiply chances for successful result. Clinics which specialize just in egg donation give a guarantee of a positive result and refund money in case of failure. Ukrainian center for human reproduction BioTexCom is among such medical institutions. Patients come there from all over the world and even after 12 failed IVF attempts in European countries receive positive result in BioTexCom after the first - second attempt. But if you visit Ukrainian clinic you will have to wait. We have got into touch with BioTexCom center and asked how long patients have to wait to start surrogacy program or IVF with donor eggs. In response, we heard that on average patients wait in line about six months. But patient receives guarantee that he will go home with a child. In India and Ukraine, egg donation and surrogacy programs are conducted on a commercial basis, i.e. donors and surrogate mothers receive monetary compensation and go through detailed medical examination. As a result, only qualitative biological material and healthy surrogate mothers participate in programs. Due to this fact clinics have high success rates. India and Ukraine maintain the lead in surrogacy programs. And it is despite the fact that in these countries you will not find European service, balanced infrastructure and advanced medicine.

Medical centers that function in these weak states have already been competing with foreign counterparts, especially in success rate. Thus, according to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, on average 40 % of 100 treatment cycles in India and Ukraine are successful. This rate is even higher than European one. But Europeans see Ukraine as politically instable, corrupt country with the shadow economy. India in their opinion is a fall behind time, wild country with incompetent doctors. Such countries smell fishy and don’t have credibility in health services, especially reproductive medicine. Image of the country stops foreigners who need services of reproductive medicine. Europeans will rather visit small clinic, with a low level of quality in Spain than center with high success rate but situated in Ukraine or India. As there they will not find elements of high service which they are accustomed to.

Most often foreigners are interested in eggs donation (80%) and surrogacy (15%). Taking into account popularity and success of these programs India and Ukraine have express conditions to increase commercial attractiveness of this area. And European countries, meanwhile, defend interests of their clinics by creating additional barriers to their citizens who use assisted methods of reproductive medicine abroad. For example, officials complicate the process of registration for children who were born abroad with the help of surrogate mother.

As one can see, market of reproductive medicine service is rather wide-ranging. And it's no accident - according to the World Health Organization, number of infertile couples all over the world has been growing. And demand breeds supply. You get to choose. (http://newseurope.info/)

Penny wise and pound foolish

Surrogate mothers like cartoon characters Chip and Dale race to rescue. But not with the aim to save the whole world and only infertile couples. It is a natural desire of any person to have children, and especially if it is a long-established family. Infertility diagnosis does not deprive of this desire. Surrogate mothers are a kind of women who have chosen carrying children for other people as a well-paid job. "Looking for a surrogate mother", "Will become a surrogate mother for you", "Surrogacy with guarantee" etc. Today this procedure is so widespread that you can easily find a great number of information you need in the Internet, mass media, and even on the street advertisement board. But as it happens - the greater demand the lower quality. So how to find a good surrogate mother with whom you will not have problems?

The first and fundamental rule for those who want to use services of surrogate mother is to visit only specialized accredited clinics which operate in accordance with relevant rules and regulations of the country in which they function. But it happens so that infertile couples mistakenly think that they can solve this problem on their own and start looking for surrogate mother with the help of internet resources and various ads (http://mother-surrogate.info/beware-of-cheating/). Just such people are the best targets for swindlers! If you think that you can negotiate with surrogate mother and pay for this service the true price it will not always turn out as you want.

Legal clinics check surrogate mothers in details, in particular their physical and psychological health. Carrying out these procedures by yourself you risk missing out on important medical tests or to be had that the surrogate mother had passed all inspections. She cannot pass them at all or just forge the results. The following aspect is an agreement between all sides (in a perfect world these are clinic, surrogate mother and biological parents). In medical centers professional lawyers constitute an appropriate contract which contains all the obligations and rights of all parties. It is all but impossible to do it without specialist’s participation. Thus, not taking these items into account you become a perfect victim for the fraudulent surrogate mothers. During pregnancy they can dream up various non-existent problems that will require more money. And after the child’s birth such surrogate mothers may refuse to give the baby until you fulfill all their terms. And these requirements can continue indefinitely while your biological child will grow in someone else's family getting used to other parents. In this case you will not be able to prove your rightness because you have no necessary documents and evidences.

Using the help of a surrogate mother you always have to remember that it is a matter of life and death for you but just a business for some women. And do not think that organizing surrogacy program by yourself you save some money or do it more efficiently. The right and best decision is to choose a clinic with a good reputation and high quality of work. As of quality-price ratio Ukraine, for example, is one of the best countries in which you will find a good service, positive result of the program and an affordable price. In this case, clinic is held fully liable for all stages of the program. Therefore, workers of medical institution are also interested in good result. In addition, going to the center of reproductive medicine you pay a fixed sum and do not run the risk to overpay or pay for nothing, as it happens in the case of an independent search for a surrogate mother.

If you are not a doctor you will not know details of the surrogacy procedure. As a result outside the clinic you can be said that, for example, embryo replanting was made, although in fact it will not be so. Surrogate mother even cannot be pregnant at all, but urging otherwise upon you. In general, as you can see, there are a lot of ways to be hippoed by surrogate mothers. So do not put everything on the line and visit only proven centers of reproductive medicine and do not seek help where there is none of it.

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