Stress affects fertility. Don’t worry, be happy!

Stress can cause women infertility. Such is a result of the new study. It explains some cases when couples were diagnosed a case of infertility for no discernible reason. The problem can become a vicious cycle: people are nervous because conception does not begin for a long time, and it does not happen just because the couple is under stress.

Doctors have noticed that there is a relationship between the total stress of everyday life and infertility. Infertile women are always recommended to avoid stress situations. According to the statistic about one of 7 couples has fertility problems. About quarter of them do not receive any medical explanation of such problem. Their diagnosis is "unexplained infertility".

Research group Courtney Denning-Johnson Lynch gathered saliva samples of 373 women who have just started trying to conceive a child in a natural way. Then scientists measured the level of alpha - amylase enzyme, marker of stress in these samples. Total scientists observed 501 women at the age of 18 - 40.

After a year of regular unprotected sex about 13 % of couples could not get pregnant. Third of women who had the highest alpha - amylase rate were in the infertile group.

According to Dr. Lynch, stress may be responsible for some cases of unexplained infertility. Understanding of this fact can help couples to take the necessary measures. He says "If you have some trouble conceiving a baby during about five - six months it is reasonable to seek some way to relieve stress. It is known that yoga, meditation, or just a normal daily training significantly reduce stress. It’s better to try to find the method that suits your lifestyle best of all".

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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/)