We’ve conducted a study showing that musical vibrations increase the chances that the sperm fertilises the egg, ie that music improves IVF. We’ll present these findings at the European Congress of Sterility (ESHRE) that will take place from the 7th to the 10th of July in London. The idea came thanks to you, because...
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Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Today we shared some sad news during our medical session. One of the cases we commented was Sandra P.’s. Sandra and Pedro came to our centre after 3 years of sterility due to a blockage in her fallopian tubes. They had undergone two In Vitro Fertilisation cycles at another centre and had had no success. Before...
Anecdotes that have happened to us over the years
As you know, I like to tell you about the day by day in our clinic, as we often experience genuinely funny situations. With all due respects towards our patients, I’m gonna tell you about the ones I remember. Some have happened directly to us and some belong to colleagues who work in other...
Postmortem Assisted Reproduction
I’d like to share some thoughts on postmortem assisted reproduction from an article I recently wrote for Interfunerarias. It’s about the “genetic legacy” some people leave at death: sperm or embryos that remain frozen can be used by the widow or widower depending on their personal circumstances and the law they are submitted to. It’s...
Normozoospermia: Every Man’s Wish
Normozoospermia means normal sperm. When semen shows normal characteristics in a seminogram, it’s diagnosed normozoospermic. The volume of the sample must be over 2 ml, it must contain over 20 million sperm/ml, 25% of which must have good motility and at least 4% must look normal. As specialists in infertility, we’ve been warning about...
Over 780,000 readers!
Today I’d like to thank all of you. Fertility Experiences has over 780,000 readers. I am pleasantly surprised and very happy that you show so much interest in what we do in the sterility consultations at our centre. Frequently, us doctors don’t know how to let our patients know about the way they make...
Pregnancy Test
Every day, first thing in the morning, all the gynaecologists in our sterility team get together and check the results of our patients’ pregnancy tests – many have already been sent to us due to the time difference with other countries. Let me tell you what I’ve seen today, December 20th, at 10 a.m....
Frozen Embryos: How do They Live?
As we have learned from our patients’ comments, they know very little about how frozen embryos live. Some imagine walls full of shelves with little mini-bunks, others imagine rooms like huge fridges, others little capsules placed in beehive-like structures… truth is, they’re microscopic so they virtually take up no space. In one of the...
Embryomobile
Four months have gone since our patients can watch their embryos from home whenever they want to. When we set the idea in motion, we didn’t know how they’d react… and today all the gynecologists in our sterility team have come together to comment on it… The most repeated word in the meeting was...
Over 500 children born thanks to Embryo Adoption!
Today, July 2nd 2012, we are presenting the results of our Embryo Adoption Programme at the European Reproduction Society Congress. As recorded on April 30th, 1,820 embryo transfers had given place to 550 born children and 104 more babies from 28 different countries on their way. Let me tell you how we came up...