Embryoscope is a new incubator for our small embryos that includes an incorporated video camera to film their development. In the medical field, it offers us two main advantages: First, we no longer need to remove the embryos from the incubator to watch them under a microscope. Thus, we can prevent any changes in...
The In Vitro Fertilisation Lab Is A Giant Uterus
Today, I want to show you around our IVF Lab, how we have made it into a giant uterus and how one must work in it. First, I must ask you to imagine the inside of a uterus… How lit up is it? Well, it isn’t at all, so our lab recreates its...
Toxics In Maternal Milk
Today has been very special for me professional-wise! I carried out a press conference in order to present the results of a study that was published in Revista Internacional de Andrología. We analyzed and compared the concentration of 38 toxic substances in the maternal milk of both catalan and galician women in order to...
Why Is Male Fertility Decreasing?
For obvious reasons, us women are attracted to sperm. In my case, I am dedicated to the study of sterility, so lets say it’s a healthy attraction. For this reason, I have pushed my sterility team to investigate male infertility for ten years. Institut Marquès has been studying the quality of Spanish males’ sperm...
Why Does Our Mind Only Allow Us To See The Reality That We Already Know?
Before reading this, please watch the video and try and count how many times the players in white pass the ball. Then, please read the last sentence of this text and then you can start reading. Our eyes capture images, but what our brain actually sees is conditioned by what we know and what...
It Is Always The Woman’s Fault…
One must admit that in the last decades things have changed for the better and, nowadays, we can discuss a seminogram without any incidents. Four years ago, the School of Medics in Barcelona found out that a patient tried to assault me; more specifically, he tried to throw me out the window! Since they...
Babies Come Without An Instruction Manual
Both gynecologists and pediatricians are constantly surprised that most couples haven’t changed a diaper or don’t even know about the umbilical cord up until the moment of labor. We ask ourselves: have they never taken care of a baby, even if only for a little while? Haven’t they wondered about their own belly buttons?...
Today At My Consultation
Today at my consultation I attended a 37 year old woman who wanted to get pregnant with donor sperm. She was so beautiful that before I knew it I was speaking my thoughts out loud: “Well, if you can’t get a man, I don’t know what’s going to happen!” Laughing, she told me she...
Every So Often I Find Myself With Situations That Pose Ethical Problems
In our Sterility Team we often find ourselves in situations that are ethically problematic. Luckily, we are several thinking tanks, which allows us to see the situation from many perspectives and reach a unified decision. Our basic principles: We are doctors, and by that I mean that our sole objective is to help others;...
More And More, We Have Children At Later Ages
Women with a certain socio-cultural and economic standard usually delay the moment of having children. The trend nowadays is to have fewer children and to postpone maternity. Before becoming a mother, women want to finish their studies, find a stable job, a loving partner, and an affordable flat. These aren’t easy to attain, and...