The Choice of Assisted Reproductive Technology for Older Parturients

With the development of society and the improvement of living standards, more and more women choose late marriage and late childbirth. In the process of late marriage and late childbirth, there are more and more elderly mothers. However, due to the limitations of physiological conditions, elderly mothers often face difficulties in pregnancy. Fortunately, the progress of modern medicine has also provided some opportunities for elderly mothers to have children, and some assisted reproductive technologies can be used to achieve their fertility aspirations.

IVF technology

Test tube baby technology is a common and effective assisted reproductive technology, which is a common choice for elderly mothers. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is used to combine eggs and sperm in the laboratory, cultivate them into embryos, and then transplant them into the female uterus. This technology can break through the difficult problem of natural pregnancy of elderly women and improve the success rate of pregnancy.

In IVF technology, elderly mothers can choose in vitro fertilization (IVF) or minimally invasive single sperm injection (ICSI). Among them, IVF will fit eggs and sperm together for culture, and then select the best one from multiple embryos to transplant into the uterus. ICSI injects a single sperm into the egg to increase the chance of pregnancy. According to the actual situation and the doctor's suggestions, the elderly mothers can choose their own methods for IVF.

Egg donation

For the elderly women, the decline in the quality and quantity of eggs is a major problem. To solve this problem, elderly women can choose to accept egg donation. Egg donation is to take out the eggs of young women and transfer them to the uterus of elderly women after fertilization. In this way, older women can use the eggs of young women to achieve the goal of pregnancy and childbirth.

A series of factors need to be taken into consideration when older women choose to accept egg donation, including the matching degree of donors, the quality of eggs and the technical level of hospitals. Therefore, it is very important to choose a hospital with good reputation and strong strength.

Embryo transfer technology

For those elderly women who do not have enough eggs or sperm for laboratory fertilization, embryo transfer technology is a very effective assisted reproductive technology. This technology can achieve the goal of pregnancy and fertility by transplanting donated embryos into the uterus of elderly mothers.

Embryo transfer technology can be divided into frozen embryo transfer and fresh embryo transfer. Frozen embryo transfer is to culture and store the fertilized eggs after freezing, thaw and transfer them to the uterus at an appropriate time. The fresh embryo transfer is to transfer the embryo directly into the uterus at the right time for the culture of the fertilized egg. According to the specific situation and the doctor's suggestions, the elderly women can choose their own embryo transfer technology.

Ovulation promoting agent treatment

For older women, the increase in age is often accompanied by a decline in ovulation function. In order to increase the chance of natural pregnancy, elderly women can take ovulation promoting agents. Ovulation promoting agent is a kind of drug that can stimulate ovarian ovulation and help elderly women increase the possibility of ovulation.

Ovulation promoting agent therapy can be divided into two ways: surgical treatment and drug treatment. Ovarian plastic surgery or ovarian acupuncture is generally used for surgical treatment to stimulate ovulation through surgery. The drug treatment is to stimulate ovulation by oral or injection of ovulation promoting agents. The elderly puerpera can choose appropriate ovulation promoting agent treatment according to their own conditions.

Summary

Older women face difficulties in pregnancy, but the progress of modern medicine provides them with a variety of choices of assisted reproductive technology. Test tube baby technology, egg donation, embryo transfer technology and ovulation promoting agent treatment are all assisted reproductive technologies that can be adopted by elderly mothers. However, when choosing specific technologies and hospitals, older mothers need to fully understand their own conditions and make the right choice under the guidance of professional doctors.