«Increased awareness of
multiple births resulting from non-IVF fertility treatments may lead to improved medical practice patterns and a decrease in the rate of multiple births,» the paper concludes.
Charles Coddington, MD, President of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) remarked, «Physicians agree that we need to reduce the numbers of
multiple births resulting from assisted reproduction.
Not exact matches
We were... well, we should have been grateful for the healthy children we had... but instead we felt as if we had escaped the misfortune... then we were reminded of Lyric, our son who passed ten days after
birth as a
result of
multiple cord injuries in utero.
In a new study commissioned by The March of Dimes Foundation and published in Fertility and Sterility, researchers from The Hastings Center and Yale Fertility Center examined the practical circumstances of infertility treatment in the US that influence patients and their doctors to make treatment choices that too frequently
result in
multiple births.
Multiple births are even more likely to
result from in vitro fertilization (IVF).
About 3 % of pregnancies
result in
multiple births, which means the odds are good you'll need to shop for gifts for twins sometime in the near future.
If it is ALL
births, including the micro preemies and abnormalities incompatible with life, high order
multiples and severe maternal illness etc, the
results are even more horrifying.
High order
multiple births are thought to be 90 % the
result of fertility enhancing drugs or IVF.
Human
multiple births can occur either naturally (the woman ovulates
multiple eggs or the fertilized egg splits into two) or as the
result of infertility treatments such as IVF (several embryos are often transferred to compensate for lower quality) or fertility drugs (which can cause
multiple eggs to mature in one ovulatory cycle).
Babies born from
multiple -
birth pregnancies are much more likely to
result in premature
birth than those from single pregnancies.
Almost 60 percent of twins, triplets, and other
multiple deliveries
result in preterm
births.
While clomiphene is a first - line treatment used to induce ovulation in women with PCOS, it has downsides — namely that in a significant number of women it does not lead to improved ovulation or live
births, and if it does induce ovulation, it frequently
results in pregnancies with
multiples who face much higher negative outcomes including death.
The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky
multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to
result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having
multiple births.
While
multiple births from IVF are a direct
result of the number of embryos that are fertilized and intentionally implanted, non-IVF therapies involve medications that stimulate ovulation and follicle growth in ways that can not be precisely predicted or controlled.
«These
results indicate that the higher autism risk may be due mainly to the large numbers of
multiple births and complications of pregnancy and delivery among children conceived with ART,» said Christine Fountain, assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University and affiliated researcher at Columbia University.
Letrozole doesn't raise estrogen like clomid and seems to
result in fewer
multiple births.
If your newborn was injured during
birth, even if they were born
multiple years ago, you may still be able to recover payment in damages as a
result, since the statute of limitations on such cases is different than other statutes in Massachusetts.
So, you may consider buying a
multiple — or twin —
birth insurance policy, which requires you to buy your premium at the time of pregnancy; if twins or more are the
result, the policy pays out in cash accordingly to compensate for the extra costs that extra babies bring.
The following risks may be considered: (a) any child whose genetic background or
birth family (
birth mother /
birth father) medical history indicates significant potential for developing physical / psychological problems, (b) a drug / alcohol exposed infant, (c) a child who has a history of
multiple foster / adoptive disrupted placements of 3 or more due to a documented medical or psychological diagnosis which directly
resulted in the disruption.