The Treatments Available to Help Infertile Couples to Have Children
There are a variety of treatments available to help infertile couples
to have children as infertility is increasingly becoming a recognised
problem. Infertility is the term used to describe the inability to
conceive or the inability to carry a pregnancy to a live child after
regular sexual intercourse without the use of contraception. If you
continue to have sexual intercourse without contraception for a year
or more and still cannot have a child you are generally deemed
infertile. Therefore if you are fertile you have the ability to have
children of your own through sexual intercourse without
contraceptives. The problems of infertility are now becoming greater
as it affects over 10% of couples hoping to have children. One in ten
of these cases of infertility are inexplicable which means that we can
not explain why they are infertile because there is no apparent
reason. When couples are told that one of them, or both, are infertile
I imagine that this takes time to sink in and for them to acknowledge
what this actually means. For most couples that were actually planning
to have a child it would be very hard to take and they would be
feeling distraught. One of the partners may feel slightly resentful to
the partner who is infertile if it had been that important for them to
have a child. The reason why people, particularly Christians, feel it
is important to have children is that it is what God wanted and it
completes the act of marriage. Without a child someone may feel less
than a whole or complete person as if something in their life is
missing and there is a gap lef...
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...eople from a
religious background may feel that doctors are taking on the role of
God by creating life when this is God's task. Some will find it
morally wrong that the child born from donated sperm or donated egg
will not know its biological parents. There will always be religious
disputes on these treatments because of what it does to the worth of
human life. However there are those who would regard these treatments
as a miracle as it enabled them to become parents. Those couples who
were previously "Suspended in childlessness" can now feel a "Sense of
the future". In no way did they feel it was there own fault or that
they were "Tampering with nature." People truly feel that they have
been blessed by God with a child finally and are obviously delighted
that these forms of treatments have been made available to them.
were always someone who got the blame put on them. Lately the blame has been
... rest of their life from the onset of puberty. There are also many complications a woman may face for both conceiving and giving birth to children in their fifties and even forties. The mother and the baby can both be harmed in the long run. Although there are women who may have lost their chances at having children in their younger ages, there are many children who are waiting to be adopted. There is no need for medical science to develop this possibility, as women are not in a society where conceiving children is the highest priority.
“Oh, it was a mistake.” People always say that, and a large number of people don’t learn from their mistakes. Same mistakes keep happening even though the world keeps on saying I promise. People just let things happen because they are selfish and full of greed. There is a book called “Night”.
capacity by a medicine.), and they cannot have a baby of their own, but instead
The people also deflected the blame to another person, here are a few examples. "Les Goodman's the one. His car started! Let's wreck it," another is "What about Steve's radio. He's the one that called them. Smash the radio. Get me a hammer. Get me something." The last one is... "It isn't the kid...it's Bob Weaver's house." There are a lot more than that, but they all have the same explanation, and that is, none of them wanted to get blamed because they saw the things that they said they were going to do to the person when they found whoever it
woman can have. Knowing that if you brought a child into the world and you
Many couples who are infertile can not handle the financial responsibility of multiple children. If a couple has seven children in one pregnancy, the financial strain can lead to chaos. There were only three sets of living septuplets in the United States in 1997, according to the Knight-Ridder's journalist Tracy A.
In my opinion, In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is one of the greatest breakthroughs in Medical Biotechnology in the last 50 years. Finding out you are infertile can be heart-breaking and distressing. After trying for long periods of time, some couples are not able to conceive. Thankfully, this problem many couples have can be fixed by In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), a process that was developed and used in Britain first more than 30 years ago by Doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. In 1978, the world’s first IVF baby was born into the world and since thousands and thousands of babies have been born every year using this method.
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The addition of a child into a family’s home is a happy occasion. Unfortunately, some families are unable to have a child due to unforeseen problems, and they must pursue other means than natural pregnancy. Some couples adopt and other couples follow a different path; they utilize in vitro fertilization or surrogate motherhood. The process is complicated, unreliable, but ultimately can give the parents the gift of a child they otherwise could not have had. At the same time, as the process becomes more and more advanced and scientists are able to predict the outcome of the technique, the choice of what child is born is placed in the hands of the parents. Instead of waiting to see if the child had the mother’s eyes, the father’s hair or Grandma’s heart problem, the parents and doctors can select the best eggs and the best sperm to create the perfect child. Many see the rise of in vitro fertilization as the second coming of the Eugenics movement of the 19th and early 20th century. A process that is able to bring joy to so many parents is also seen as deciding who is able to reproduce and what child is worthy of birthing.
In today’s world everyone is pressured to get married and have kids. Either by society, friends or family. When you’re in a relationship for a while the questions start to be asked such as “When are you getting married?” Once you’re married then the questions “When are you having kids?” are asked. Couples have an intense amount or pressure to start families. When the couple is finally ready to have kids after many failed attempts they find out they are incapable of producing children of their own. Which is the most devastating time a couple can go through. But if adoption doesn’t appeal to the couple, another option can be is surrogacy.
“In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the most common and most effective type of assisted reproductive technology (ART) to help women become pregnant” (Medical News Today). In Vitro Fertilization is a process where an egg is fertilized by a sperm outside the body, in the laboratory. Immediately after the embryo is produced, it is then positioned in the uterus. The process has 5 steps and takes about 4-6 weeks. The first step in the process is the ovarian stimulation. This step involves drugs. The hormone that’s taken over 8-14 days, fuels and stimulates the ovaries to produce more than one egg each cycle (The In Vitro Process). IVF requires several eggs because there is a chance that some eggs might not develop fine after fertilization. After that, the doctor will use ultrasound or he will test the blood in order to decide when it is necessary for him to take out the eggs. The ultrasound test is a painless scan that uses sound waves to come up with images of organs in the body. The ultrasound test looks like this:
Many individuals are looking to alternatives in child bearing, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) being one of the most popular. IVF in the United States is a costly procedure. It can cost up to $12,000 for one attempt and that is not adding the cost of additional attempts should the first one fail. There are individuals who are in debt for $60,000 in attempting to get pregnant through IVF. Fertility treatments are now a hot commodity, especially in the global marketplace. Many women are looking to oversea options in having IVF done. One major factor in women going overseas is the price tag. IVF overseas is about ¼ of the price it is in the US.
As a young adult, it may seem foolish to predict what your future family life will look like, especially in regards to children. Often times this reality is forced upon a select few, particularly homosexual couples; however, with the innovation of in vitro fertilization (IVF), a couple is met with promise and the hope of a successful family life. IVF can be described as a process by which a fetus is genetically formed in a laboratory setting. Though this process may seem unnatural in essence, it allows for a more diverse family arrangement through medical innovation. This procedure, though controversial, is seen by many as an advancement in the medical field and can be accredited to procuring a healthy child for an unfortunate family, whether
People pass the blame to other people, things or events by keeping their hands clean.