Embryo donation treatment, egg donation or use of donor sperm requires parents to consider to tell their children, or not, where they come from. This issue is one of the main questions arising in patients facing a pregnancy through these techniques. There are patients who decide never to tell their children and others decide to do…
Embryo adoption is an assisted reproduction treatment that gives the opportunity to become a mother to many patients. Although, for many could be considered the “last option,” the results obtained place it at the forefront in terms of probability of success. Embryo adoption consists in thawing and transferring to the uterus of the recipient woman, frozen…
Embryo donation is the procedure which consists of thawing and transferring, to the recipient woman’s uterus, embryos from couples who have gone through IVF or egg donation and, after having obtained a pregnancy, have donated their surplus frozen embryos for reproductive purposes. 1 For which patients is embryo donation indicated? Generally, couples or patients who…
The donation of embryos is becoming more common in fertility clinics. For couples, who opt to receive donated embryos (embryo donation), it is very important to know certain aspects of the donors. Although the Law of Assisted Reproduction does not allow to give personal data, in this post we explain who the donors are, why…
Questions about the embryo transfer are generally related to the preparation and the technique followed. The procedure of embryo transfer is simple, but there are several details that we like to take care about, in order to make the embryo transfer as smooth as possible and minimize the impact that any external factor might have…
The success in embryo freezing and thawing depends, mainly, on the quality of the embryos transferred and the age of the woman at the time of freezing. Other factors, such as the day chosen to freeze the embryos, embryo survival, technique used to freeze them, time they have been frozen, or the number of embryos…