PREGNANCY AND ONE FUNCTIONING OVARY

Do you have only one functioning ovary and is worried that this might affect your chance of getting pregnant?

Well, be worried no more, it turns out you have the same chance of becoming pregnant just like  any woman with two functioning ovaries. Why, because a woman does not need two ovaries to become pregnant. There are a few exceptions to this though, that can make conceiving more difficult.

Read what these exceptions are and more on this subject, from the following article.

 http://www.wisegeek.com/can-you-get-pregnant-with-one-ovary.htm

From the article:

"A woman with one ovary usually has the same chance of getting pregnant as a woman with two. There are a few exceptions that can make getting pregnant more difficult. The remaining ovarymust be attached to the remaining fallopian tube. If only an ovary and the opposite fallopian tube exist, it is much more likely that during ovulation, an egg will not pass down the fallopian tube. One with a single ovary and a single fallopian tube that are not on the same side is also at higher risk for tubal pregnancies.

If the fallopian tube and remaining ovary are both on the same side, another thing to look for is a regular period. If a woman continues to menstruate on a regular basis, this tends to be a good sign that the woman is ovulating and can get pregnant. Conversely, if periods are irregular or have stopped altogether this may signify that no ovulation is occurring, or that it is occurring on a very infrequent basis."

SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT INVITRO-FERTILIZATION

A doctor fertilizing a woman's eggs

Many of us who are dealing with infertility or have dealt with infertility, after exploring all treatment optionswith no success, will find that invitro-fertilization will be our only solution to having children.

I myself, have explored this option and got only to the counselling section, but soon after, had to abandon the process because of how exorbitant the costs were. As a result of me not having much knowledge about IVF, my blog does not include any posts about the subject.

I was doing some research the other day for appropriate material to write about, and came across this article in Medical News Today, advising that it is recommended that 15 eggs be retrieved from a woman’s ovaries, in one cycle for the invitro=fertilization process, to ensure a greater success rate of a live birth resulting.

Anyone one finding this information of particular interest, can visit the link below for more on this subject.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/224988.php

From the article

“Fertility doctors should retrieve about 15 eggs from a female's ovaries in one cycle if they want her to have the best chance of giving birth to a child after assisted reproduction technoloqy, researchers at the University of Birmingham, England wrote in the journal Human Reproduction. The authors found there is a strong link between live birth rates and the number of eggs that need to be recovered in one cycle.

The live birth rate peaked when approximately 15 eggs were retrieved, and remained about the same at between 15 and 20 eggs, and then dropped.”

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