If a woman has difficulty getting pregnant due to age, can't she just use in vitro fertilization? ?
Although in vitro fertilization is a breakthrough in the field of health, embryology and biology in general because of its clear advantages, it is not always the answer to "I can not get pregnant." You have to evaluate the factors why women can not get pregnant.
In the view of an older woman who can not get pregnant there are several factors.
Amount of available ovules and woman's physiology.
In vitro fertilization gives you the advantage of choosing the most suitable or fittest gametes (both ovules and spermatozoa), that is, stronger and stronger. This allows to generate a healthy and resistant embryo and fetus that is more resistant to a complicated pregnancy. It also makes pregnancy easier for women by decreasing physiological complications of the fetus.
But older women have other complications, an example of this is the number of ovules available. That's right, these are not unlimited, the ovules end with time, because at one point they stop being generated and a total remains, which is lost in menstruation throughout life. Without a woman's eggs, you can not do in vitro fertilization (unless you want to have another woman's child, acting only as a rented belly).
Also the physiological conditions are important. With age, the woman's uterus may lose resistance, being unfit for the development of the embryo.
After 40 years of age, the woman suffers a decline that decreases her fertilization rate. With in vitro fertilization you can help get pregnant but the integrity of your own eggs can interfere. For this reason, ovodonation is recommended; that the woman receives cryopreserved oocytes which may be characteristic of some moment of her fertility, or may be donated by another woman. This increases the ability to be successfully fertilized.
