Infertility

For many couples, the desire for one's own child at the top of the list. But this desire can not always be met simply and easily: About 15 percent of all infertile couples in Germany. If within one year of unprotected intercourse despite not result in a pregnancy, is referred to as sterility. This is the cause of the infertility not only in women. Instead, it is assumed that each is found in 40 percent of the cases the reason for the wife or the husband and in 20 percent of cases in both. Sterility of a woman is referred to as infertility and in men than infertility.

The causes of infertility can be very different. They range from a lack of ovulation on diseases of the genital organs to environmental influences such as stress and smoking. As numerous as the reasons for infertility are so different are the ways to get the desire for a child yet to be fulfilled. For psychological reasons like stress for example, can help relaxation techniques and acupuncture treatments, diseases of the genital organs can be treated adequately.

Can not the sterility can be treated, many couples opt for adoption. There is also the possibility of artificial insemination. This refers to various processes in which a child is not natural, therefore, conceived by sexual intercourse. Depending on which partner are the causes of infertility, the applied techniques differ significantly. In a homologous insemination of the semen of the male is introduced artificially into the woman's body. Is a man's sperm quality is not enough, the seeds can also be used of a strange man (heterogeneous insemination). In in-vitro fertilization (IVF) at first egg from the woman's ovaries are removed, brought together in the laboratory with sperm from the husband and, after a few days in the womb. Especially when the sperm of the man in their number and mobility are very limited, the intra-cytoplast-sperm injection (ICSI) are performed. With this method, the retrieved oocytes of women using a micropipette directly with individual sperm cells fertilized and implanted in the uterus after two days.

As different as the procedures used are so different in their success rates. The chance of a homologous insemination to become pregnant is, for example, about five to ten percent. In IVF and ICSI, it rises to about 40 percent.