According to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics, in our country there are now more mothers aged 40 than 27 years old, which means that 10% of babies born in Spanish territory are born to a woman who has already entered in the country. family.
Although the causes of late motherhood are varied and can range from professional and economic reasons to personal choices, it is impossible to understand this phenomenon without the improvement of assisted reproduction techniques which have made it possible to increase the window of female fertility.
In addition to in vitro fertilization, there are other techniques, such as embryo biopsy, which make it possible to exclude chromosomal alterations. “It has been shown that in women over 40, 80% of the embryos generated present some form of abnormality. Therefore, carrying out a study of embryos in an in vitro fertilization cycle with one’s own eggs shortens the time until a pregnancy is achieved, as well as the abortion rate. in the words of Dr. Belén Acevedo, head of the Assisted Reproduction Unit at Rey Juan Carlos University Hospital.
Be a mother with your own eggs
One of the most common myths about late motherhood is that you can only become a mother after the age of 40 through an egg donation process, which is not true.
“A woman of forty years old can get pregnant spontaneously, the problem is that most patients of this age have more difficulty getting pregnant and have a greater risk of miscarriage and chromosomal alterations in their offspring, but this does not is not impossible. » says Dr. Acevedo, who answers other myths about assisted reproduction in this episode.
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