Children ECO

Many women who for a long time can not conceive a child and wish to undergo the IVF procedure, are interested in the question of which children are born after IVF, whether they are sterile. Let's try to give an exhaustive answer and consider the most common violations that develop in children conceived by an artificial method.

What diseases are most often observed in children born after IVF?

First of all it is necessary to say that in such a situation, as in the case of natural fertilization, the hereditary factor is the most important. In other words, if the parents of such a child had a certain kind of somatic disease, then the likelihood of their occurrence in the baby.

The children of IVF are no different from the usual, regardless of whether a long or short protocol was used. However, the risk of developing congenital pathologies is higher. Thus, the research of American scientists proved that children "from the test tube" are 2 times more likely to be born with genetic disorders - hare lip, and the risk of developing gastroenteric diseases increases 4-fold.

The general risk that a child born as a result of IVF will be ill with autism or suffer from mental retardation is slightly higher than with natural conception. Similar diseases are much more often observed with this method of artificial insemination, like ICSI. With this procedure, the sperm is introduced into the egg. If we express the ratio in percent, it looks like this: 0.0136% with natural fertilization; 0.029% for IVF, and 0.093% for ICSI.

Are violations in the reproductive system in such children?

Quite often, women are interested in statistics about whether children born after IVF are infertile and whether they can have their children.

In fact, the procedure of artificial insemination does not affect the development of the reproductive system of the child. However, it must be said that during ICSI, it is possible that the boy born as a result of the procedure will have problems with the reproductive system.

The thing is that this method is used in those cases when the quality of ejaculate does not allow conceiving a child, i.e. a man has a reproductive system. That is why a child in the future can have the same disease as his father. According to statistics, only 6-7% of male children may face the problem of paternity in the future.