What is the difference between artificial and test tube? The pros and cons of test tube babies

Many people mistake artificial insemination for IVF. Although they are both ways to prepare for pregnancy, there are actually big differences between them. IVF, which is becoming more and more popular, also has its pros and cons. How to choose between them? Let's first understand the two clearly.

What is the difference between artificial insemination and IVF?

1. Differences in definitions

Artificial insemination refers to a method in which male semen is artificially injected into the female cervix or uterine cavity to assist conception.

In vitro fertilization is a series of techniques that use reproductive assisted technology to manipulate sperm, eggs and embryos in vitro and then send them into the human body to help infertile couples have children. It includes artificial insemination, fallopian tube gamete transfer and in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer. The pregnancy process of in vitro fertilization is the same as that of normal pregnancy.

2. Different applicable groups

Artificial insemination is mainly used for infertility caused by male factors, such as severe hypospadias, retrograde ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, azoospermia, oligospermia, asthenospermia, and semen liquefaction disorder. Artificial insemination can also be used for infertility caused by some female factors, such as vaginismus, small cervix, abnormal cervical mucus, poor post-coital test, etc. In addition, there are some special cases, such as infertility caused by immunological reasons, when both husband and wife are heterozygous for the same autosomal recessive genetic disease or the male suffers from an autosomal dominant genetic disease, artificial insemination can also be used to obtain pregnancy and avoid the birth of unhealthy offspring.

IVF is suitable for people: IVF is mainly used for infertility caused by women, such as severe fallopian tube disease, endometriosis, immune infertility, anti-sperm antibodies in the male semen or female cervical mucus, such as unruptured follicle syndrome, etc.

IVF is also suitable for a small number of male infertility patients caused by oligospermia, asthenospermia, and teratospermia. Patients with genetic diseases who need pre-transplantation diagnosis or infertility patients who have been treated for a long time can use IVF.

Is it good to have in vitro fertilization?

What are the benefits of IVF?

The advantages of IVF are mainly as follows:

1. IVF is an option for infertility due to fallopian tube obstruction or removal. Not only that, there are many patients with unexplained infertility, or the cause of infertility has been identified but cannot be cured. IVF is also an absolute indication for them.

2. IVF surpasses other assisted reproductive methods, simplifies pregnancy, and can make all the processes before implantation in women controllable. Infertile couples who meet the IVF indications can achieve pregnancy through this method as long as they can provide healthy sperm and mature eggs and have good uterine conditions.

3. Test-tube babies are formed by sperm and eggs of both husband and wife after 1-4 days of in vitro fertilization, and then enter the mother's uterus. The difference between natural conception and in vitro fertilization is that one is fertilized in the body, and the other is fertilized in vitro by external forces. It will eventually enter the mother's uterus. Because test-tube babies will get enough nutrition and protection in the uterus, they will be as healthy as normal children after birth.

Although IVF has certain disadvantages, it is still necessary as a "means" for infertile couples to realize their baby plans. And the success rate of IVF is about 30%, so before IVF transplantation, you should improve and regulate your body, especially the quality of male semen is very important. Men can take Jinghuosu to improve and increase sperm quality and increase the success rate of IVF.

What are the disadvantages of IVF?

In order to get more eggs, IVF often requires the use of drugs to stimulate eggs to induce women to ovulate as soon as possible. And this process of stimulating eggs often uses some hormone drugs. These hormones can easily cause maternal hormone disorders, which may lead to premature menopause, premature ovarian failure, etc. In layman's terms, it causes women to age prematurely and greatly increases the possibility of suffering from ovarian, breast, uterine cancer and other cancers. And if the patient's fallopian tubes are not completely blocked, the embryos transplanted into the uterine cavity may flow into the fallopian tubes and cause ectopic pregnancy. Sometimes, even intrauterine and ectopic pregnancy may occur. Therefore, it should be highly valued and diagnosed and treated as soon as possible to avoid the risk of heavy bleeding.

Since IVF has a strict range of indications, not every patient can do it if they want to. The infertile population suitable for IVF mainly has infertility caused by ineffective treatment such as fallopian tube obstruction, endometriosis, sperm abnormalities, etc. Both men and women who want to undergo IVF surgery must be physically and mentally healthy, without genetic diseases. The general age of the woman should not exceed 40 years old, and the man should not exceed 55 years old. If the woman is too old, the miscarriage rate after pregnancy will inevitably be higher, and the possibility of fetal malformation will be greater than that of young people. The complications during pregnancy will increase. In addition to the above problems, older infertile women who undergo IVF often respond poorly to ovulation induction and are forced to give up treatment in the first stage. The quality of the eggs is relatively poor, the pregnancy rate is low, and it is not easy to succeed.

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