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"Frozen embryos better than fresh, study shows"
Inneresting! CLICK HERE to read the article accompanying this headline.
Frozen embryos better than fresh, study shows
Using frozen instead of fresh embryos produces healthier babies, a new study shows.
Fewer of the children born from frozen embryos were twins or triplets
Infants born from embryos which were frozen and then thawed before being implanted into a woman had a higher birth weight and were less likely to suffer abnormalities.
Fewer of the children were also twins or triplets.
Multiple births are known to increase the risk of complications as well as the danger to the mother.
More than 1,200 children born between 1995 and 2006 after frozen embryo replacement (FER) were studied and compared to 17,857 children born from "fresh" embryos.
Freezing embryos allows couples to have several In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment cycles from the same egg collection, reducing the number of times that the ovaries are stimulated.
The eggs are placed in the womb three to five days after ovulation in exactly the same way as fresh embryos.
Multiple births accounted for 27.3 per cent of children born from fresh embryos, compared with 14.2 per cent when frozen embryos were used.
Babies from frozen embryos were on average 200 grams heavier on birth than those from fresh embryos, the findings presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Eshre) in Barcelona.
The proportion of low birth weight and pre-term FER children was significantly lower.
Dr Anja Pinborg, from the Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, who led the study, said: "Most encouragingly, we found no increased risk of congenital malformations in the FER group; the rate in this group was 7.1 per cent compared to 8.8 per cent where fresh embryos had been used.
"We think the reason for the differences is probably positive selection of the embryos for frozen embryo replacement.
"Only the very top quality embryos survive the freezing and thawing process.
"And you only get pregnancies in patients with lots of good embryos to freeze."
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Wow, that's pretty interesting
Its amazing what science can do…
interesting
wow
Oh, I see lots of bad jokes, coming!
~yawn~
eh…
hmmmm
OMG I LOVE FROZEN EMBRYOS AHSHAHHAHA
how is this gossip? Unless you name what actresses got pregnant by invitro…
I think that interestion. Maybe they should start freezing all of the embryos and then unfreezing them if it is making for heathier babies. Plus it lowers the chance of more then 1 babies. Twins are 1 thing but to have 3, 4 or 5 at one time is INSANE!!
It is spelt "interesting"…
And this has what to do with entertainment?
That was the name of my first band
wrong wrong wrong….this shit needs to stop. I know we are all sons of god blah blah blah but playing god in a world of evolution will lead to a world of creationism…this is pretty fucked up. why can't people just except the way things are and that some people are just not supposed to have kids.
wow that is crazy
AMEN to the last comment….if u cant have kids there are plenty to adopt!
and i still haven't found what im looking for……………
luv that song :]
Re: dmd –
I totally agree with you! This makes me feel sick.
I knew Jordan Catalano's band was the shit!
Frozen vegetables are better than fresh or canned vegetables!
I agree with ceece… why is this news on a celebrity site?
Healtheir AT BIRTH perhaps. Why is the fetus heavier? Whats causing this? Will this weight gaining trend extend beyond birth?
I love the way the media latches onto studies. One study does not make something true.
Adoption is not easy and is very very expensive. It's not like you can go to the baby store and just pick out a kid, sign a form and take it home. Folks wait YEARS to be CHOSEN by birthmothers. The adoption process is so invasive as well. It just isn't simple.
As far as "playing god" goes, I believe God gives us knowledge. Why not go to a doctor who can help you create a family? If you won't see a doctor for infertility because it's playing god, then you shouldn't see any doctors for anything. Cut your leg off sawing down trees? Oh well, God must have meant for that to happen and seeing a doctor would be "playing god." Need antibiotics? Don't do it! Playing god with illness! Man shouldn't cure anything!
That argument makes zero sense.
Thank you for posting this! My good friend is getting ready for her frozen transfer this month and I will pass along this article.
science is amazing
That´s a very interesting article. I can´t believe it´s published here.
To quote Bill Nye the Science Guy, "SCIENCE RULES!"
peeps: THAT's SO WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I SAW THE HEADLINE! ha ha!!
oh my so-called life!
Re: dmd –
It is not playing God when you are using the medical technology God gave us. If God didn't want everyone to have a baby, he would not have allowed the development of the invitro process. I am the mother of a beautify 3 year old girl who I would not have if not for this process, and we are trying for another. God gave us the technology, so we are not playing God by using it, we are doing what He wanted.
Re: klfrye –
PS
Our 14 month old son is an IVF baby.
I have to say there are some very ignorant individuals out there. Speaking as part of an infertile couple who has struggled for 7 years to conceive….we did try to take the easy route and adopt one of the "many children". A process that they told us would take 10 months….has now been over 2.5 years with a possibility of 4 more years. So I am glad that we did try the IVF route and am happy that I have 8 frozen embryos waiting to be implanted!!!
Well … I am just amazed that you would have this story. I love reading about so many thing that you post and it was nice to see something that affects a lot of people. I know .. I read some of the posts and I know that it's not related to a specific celebrity but little do they know that A LOT of them go trough IVF to have children .. just that this is such a personal issue that they don't want to share.
Well .. I am hoping this is true since I do have four little frozen embryos … I do have a little miracle after 5 years of IVF treatments and I hope that I am blessed again.
It is amazing how many people are affected by this and many don't even know it.
THANK YOU PEREZ!
Anything only the rich can afford is usually better.
Re: Nicol – Wow you don't use your mind much I can tell. God didn't not give any technology to anybody. Last time I checked it was people that created the technology we have surrounding us. It is the human brain that has gotten us to the point of living that we are in not God. The fact that people choose to believe in such a thing shows a lack of crytical thinking and allow their mind to be subdued by story telling and brain washing and the fear that if they don't believe in what they are told they will go to hell!
Re: dmd – Yeah, a lot of people shouldn't have kids (your mother being one of them), but people who want them bad enough to go through IVF are not the ones you need to worry about. Those people are usually highly educated, financially stable, and want more than anything to love a child. They have trouble conceiving becuase they spent time getting educated and making careers for themselves, thereby waiting until they were older to start trying. If we completely give up and allow nature to take its course, mankind will soon be nothing but a massive welfare state made up of the drooling illliterates who seem to be the MOST fertile (only because they're having babies at fifteen–again, like your mother).
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My son was just born and he was a frozen embryo. If it was not for IVF I would of never had a child!!!!!!!!
I am completely ADDICTED to your website. I go on at least twice a day. (while at work…LOL) YOU are the BEST. I watch ALL your SPECIALS. KEEP the gossip coming.
This is so wrong…. every think that the medical care has something to do with the high numbers on the "frozen pre-planned babies". Some people just have sex in closets for conception! eat pringles the first trimester with beer. The other ones are usually rich and on prenatal before conception and right on it from before they know they are pregnant with sea monkey…