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What is Surrogacy ? According to artificial Reproductive Technique guidelines, Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman agrees to a pregnancy, achieved through assisted reproductive technology in which neither of the gametes belong to her or her husband with the intention of carrying it to term and handling over the child to the person or persons for whom she is acting as surrogate and surrogate mother is a woman who agrees to have an embryo generated from the sperm of a man who is not her husband and the oocyte of another woman implanted in her to carry the pregnancy to full term and deliver the child to its biological parents. Who can be a Surrogate Mother? Has given birth to and be raising that child This is the number one requirement to become a surrogate mother with Surrogate Alternatives as well as all IVF clinics. The reason is that once a woman gives birth, it shows she is able to become pregnant and establishes fertility. The IVF clinic will also require OB records from ...

Routine Antenatal Checkup Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care is a type of preventive healthcare, with the goal of providing regular check-ups that allow doctors or midwives to treat and prevent potential health problems throughout the course of the pregnancy while promoting healthy lifestyles that benefit both mother and child. During check-ups, pregnant women will receive medical information over maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins. Recommendations on management and healthy lifestyle changes are also made during regular check-ups. The availability of routine prenatal care, including prenatal screening and diagnosis, has played a part in reducing maternal death rates and miscarriages as well as birth defects, low birth weight, neonatal infections and other preventable health problems. During your pregnancy, you’ll be offered a range of tests, including blood tests and ultrasound scans. These tests...

What is OVARIAN CYST ? Ovaries are a woman's reproductive organs that make female hormones and release an egg from a follicle (a small fluid-filled sac) each month. The follicle is usually about 2-3 cm when measured across (diameter) but sometimes can be larger. An ovarian cyst is a larger fluid-filled sac (more than 3 cm in diameter) that develops on or in an ovary. A 2 cyst can vary in size from a few centimetres to the size of a large melon. Ovarian cysts may be thin-walled and only contain fluid (known as a simple cyst) or they may be more complex, containing thick fluid, blood or solid areas. There are many different types of ovarian cyst that occur before the menopause, examples of which include:  A simple cyst, which is usually a large follicle that has continued to grow after an egg has been released; simple cysts are the most common cysts to occur before the menopause and most disappear within a few months  An endometrioma - endometriosis, where cells of the lini...

FIBROIDS OVERVIEW Fibroids are growths of the uterus, or They are also called uterine leiomyomas or myomas. The uterus is made of muscle, and fibroids grow from the muscle. Fibroids can bulge from the inside or outside of the uterus Fibroids are not cancerous and are not thought to be able to become cancerous. Fibroids are very common. Approximately 80 percent of women will have fibroids in their lifetime, although not all of these women have bothersome fibroid symptoms. Treatments are available for women who have fibroid-related problems like heavy menstrual bleeding, pain or pressure in the pelvis, or problems with pregnancy or infertility. Fibroid Causes The cause of fibroids is unknown. Fibroids seem to respond to the female hormones estrogen and progesterone; some women have specific genes that may predispose them, and their families, to fibroids, and lifestyle and reproductive factors influence fibroids. Some fibroids grow with time and others shrink. Fibroids can als...