IVF, if you want to get pregnant lie still
Filed under: IVF — Alan @ 8:48 am
A new study suggests that women who lie flat on their backs for about 15 minutes after they receive fertility treatment have a 50% greater likelihood of getting pregnant.
The new research points to movement after artificial insemination as the reason why many women fail to conceive.
In the study, 400 couples were looked at, with the results that showed only 18% of women who moved after IVF treatments became pregnant, compared to 27% of women who remained still after the treatment.
Dr. Inge Custers of the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre said that this is a significant finding and that it has been discovered that even 15 minutes of immobilization can play a large role in confirming the positive results of the study. Custers continued to say that immobilization should become standard after artificial insemination takes place for the best result.
In the past, smaller studies have looked at immobilization and artificial insemination, but this is the largest study to actually show the same result.
As part of the study half of the women were asked to lie down on their backs for fifteen minutes following IVF, while the other half were asked to get up and move around directly after treatment was finished.
Custers stated that moving immediately after IVF may cause some sperm to leak out of the uterus, or the sperm may be delayed from moving up to the fallopian tubes.
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