About Fertility Treatment

There are many kinds of fertility treatments that can help women get pregnant. Talk to your provider to find out if one is right for you.

Fertility treatment can cause complications, like getting pregnant with twins or more, having premature birth and having a baby with birth defects.

If you need fertility treatment, there are ways to help you get pregnant with just one baby. This can help reduce the risk of pregnancy complications.

Things like smoking and weight can affect your fertility. Making certain changes in your life may help you get pregnant without fertility treatment.

What is fertility treatment?

Many women need special medical treatment to help them get pregnant. This kind of treatment is called fertility treatment.

If you’ve been trying to get pregnant for 3 or 4 months, keep trying. It may just take more time, even longer than you think it should. You may want to think about fertility treatment if:

You’re younger than 35 and have been trying to get pregnant for at least a year.

You’re 35 or older and have been trying to get pregnant for at least 5 months.

Talk to your health care provider if you think you may need fertility treatment.

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How can you find out if you need a fertility treatment?

If you think you and your partner may need treatment to help you get pregnant, here’s what you can do:

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Talk to your health care provider. You can see a prenatal care provider, like an obstetrician or a midwife, who takes care of pregnant women. Or you can see a fertility specialist (also called a reproductive endocrinologist). This is a doctor who’s an expert in helping women get pregnant.

Tell your provider about your family health history. This is a record of any health conditions and treatments that you, your partner, and everyone in your families have had. Be sure to tell your provider if you’ve been pregnant before and about any children you’ve had.

Make changes in your life that may help you get pregnant without treatment.

For example, things, like smoking, being over- or underweight, and taking certain medicines, can affect your fertility and make it harder for you to get pregnant. Even using a hot tub can affect fertility! You may be able to make changes in your life without fertility treatment that can improve your chances of getting pregnant.

Keep track of your periods to find out when you ovulate. Ovulation is when your ovary releases an egg into your fallopian tubes. The egg then travels down the tubes to your uterus. If you have sex and the egg gets fertilized by sperm, you’re pregnant. To find out when you ovulate, write down when your period starts each month and how long it lasts. Or use our online ovulation calendar. Knowing when you ovulate helps you know the best times of the month to have sex with your partner to try and get pregnant.

Your provider may give you and your partner medical tests to find out if you may need treatment. For example, your provider may:

Want your partner to get his sperm tested to make sure it’s healthy. This is called a semen analysis. Your provider can tell him where to get this test.

Give you some tests to make sure there are no problems with your fallopian tubes or uterus. If your tubes are blocked or if there are problems with your uterus, you may have trouble getting pregnant. You may be able to get treatment to fix these problems.

After these tests, you, your partner, and your provider can decide about fertility treatment.

What problems can fertility treatment cause?

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Fertility treatment does help many women get pregnant. But it can cause certain problems, too. The most serious problem is that treatment can cause you to get pregnant with multiples. Some fertility treatments may cause you to release many eggs at the same time. Each of these eggs can become fertilized by sperm, which can make you pregnant with more than one baby.

Being pregnant with multiples can cause serious problems for you and your baby. The March of Dimes believes that if you’re getting fertility treatment, it’s important to try to get pregnant with just one baby. Talk to your provider about ways to help lower your chances of getting pregnant with multiples.

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Even if you get pregnant with just one baby, some fertility treatments make your baby more likely to have problems than a baby born without fertility treatment. These include premature birth, low birth weight and birth defects. Talk to your provider about the risks of fertility treatment so you and your partner have all the information you need to decide if treatment is right for you.

What kinds of fertility treatments are there?

There are several kinds of fertility treatment services. You, your partner, and your provider can decide which treatment gives you the best chance of getting pregnant and having a healthy pregnancy. Common treatments include:

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Fertility Treatment Services in Singapore

  • Fertility assessment and treatment for both males and females.
  • Monitoring of Ovulation (MOO) in Natural Menstrual Cycle for the timing of intercourse
  • Ovarian stimulation and Ovulation induction with fertility tablets (Clomiphene citrate) or Gonadotrophin injections
  • Super-Ovulation and Artificial insemination, Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI) with Husband’s Sperm