Gynaecologist lists ways to preserve fertility

Speaking at the monthly open-day forum organised by Nisa Premier Hospital, Abuja recently, Wada who is the CEO of the hospital said when preserved in liquid nitrogen, they will become useful for several years to come.He said: “The fact that babies have come out of this process successfully is enough for us to tell the […]

Speaking at the monthly open-day forum organised by Nisa Premier Hospital, Abuja recently, Wada who is the CEO of the hospital said when preserved in liquid nitrogen, they will become useful for several years to come.
He said: “The fact that babies have come out of this process successfully is enough for us to tell the young people who are delaying their fertility and people who are in danger of losing their fertility from the treatment of sicknesses (cancer, major surgery on reproductive organs) to move one step forward and preserve their fertility and log onto it whenever the conditions arise, like marriage, recovery and cure from whatever disease they undergo.”
Another fertility consultant at the hospital, Dr Arati Sohoni, said, “As women age, their egg reserve go down unlike the men. Even at 70, men can still father a child, because their sperm is still as virile as when they were young. Fertility preservation is a blessing to all women.”
She said once a woman is approaching 35 to 40 years and “you have not had a child yet, just go to a clinic and get your eggs preserved.
“Once the embryologist gets the eggs, they preserve it in liquid nitrogen and it can be preserved till infinity when you are ready for a baby, they will recover the eggs and it’s as normal as when you preserved it. And the babies that come from these are normal and natural like any other baby,” Sohoni says.
Experts say people who should consider fertility preservation are females from 28 years old; people diagnosed with cancer and are about undergoing cancer treatment and those who want to undergo major surgery on their reproductive organs.