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Most pregnant women pay more attention to food intake while pregnant alone. But in fact recent studies have shown that a healthy diet is done well before pregnancy can reduce the risk of more birth defects. There’s a new study stating that pregnant women will have a lower risk for having a baby with certain birth defects if they are running a healthy diet.

A healthy diet should not only be done during pregnancy, but has been done since before pregnancy. Mediterranean-style diet should be done by a woman for 1 or 1.5 years before the pregnancy in order to keep the risk of disability in infants. A healthy diet that is recommended by eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and wheat in the years before the pregnancy.

“The quality of a good diet can be protective for a variety of abnormal conditions,” said Suzan L. Carmichael, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of pediatrics at the Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, as reported from CNNHealth, Tuesday (10/11/2011).

Probably most women in the years before pregnancy and during pregnancy has been doing a diet high in meat, fat and sugar. Diet include an unhealthy diet for women who want to get pregnant and will give birth to a child. The women who make unhealthy diet has a high risk for having a baby with anencephaly, a condition with a neural tube defect that hinders brain development and are likely to result in miscarriage.

Compared with a diet high in fat and high sugar, a healthy diet that includes lots of folate, iron, and calcium were also associated with lower risk for the condition, among others:

. Third lower risk for cleft lip.
. Quarter lower risk for cleft or cleft palate.
. One-fifth lower risk for spina bifida, and other types of NTD.

Neural tube defects (NTD) is a major birth defect caused by abnormal development of the neural tube, the structure of the embryo during the life of the central nervous system affecting the brain and spinal cord. NTD is one of the most common birth defects that cause infant mortality and serious disability. There are several types of neural tube defects include anencephaly, spina bifida, and encephalocele. Read the rest of this entry »

You and your partner have a health check, and have undergone any treatment improve your fertility. Unfortunately, pregnancy programs you never succeed. Finally, you intend to IVF. But, listen, listen, there are also called artificial insemination. What’s the difference?

Artificial insemination, or also called Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) is a procedure whereby washed sperm from ejaculation to put the best concentration of the sperm into the catheter. The catheter is then inserted through the cervix into the uterus where sperm are stored. After that, depending on the sperm, how that he could find a way to reach the fallopian tubes and found the eggs to be fertilized.

This procedure can only be performed on women with open fallopian tubes, and is usually combined with some form of stimulation of the uterus, such as injectable gonadotropins. It’s kind of medical preparation of the hormones produced by the brain to stimulate the uterus to prepare eggs to be released.

These treatments can be used to handle some cases of unexplained infertility, and cases tend to have low sperm counts.

Meanwhile, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) or commonly called IVF, is a process where the ovaries are usually stimulated to produce many eggs are then extracted from the uterus through suction. This procedure is done by performing general anaesthesia, but without mechanical ventilation tube put through your throat.

The egg and sperm are then placed in a saucer to allow fertilization occurs, and incubated for 3-5 days. Some of the resulting embryos then are placed in the catheter and deposited in the uterus with remaining frozen embryos.

IVF is usually done among others by women with blocked fallopian tubes, advanced reproductive age, men with low sperm counts, infertility or unexplained causes.

Embryo chromosomes could also be evaluated through a separate procedure called Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) to assess whether an embryo has a genetic abnormality such as Down’s Syndrome. Although IVF is quite expensive cost, the technology used is now increasingly the likelihood of success.