Many couples ask us when they should start looking into assisted reproduction if they want to have kids. And our response is always the same: if you haven’t conceived naturally after a year of regular, unprotected intercourse, we recommend that you visit a specialist in gynaecology. He or she will perform the necessary testing in […]
When we talk about female fertility there is a very important term that all women should be aware of during their routine gynaecological check-up: this term is ovarian reserve. We use this terminology to quantify the number of eggs a woman has at a certain time in her life. The anti-müllerian hormone, which you’ve probably […]
Today we bring you a new testimony to be added to our collection of Real Stories from moms and dads, all of which can also be read on our blog. This story is about Lidia, a close friend of the URE family who decided to preserve her fertility to become a mom in the future. […]
The freezing of embryos by vitrification, or ultra‑rapid freezing, is one of the assisted reproduction techniques we perform at URE Centro Gutenberg. It’s a very useful procedure as it allows us to preserve the embryos that aren’t going to be transferred in the same cycle. This may be because there are additional embryos remaining after […]
Due to the COVID-19 health crisis, we’ve launched an emergency plan at URE Centro Gutenberg. Its purpose is to reduce, to the extent possible, the impact of the pandemic on our patients. With this plan we are also hoping to minimise possible adverse effects on assisted reproduction treatments. As part of our strategy, all patients […]
According to recent data published by the National Statistics Institute of Spain this past June, the number of births in Spain fell by 6.1% in 2018. At the same time, the average number of children that women are having has dropped 0.06 points. In 2008, the average was around 1.44 children per woman, while a […]
Vitrification is a rapid freezing technique for eggs and embryos. It involves subjecting them to a sudden drop in temperature, to negative 196 degrees Celsius, in a liquid nitrogen tank. With this freezing technique no damage is caused to the egg or the cells of the embryo, and it’s a process we carry out on […]
Artificial insemination is one of the assisted reproduction treatments we perform at our fertility clinic in Spain. It is a minimally invasive treatment we recommend to patients with unexplained infertility, meaning patients whose fertility test results have come back normal. We also recommend this treatment to women who need to use donor sperm from a […]
Today at our fertility clinic in Spain we want to talk to you about menopause and, more specifically, premature menopause. About how it affects women and infertility, and what assisted reproduction treatments exist in these cases. As you already know, a female’s ovaries have reproductive and hormonal functions. They are responsible for ovulation and are […]
Male infertility represents 40% of infertility cases that look to assisted reproduction clinics, such as our fertility clinic in Spain, for help. And, of these cases, 15% have azoospermia. Azoospermia is a semen abnormality characterised by the total absence of spermatozoids in the ejaculate. This absence of sperm may occur if the testicles do not […]