Multiple pregnancy: a complication for fertility treatments?

Many patients at URE Centro Gutenberg ask us, almost daily, if multiple pregnancies can cause problems during assisted reproduction treatment. Let’s start by quickly answering this question: multiple pregnancies are indeed a complication for fertility treatments. But we won’t stop there; today we want to go a little deeper so you can understand why.

Did you know that the first girl in the province of Malaga born after IVF did so at URE Centro Gutenberg? Today she turns 25 and is the mother of a healthy baby boy, the result of a spontaneous pregnancy. Following this milestone, which marked a turning point in Malaga reproductive medicine, there have been significant advances in assisted reproduction techniques.

The main problem with multiple pregnancies in assisted reproduction

Thirty years ago, the main objective of fertility treatments was to achieve the long-awaited pregnancy, often at the cost of problems arising from the main complication, multiple pregnancies. Since then, major changes have taken place: the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of fertility treatments have improved.

All of this has necessitated the search for tools to reduce the main complication of fertility treatments. In the case of multiple pregnancies, they are associated with higher rates of premature birth, low birth weight, complications, and other side effects for the newborn.

To this end, along with improved results and improved embryo culture and selection techniques, reducing the number of embryos transferred into the uterus appears to be the main preventive option.