Tuesday 10 / September / 2024
Muscat: The Fertility Centre at Al Wattayah Gynaecology and Obstetrics Complex announced the birth of the first baby girl to a 37-year-old mother who was childless for almost 10 years.
Dr. Rahma bint Salim Al-Ghabshi, Head of the Fertility Centre, said: “This was one of the first cases to undergo fertility treatment with the opening of the centre. The mother had been following up for a long time in the clinic and had taken many treatments, stimulants, and artificial insemination. She also had diabetes and an underactive thyroid gland.”
She added that after continuous follow-up and intensive care from the doctors in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Khoula Maternity Hospital, the pregnancy journey began. The birth was through caesarean section due to the pregnancy conditions. She gave birth to a healthy baby girl weighing 2.56 kilograms.
She said that the centre receives more than 60 cases weekly, and it performs between 15 and 20 fertilisation operations every week.
She stressed the centre’s endeavour to cooperate with international institutions specialised in the field of fertility and to obtain academic recognition to be a specialised centre for training female doctors in the field of fertility.
The Fertility Centre at Al Wattayah Gynaecology and Obstetrics Complex, affiliated with the General Directorate of Khoula Hospital, which was opened in February this year, represents a glimmer of hope and a journey for the motherhood and fatherhood to help couples overcome the problems of pregnancy and childbirth.
The centre includes a medical team with extensive experience in the field of fertility, consisting of infertility and assisted conception consultants, embryology technicians and specialists, and is equipped with the latest technology to provide free medical care services with high quality.
IVF is used in cases of blocked fallopian tubes, male infertility, or women with ovulation disorders or infertility of unknown cause, with other procedures and treatments failing.
IVF operations are performed according to internationally recognised conditions, most notably that the mother’s age should not exceed 42 years when registering for treatment, with no healthy child in the current marriage, and that the woman’s body mass index should not exceed 35, which will have a positive impact on the success of the treatment. It
The mother’s age is the main factor controlling the chances of success of IVF. The older the woman gets, the lower the success rates. The success rate of IVF at the age of forty is very low compared to the success rate of IVF at the age of thirty or twenty.
