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IVF and the Infertility Technopoly: Restoring Sanity in the World of Baby Making

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: Julia Indichova

The recent triumphs celebrated by the infertility industry include the Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to the inventor of in vitro fertilization, doctor Robert G. Edwards, the birth of an IVF-conceived baby, whose mom, at 49, became the oldest woman to achieve pregnancy using her own eggs, and the construction of an artificial ovary that promises to make in vitro fertilization more effective.

Technopoly -- a term coined by the late cultural critic, Neil Postman. "is a system wherein technology is always viewed as positive and of value, with little consideration of its consequences"

This has become tragically true in the world of baby making.

Assisted reproductive technology is a powerful tool that helps or harms depending on how we use it.

In the last decade and a half of my work as a fertility educator, I've celebrated the arrival of many IVF-conceived babies, with mothers and fathers who followed this road to parenthood attentive to internal cues and protective of their overall level of health.

I have also seen women, propelled by fears of childlessness, reach for the big guns of in-vitro-fertilization, as a way of tuning out the body's call for attention. For them, a potentially useful tool became a self-punishing weapon.

Sadly, the sound of cheering over the triumphs of each breakthrough technique is drowning out the voices of the many millions of women for whom IVF became a revolving door of endless egg retrievals and embryo transfers; women, who entered the promised land of Assisted Reproduction, blasted their ovaries with progressively more aggressive protocols, only to return years later, childless, broken and broke.

A 2002 report in The New England Journal of Medicine examined the incidence of health problems in babies conceived through in-vitro as well as children conceived through introcytoplasmic sperm injection, in which the egg is fertilized by injecting it directly with the sperm. Reviewing data from registries of birth defects, the investigators found that 9 percent of babies conceived through treatments had chromosomal abnormalities, heart, kidney, and urogenital defects—compared to 4.2 percent of babies conceived without treatments.

The investigators, as always, called for further research, stating it was unclear whether the abnormalities were caused by IVF or by the "infertile couples' medical problems."

For me, the study raised a different set of questions: If your car begins to break down, chances are you will take it in for repair, rather than force it into higher performance. Doesn't the body deserve similar attention? Wouldn't make more sense to address the underlying medical problems that might've triggered a couple's inability to conceive, rather than force the body into doing what it may not be ready for?

Motherhood and pregnancy are emotionally charged experiences. Guiding wannabe moms on the baby-making-road I have found that reproductive challenges are often linked with unresolved inner conflicts, memory of sexual abuse, birth trauma or other issues imprinted in our tissues. I have witnessed the resolution of such conflicts lead to natural conception, even for women with a history of multiple failed IVF treatments.

Sometimes the missing piece of the puzzle is undiagnosed Celiac disease or a latent nutritional deficiency that allows individuals to function but impedes the more challenging task of implantation, gestation and birth. A thoughtful change in diet and lifestyle can often restore balance creating a more life-friendly inner environment. The attempt to side step such symptoms by revving up our ovaries with synthetic hormone stimulants might not only further disrupt endocrine function, it robs aspiring parents of the opportunity for healing that comes with every health crisis.

As Neil Postman observes: Medical technology is "...the kind of friend that asks for trust and obedience because its gifts are truly bountiful. But, of course, there is a dark side to this friend. Its gifts are not without a heavy cost."

Unless more patients and doctors begin to speak up about the dark side of this friend, the earth-community has yet to see the immense environmental impact and healthcare costs of the rising number of state-of-the-art IVF clinics worldwide. A dubious legacy for the not-yet-born generations of children we so fervently long to bring into the world.

Keywords: IVF, in vitro fertiization, infertility, baby making, reproductive technology

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