How do sexual relationships affect embryo transfer?

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Couples who start assisted reproduction treatment often have doubts about whether the sexual routine can affect the treatment.

In most cases, these couples interrupt their sexual relations after the embryo transfer , because they are afraid of losing the embryos due to uterine contractions after orgasm or because of the pressure of the penis against the cervix.

Below you have an index with all the points that we will discuss in this article.

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What do professionals say?

There is a wide variety of opinions among specialists in assisted reproduction about whether sexual intercourse has advantages or disadvantages with the result of a fertility treatment.

Some recommend sexual abstinence before follicular puncture or embryo transfer. The reason for this is the possible rupture of the ovarian follicles after ovarian stimulation, which can produce pain.

Post-transference sexual abstinence

However, scientific studies support with real data that sexual intercourse can be beneficial.

It has been discovered that the presence of semen in the reproductive tract of women during embryo implantation increases the probability of achieving a pregnancy. These experimental studies affirm that the components of seminal plasma are responsible for favoring embryonic development and the increase in the implantation rate.

Science says that having sex is positive before and after the embryo transfer.

Results of clinical studies

We have analyzed research papers that examine the effects of sexual intercourse in in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. Specifically, there is a published study on embryo transfer and implantation rates.

In this study an analysis is made on 400 cycles of IVF with ovarian stimulation and another 200 cycles replaced, that is, with frozen embryo transfer.

To verify the possible effects of sexual intercourse, half of the couples remained in sexual abstinence and the other half kept them before and after the embryo transfer. The results obtained from this study were the following:

The group that had sex during the treatment achieved a 50% higher implantation success rate than the other group without sexual intercourse.

Sexual intercourse has a positive effect and increases the success rate of embryo implantation.



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