You're Kidding! Medical Clown Increases Pregnancy Rates with IVF

A study of 229 Israeli women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to treat infertility found that a 15-minute visit from a trained "medical clown" immediately after the embryos were placed in the womb increased the chance of pregnancy to 36%, compared with 20% for women whose embryo transfer was comedy-free.

After controlling for factors such as the women's age, the nature and duration of their infertility, the number of embryos used and the day on which they were transferred into the uterus, researchers found an even greater effect of therapeutic laughter: the women who were entertained by a clown were 2.67 times more likely to get pregnant than those in the control group.

The quasi-randomized controlled study was published in one of the leading journals on infertility research, Fertility and Sterility, and led by Israeli researcher Shevach Friedler.

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PARENTAL INFERTILITY AND CEREBRAL PALSY IN CHILDREN BORN SPONTANEOUSLY OR AFTER IVF/ICSI

Doctors have known for some time that children born after fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are at increased risk of cerebral palsy. However, it was not known whether this risk was due to the treatment itself, the higher frequency of preterm or multiple births, or a mechanism associated with couples' underlying infertility.

Now, new research published online in the journal Human Reproduction indicates that underlying infertility is not the main reason for the increased risk seen in IVF/ICSI children.

The study led by Dr. Jin Liang Zhu, an epidemiologist at the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, is the first to examine the association between the time it takes a couple to achieve a pregnancy and the risk of cerebral palsy.

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PHYSIOLOGICAL SIDE IN PERIODIZATION OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT

The scope of a life full of limitations, but felt complete peace with everything that full dependence, that was experienced by the child while in his mother's womb. When children are born into the world, child physical dependence on the mother ends and move to a freer world. In the new world, children will encounter things that are different from previous condition.

Sumadi Suryabrata states that in the early years, child development is still limited in the development of physical function. Children interpret that the development of their soul on the basis of function and development of bodily functions. Developments in the physical‘s side is the basis for development in the side of mental health. Mental development will go well if it is preceded by physical maturity.

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