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The statistical processing
of results showed that the saliva
crystallization test was as valid and
sensitive as the FERN test, while
correlative values of both tests in relation
to ultrasound folliculometry were high.
Thus, a new
method and a new product have been
developed that, with the assistance of
instructions , may be used by every woman.
In this way, women do not have any more
the obligation to attend a health
institution every day for the purpose of
determination of fertile days; it is a well
known fact that such visits are very often
unpleasant for them, stress-prone and
connected with the loss of time and absence
from work. Such every day emotional problems
may cause infertility bearing upon the
frequency of sexual intercourses and
ovulation.
In order to
investigate to what extent this new product
can contribute to the improvement of results
in the sterility treatment, a team of
eminent experts dealing with the problem of
sterility, headed by Assistant Professor
Ratomir Ganovic, MD., PhD., has examined 50
women who used only mini microscope “MAYBE
BABY” for detrmination of fertile days.
The examination
was carried out from 1 October 1994 to 1
August 1995.
The youngest
woman covered by this investigation was 21
years of age while the oldest one was 43.
The majority of women was between 30 and 35
years of age.
The average
duration of marriage amounted to 4 years.
The majority of
women (18) that used mini microscope “MAYBE
BABY” had higher education, but a
considerable number (10) had completed only
8-year elementary school.
In the greatest
number of woman (31) secondary sterility was
in question.
The first step
was to examine husbands and the majority of
them had normal spermogram (33) while 10 of
them had reduced fecundity. Seven men
refused to be examined.
The examined
women mainly had regular menstrual cycles.
Hysterosalpingography was first performed in
all women confirming that they all had
unobstracted tubes. In 5 women with the
sterility of several years this finding was
also reconfirmed by laparoscopy.
Thirty-two of
these women had previously visited a
gynaecologist several times to determine
fertile days. The ovulation was established
most frequently by ultrasound but other
methods were also used (measurement of basal
temperature, analyses of hormones, etc.).
The remaining 18 women did not have their
ovulation established but planned their
sexual intercourses in the middle of the
cycle.
After the
examinations had been completed, women were
advised to use mini microscope “MAYBE BABY”
, the product of the firm OPTIX - Belgrade,
in the next 6 months for determination of
the approximate date of ovulation and to
plan sexual intercourses with their husbands
during fertile days. Three or four days of
abstinence was recomended beforehand.
They used mini
microscope “MAYBE BABY” according to the
instruction they received , with ease and
without problems.
Ten of them
required additional information.
Out of 50
examined women, 16 of them became pregnant
thanks to determination of fertile days
using mini microscope “MAYBE BABY”; they
accounted for 32%.
Nine women
dropped out of records because they stopped
coming. It was considered that they did not
become pregnant. However, it may be presumed
from experience that some of these 9 women
became pregnant but, as they achieved their
objective, i.e. wanted pregnancy, they
interrupted contacts.
It is generally
known that women who were treated for
sterility very often, after having cured it,
choose another doctor to follow-up their
pregnancy and delivery.
Out of 16
pregnancies, 5 were completed by delivery of
healthy children while one woman, K.S.,
living at the outskirts of the town of
Pozarevac, gave birth to twins, two sweet
girls.
Two pregnancies ended in
spontaneous miscarriages in the second and
third months respectively, while the
pregnancy of 9 women had normal course.
It is
particularly interesting to note that
pregnancy of L.D. from Belgrade occured
after 15 years of marriage and sterility
treatment; of B.M. from Indjija after the
operation performed and of K.M. from
Belgrade when she was 43 and with the
history of 9 years of sterility treatment.
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