In Odessa, 2009, a new clinic was created, which is intended to provide the diagnosis and treatment of infertility. All staff of the clinic – from an assistant nurse and till the director – performs its duties on the highest professional level and considers this job as an art. LADA Reproductive Health Clinic is headed by Ruslan Valentinovych Sobolev – the Cand. Sci. (Med.), senior researcher, obstetrician-gynecologist of higher category, the author of many scientific papers on ART, publications and articles in Ukraine and abroad.
LADA Reproductive Health Clinic has everything you need. Fertility specialists and embryologists fanatically loving their job, medical specialists always acting first and foremost to the benefit of patients, skillful and amiable nurses, mindful, delicate and meticulous administrators.
All the equipment available at the Clinic is advanced, multiply tested by manufacturers, recalibrated by the manufacturers’ representatives at assembly and adjustment in situ, at the Clinic, additionally qualified by the Ukrainian State Committee for Metrology and Standardization.
Apart from being up-to-date, our equipment is intelligent as well. The key apparatus are equipped with their own processors and integrated into a single network with the Clinic computers. Accordingly, everything that is going on in the process of diagnosing, therapy and assisted reproductive technologies is continuously recorded, memorized, used for selection of optimum modes of patient monitoring and for timely update.
Air is supplied to the working areas through mechanical and antimicrobial filtration systems.
The power supply and gas monitoring are fully backed up.
The embryos’ life support systems feature the double and triple backup modes.
Lastly, the anti-vibration devices used for fabrication of working furniture make the process of micromanipulations on oocytes and embryos (ICSI, hatching, biopsy) fully protected against any external influence.
LADA Clinic is situated in the central part of the city, in a new building on Srednefontanskaya Street. It is easy to reach it from any district of Odessa, from the railway station and bus station.
We live for the sake of carrying out the Mission: to give you a chance to accomplish the primary purpose of life – to prolong yourselves in children.
Pregnancy facts
For majority of absolutely healthy married couples aged under 30 striving for pregnancy, the chance in every natural cycle is 20 – 25%. This opportunity increases up to 60% in case of regular sex life without contraception during 3-6 months, and up to 85% – that within a year.
On female fertility
The ovum is usually fertilized on the 14th day in 28-day menstrual cycle, which varies depending on the cycle duration.
The older is a woman the lower is the chance to get pregnant.
About male fertility
Avoid scrotal organs superheating, especially in baths, saunas, and a long-term stay in the places with a high temperature. For the period you plan to conceive a child you shouldn’t wear tight and closed underwear, while doing physical exercises. Because the seminal fluid needs a lot of time to restore its normal qualities after such superheating.
Smoking cigarettes or marijuana, muscle pills, used in body building, some antibiotics and medicines for treatment of gastric ulcer can seriously suppress sperm production.
Information for both marriage partners
The well-balanced diet and regular moderate bodily exercises indisputably increase the chances for pregnancy in each cycle. Regular physical exercise also helps to avoid physical and emotional stresses. Frequent stresses result in male spermatogenesis disorders and have an adverse effect on female ovulatory ability.
Quick or excessive loss of weight adversely affects hormonal control of sex activity by the brain, which results in ovum maturation and sperm production disorders.
Quick gain in weight has an adverse effect on hormonal link between genital organs and the brain and impairs the ability to conceive.
Consult your fertility specialist before taking any vitamins, especially biologically active additives.
Use of some lubricants at sexual contacts may reduce sperm motility.
Sexually transmitted diseases may seriously reduce fertility of both marriage partners. These infections often have no symptoms. Therefore, pre-examination prior to conception is a must.
When should a doctor be consulted?
If a woman has not got pregnant within a year of the regular sexual life without contraception.
If a spontaneous loss of pregnancy recurs.
If you are older than 28.
If mensus periods are irregular or missing.
If you were using a Lippes loop earlier.
If you underwent abdominal surgery.
At endometriosis.
At excessive pilosis in women.
If one or several of the above factors are present and pregnancy is absent within 6 months of sexual life without contraception – consult a doctor.
