At the end of 2014, when I was planning to go watch the fireworks show at Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour to celebre the new year, I got Maddy’s message. In this Message, she told me that she delivered a healthy baby. Therefore, I suddenly got an idea which is going to visit Maddy’s home and to see her baby.

How did I meet Maddy? The Answer is an international phone call from Hong Kong. In this phone call, I discovered why Maddy and her husband chose to go Taiwan for IVF treatment (In vitro fertilisation). Her husband has Azoospermia( which is the medical condition of a man whose semen contains no sperm. ) due to him getting mumps when he was a child. They wanted to do a sperm donation program. Then I started to help Maddy to figure out how to reduce the cost for doing IVF in the Taiwan, and plan a personal treatment schedule for Maddy(she just need to come to Taiwan only few times to finish this whole IVF treatment).

I had very hard time to understand Cantonese when I spoke with Maddy’s husband when we first met. Fortunately, Maddy translated what her husband said perfectly in Mandarin to me. It really helped us when we got into our first OPU (oocyte pick up) and BT(Blastocyst Transfer). However, the BT did not at first bring us good news. Maddy wasn’t pregnant, but she still kept her positive attitude and actively continued the next OPU.(because Maddy wants two babies and she only had one Embryo left at that time)

During Maddy’s second time treatment, she told me that her mom will come to Taiwan with her ,and they will stay in Taiwan for one month. Apparently, housing will be a problem for Maddy because there are few affordable Hotels in Taiwan for one month. Thus, I help her to find a short term rental. Eventually we became neighbors, with Maddy renting an apartment near my apartment.

After I met Maddy’ mom, I immediately know where Maddy got these positive attitude and optimistic personality. Maddy’s mom not only helped cheer Maddy up everyday, but also took care Maddy’s daily meals with her wonderful cooking(I was invited to have dinner with them couple times). A few weeks later, The outcome of this time’s OPU was great, we got 12 eggs. 8 out of 12 are successfully fertilized in the same day. Finally, Maddy got 6 good embryo. 15 days later, Maddy is pregnant. When Maddy was on her way home(Hongkong), I saw her husband come pick her up back. I know this baby is the best souvenir to them in this long trip.

As a IVF consultant, helping our customers to conceive is our job. However, I feel something more than the job this time. Maddy and me build a friendship through this job. Maddy now has an energetic little girl.


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If you are aware of these factors, 

you may know more about your own body state.

With the dramatic change in recent society, people tend to start family late. We usually choose to pursue career first, and put starting our own family at the second priority. This decision made more people encounter the infertility problems at their late 30s and 40s of age. More and more studies demonstrated that the quality of oocyte declines with increasing female age. Thus oocyte cryopreservation for the social reason becomes more popular. How about the men? Several studies also found that the mean age of fathering men showed increased since 1993 to date. Meanwhile, the percentage of male factor in the entire population with fertility problem is increasing as well. The following 4 questions are frequently asked by our male cases,




1. Should semen analysis be routinely clinical testing?

Reproductive potential gradually declines with advanced paternal age, but the declining speed is not as fast as maternal ovaries. The semen analysis is the most common method to check the general sperm quality. Some studies indicated that there is significant decrease in semen volume, sperm concentration, sperm motility and sperm morphology among older men. The pregnancy rate in the men at 40s displayed 10% down than that in the men at 30s. Thus the males with advanced age and abnormal semen parameters have higher risk for the infertility issue. Should the semen analysis be routine testing? Maybe NOT. Only the couple who has failed to conceive for ≧1 year is recommended.


2. Should PGS (preimplantation genetic screening) be performed in the men at advanced age? 


3. What should the older father know?

Several reports showed the children with older fathers are more likely to develop certain pathologies, such as the schizophrenia. The rate of autism spectrum disorders slightly increases as well. For the father themselves, some medical comorbidities do affect the fertility, like heart disease and chronic medicines of hypertension. It could lead to erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hypertrophy.


4. Should males cryopreserve their sperm for social reason?

The sperm motility could be halved after cryopreservation. For men with known fertile issue, cryopresevation may induce sperm DNA damage. Since the correlation between fertility and male age is not as strong as the female age, there is no need to cryopreserve sperm for the social reason, and the state of frozen sperm is not comparable to the fresh sperm.

Beyond examinations, healthy diet and lifestyle do help the fertility. It's not necessary to cryopreserve sperm at young age. If the body stays good, the quality of sperm may remain for a long time.

A quote of Taiwanese Poet, Xi Murong, is that “all in rush written in the book of youth.” Youth is like a blooming flower, at the brightest and most beautiful stage of the life. What is your definition of youth?

I still remembered the first day I met her. She came to our clinic for the health screening before getting married and prepared for the pregnancy. The uterine condition and fallopian tubes seemed normal. Unexpectedly, the chocolate cysts were found in her ovaries, with a declined AMH value as 0.76 mg/ml. The ovarian reserve showed severely declined, and it was unusual at her age (~20+ years).



She agreed with this suggestion. Instead of a fixed stimulation protocol, her doctor designed an individualized protocol to adjust her ovarian function. In her first IVF cycle, four mature eggs were collected and it encouraged them to continue the other programs.

Then their wedding followed behind.

In the wedding vows, they promised each other,

"I will love you, hold you and honor you,

I will respect you, encourage you and cherish you,

In health and sickness,

Through sorrow and success,

For all the days of my life." 


The embryologists performed the artificial insemination using IMSI (6000x magnification) in her precious, frozen-thawed oocytes. The culture condition was controlled very well to grow the fertilized eggs into the blastocysts.

After transferring a blastocyst graded as 4BB, she finally got pregnant, and the beta-HCG level was 500 mIU/mL.


Youth is like a blooming flower, at the brightest and most beautiful stage of the life. Although the ovarian reserve was diminished, the quality seemed not being affected by the maternal age adversely yet. With her whole perseverance and spirit, they finally start a sweet family.