Ho
Thi Ha, 33, in HCM City, has got married for seven years but she did not want
to have a baby until recently, after her parents-in-law pressed the couple to
have a child.
Ha and her husband went to the Tu Du
Obstetrics Hospital for pre-exams. However, doctors said that Ha’s oocyte
volume has reduced and her eggs ovulate abnormally. Ha’s ability to bear a
child is very low, only several percentage.
Ha’s case is not rare. The number of women who
face childbearing problems due to high age is on the rise at Tu Du Hospital.
“Most of them are over 35,” said doctor Ngo Thi Yen, chief of the hospital’s
Sexual Consulting Division.
The Ngoc Lan obstetric clinic in District 1,
HCM City provides consulting service to 50-100 women a day. Most of them are
over 35 years old who face problems in having child.
Meanwhile, the Obstetrics Ward of the HCM City
Medical University Hospital receives over 200 childbearing-age women a day, who
needs consultancy on contraceptive measures.
Being afraid of having baby seems to become a
trend among young couples. Phan Tu Toan, 29, who has got married for four years
but Toan and his wife do not want to have a child now. “My friends and my
relatives say that perhaps I’m infertile but I don’t care,” Toan said.
“We have to get a master diploma. Moreover, we
do not have a house yet so we don’t dare to have a child now,” he added.
Hoang Thi Thanh, 24, from Phu Nhuan district,
HCM City, said: “Doctors told me that I’m in the childbearing age and I should
not delay delivering a child, because it will be very difficult for having a
baby when I get older. But I and my husband have decided to not have a child
right now. We are not hurried. If necessary, we can perform artificial
insemination,” Thanh said.
Doctor Vuong Thi Ngoc Lan, from the HCM City
Medical University Hospital, said that there are various reasons for young
couples to delay having a child, such as economic difficulties, trying to get
promotion, etc.
High
risks
Ho Anh, 43, in My Tho city, Tien Giang
province, did not want to have a baby until her family forced her to have a
baby to maintain family continuity. The woman went to Tu Du Hospital for
consultation. Doctors said that she could not have a baby since her eggs
ovulate abnormally and ovule stopped working. She performed in-vitro
fertilization but the hope is only ten percent.
Doctor Vuong Ngoc Lan said that the best time
for women to have a baby is between 20-24 years old. The childbearing ability
reduces gently at the age of 30-32 and sharply falls after that. “At that age,
women may lose childbearing ability,” Lan said.
A research work by the HCM City Association
for Reproductive Endocrine and Infertility reveals that for women of over 40,
pregnant ability falls by 95 percent.
“It is extremely difficult to have a child by
in-vitro insemination for women of that age,” said Prof. Nguyen Thi Ngoc
Phuong, former director of Tu Du Hospital.
According to doctor Lan, each ovary contains
500,000 ovules. After 30 years old, the ovary will have only 1,000 eggs so the
pregnancy is very difficult.
Moreover, miscarriage is also high for women
after 35 years old. Research works show that nearly 15 percent of women of less
than 35 lose pregnancy. The rate increases to 20 percent for women of 35-37
years old and higher for older women.
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha, head of the
Obstetrics Ward of Tu Du Hospital, warned of high rate of babies having Down
syndrome whose mothers are over 30. For mothers of 25 years old, the rate is
only 1/1,250 babies with Down syndrome; 1/952 for mothers of 30 years old;
1/378 for mothers of over 35; 1/106 for mothers of over 40 and 1/30 for mothers
of over 45.
Vietnam’s
population getting older
It is forecast that by 2020, 18 percent of
Vietnam’s population will be old people. According to the General Statistics
Office, Vietnam will enter the period of “aging population” after 2017 and it
will enter the “aged population” period in the next two decades.
The National Committee on Elderly People
estimates that by 2050, 30 percent of Vietnam’s population will be the elderly.
Of the number, 81.2 percent will live in the countryside and 18.8 percent in
the urban. Only 16-17 percent of them have pension.
A recent survey on the elderly’s health draws
a dim painting of Vietnam’s dependency population, with 95 percent of the
elderly committing diseases, around 55 percent suffering from chronic diseases
and only 5.7 percent being healthy.
The number of families with several
generations is reducing, while the number of families with two old people or
old singles is on the rise.
Le Nga
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