Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the reality of the suffering as infertile women who are doing repeated ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) for pregnancy and childbirth. Methods: The data were analyzed using Colaizzi’s (1978) phenomenological method. Nine women receiving repetitive ART participated in semi-structured, in-depth interviews for this study. Results: Data analysis yielded sixteen themes which were grouped into four theme clusters: ‘Being demoted to a tool only for pregnancy’, ‘Struggling for the happiness hard to get’, ‘Standing loneliness alone on a solitary island’, and ‘Ongoing yearning for recognition by pregnancy and childbirth’. Conclusion: The findings provide further understanding of complex experiences of women receiving ART who were struggling with practical, psychological, and relational issues in their everyday lives. Based on the results of this study, health professionals are urged to support those women receiving repetitive ART by providing comprehensive caring programs that employ personal, social, and psychological approaches so that they can resolve such issues.
It has been now believed and documented that high producing animals can be exploited even best if the heat period expressed in them could be synchronized. Recently, the development in the field of animal science and the introduction of newer technology such as assisted reproductive technology (ART) has immensely rationalized the importance of certain techniques by improvising them in order to benefit the production part from animals. Assisted reproductive technologies have not only benefitted a lot by increasing the production but also by addressing several problems of reproduction failure in farm animals. These technologies have also assisted in improving them and in accelerating genetic improvement among animal population. Techniques such as improved follicular efficiencies, ovum pick up, in vitro embryo production, embryo and semen sexing, somatic cell nuclear transfer and production of transgenic and cloned embryos have been now taken up as cost effective shape in accelerating genetic improvement in animal population and all such technologies have been overviewed and highlighted in this review.