One in six Australian couples of reproductive age experience difficulties conceiving a child. Assisted conception, nowadays, provides the highest possible chance of starting a family as the success of assisted reproductive technology has overtaken natural conception.
IVFAustralia is very proud of the increasing number of patients for whom we are achieving success – conception and a baby. Each year we collate our pregnancy and live birth data to review our clinical and scientific practice. Each woman is counted once and our data details results of our cleavage (2 and 3 day old embryos) and blastocyst (5 day old embryos) transfers for all patients treated in 2006 (some clinics choose to report only on select groups of patients providing a misleading representation of actual success rates).
The average age of our female patients is 36 and in this age group in particular our success rates are second to none.
IVFAustralia’s approach is to provide the least invasive, most effective treatment option for patients to maximise their chance of conception. At your initial consultation your fertility specialist will give you an indication of your likelihood of conceiving which will vary between 5-50% per treatment cycle depending on the specific treatment recommended and :
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both partner’s age;
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how long you have been trying to conceive;
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whether either partner has been a parent previously;
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how well the eggs and sperm are likely to fertilise.
Since January 2008, IVFAustralia routinely recommends blastocyst culture of all embryos (that is allowing embryos to grow 5 days in vitro before transferring them back to the woman) as our clinical evidence, and that of international fertility clinics, is that the chance of pregnancy following fresh blastocyst embryo transfer is significantly higher than cleavage (2 or 3 day old embryo) transfer. The overall pregnancy rate of transferring a cleavage stage embryo is comparable, but it is now clear from our extensive research and international data that the average patient will conceive more quickly following blastocyst embryo transfer.