One in six Australian couples of reproductive age experience difficulties conceiving a child. With the significant scientific advances made over the past 10-15 years, assisted conception offers the highest possible chance of starting a family as the success of assisted reproductive technology has overtaken natural conception.

Australia continues to lead the world in achieving the highest pregnancy and live birth rates following assisted conception and IVFAustralia and its group of partner clinics (Melbourne IVF and Queensland Fertility Group) have amongst the highest success rates in the world, making us the leaders in fertility care and responsible for the most pregnancies and live births via assisted conception in Australia.

The graph shows our pregnancy and live birth rates in a group of patients over a two year period in our blastocyst programme who had an embryo transfer. In around 90% of cases, pregnancy was achieved on the first, second or third IVF treatment cycle.

 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.

IVFAustralia’s approach remains 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 :

• both partner’s age;
• how long you have been trying to conceive;
• whether either partner has been a parent previously;
• how well the eggs and sperm are likely to fertilise.