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.

Australia continues to lead the world in achieving the highest pregnancy and live birth rates following IVF.

At IVFAustralia, we are proud of the increasing number of patients for whom we are achieving success – conception and a baby.

Our success rates have continued to improve, particularly since we expanded our blastocyst programme. Such have been the success rates achieved under this programme, we now routinely recommend blastocycst culture of all embryos (that is allowing embryos to grow five days in vitro before transferring them back to the woman).

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.