![]() ![]() Please call our information line on 1300 FERTILITY (337 8450) or schedule a free consultation.Dear all who got their BFPs (pregnancy) through IVF/ICSI/FET, I request you all to post your success stories in this thread. The best advice you can receive for the likely success rate for YOU personally, will be from a Fertility Nurse Specialist. Persistence, like most other things in life, is the key to success. As the old saying goes “pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again”. So there certainly is an element of luck involved. At the end of the day, some couples get pregnant and some don’t and we don’t really know why that happens in an individual situation. We can refer you to someone who can help, or you might like to try an established program like Weight Watchers. If this applies to you then you might like to consider taking a few months to address your weight first. Women who are over or underweight have a lower chance of pregnancy both with treatment and without. We are happy to refer you to a counsellor for help with quitting. You can’t do anything about how old you are or how your ovaries behave, but you can do something about this one. Whether it is one or both of you, cigarette and or marijuana smoking decreases your chance of success. You might also like to look at an on-line fertility calculator such as the one found here. However, there have been babies born after successful vasectomy or tubal ligation operations! Your IVF Specialist or IVF Nurse can help to give you an idea of the chance of success you have without treatment. As you can see from the graph below the age of the woman is a very strong predictor of whether you will be successful. Women who have both tubes absent or blocked have very low success rates. Women with 2 normal fallopian tubes have higher success rates than women with only one functional tube. Motility of sperm (how well they move) is very important in predicting success.įallopian Tubes. The closer to normal the semen results the better the success rates are. Some women do not develop follicles in response to the medications, and others do, for reasons that aren’t entirely understood. Having previously been pregnant (either on or off treatment) increases the chance that you will be successful again. There are many hurdles to cross during treatment and it is wise to keep in mind that they all have to be successfully crossed to get to what we are all striving for – a baby to take home.įertility History. However, generalised success rates can be misleading due to the individuality of each patient’s situation. Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) procedures have progressed rapidly since their development and so have the associated success rates. Your IVF Specialist will explain your chances of success, taking into consideration your type of infertility, your age and type of treatment. Schedule your free, one-on-one consultation with a fertility nurse specialist. Our approach is to personally assess each patient’s particular situation and develop a unique treatment plan. While it is reassuring to know you have access to state-of-the-art fertility care and science, it is equally important to understand how your age and any relevant medical conditions you and your partner have will impact your chance of a successful pregnancy. Depending on your age, the reason for your infertility, and the time you have already been trying, it could be much lower than this for you, although it is hard to ever say that the chance is zero. Therefore, around 80% of couples don’t have success from one cycle. For normal fertile couples, this is surprisingly low ~20% per period cycle. The other factor you need to be aware of to put your chance of success with treatment into perspective is the chance that you will get pregnant WITHOUT treatment. Do the IVF success rates include the use of donated eggs?.Is it a cumulative rate – meaning the chance of pregnancy after one fresh IVF cycle, PLUS all the frozen embryo transfers that are done with embryos created in that first cycle?.Is it any pregnancy (meaning a positive pregnancy test), a clinical pregnancy, or the live birth rate?.Is it only couples who completed (rather than those that started) an IVF cycle?.Is it only women under the age of 35 that are included?.When you examine IVF success rates, look closely at the details of the information: Why is this the one you see used? Simply because it looks so much better! The IVF success rates that you will see listed most often refer to clinical pregnancies per embryo transfer procedure performed. This is NOT the pregnancy rate that you will see published on most IVF websites. What most couples want to know is what their chances are that they will get a baby to take home if they start an IVF cycle. ![]()
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