Late Pregnancy? Is IVF On Your Cards?

By Super

Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 18:11

At a time when people are busy building up their career and degrees, reproducing babies have almost become a duty. A survey claims that most of the couples are opting for babies only in the age of 30's and sometimes even 40's.

This is biologically not the right time to conceive and that's why most of the couple take the aid of IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation) rather than naturally conceiving.

Advanced IVF technology would mean production of embryos at a success rate of virtually 100 percent and cultivate them in computer-controlled storage facilities.

The time is not far when a couple would run for IVF rather than sex to reproduce, giving themselves a better chance of conceiving through IVF. If conception is done in younger age, between one is 24 -25 years of age, then they can reproduce babies naturally. Older people have only a one-in-four chance a month of conceiving naturally.

For couples over-35, the chance of natural conception falls to less than one in 10. Modern fertility techniques have revealed that the healthiest couples have a 50:50 chance of success using IVF.

VIF have been tested on animals as well which showed positive result and the scientist believe that the technology could easily be adapted for humans. But doctors claim that conceiving through artificial means hampers the couples sexual life which may later have emotional impacts.

“We are not quite at that stage yet, but it"s where we"re heading. Natural human reproduction is at best a fairly inefficient process. Within the next five to 10 years, couples approaching 40 will access the IVF industry first when they want to have a baby," concludes John Yovich.

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