When Jaimie Gardner first froze her eggs in 2021, she joined a growing cohort of women taking their fertility into their own hands.
The number of women freezing their eggs for future use climbed from 3642 in 2020 to 6899 in 2022.Single women and same-sex female couples now account for 17 per cent of people using IVF, lending weight to a push to change Medicare’s definition of infertility.The number of women freezing their eggs has doubled as IVF success rates continue to climb and more single and same-sex couples choose to have children.
Having twins and triplets was once considered the greatest risk of IVF treatment but multiple births reached a record low of 2.7 per cent of IVF births in 2022. In 2010, it was 7.9 per cent. For women who chose to freeze their eggs for future use, more than one-third did so for non-medical reasons .
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