'It's an absolutely fantastic thing that we've been given this technology ... who knows if I would have had a baby by now if I didn't have IVF?'
A record one in 10 babies born to women aged 35 and older are now conceived via IVF, with an increasing number of women using frozen embryos to screen out any chromosomal abnormalities.
IVF clinics are increasingly doing "freeze-all" cycles, in which all the eggs or embryos collected in a cycle are cryopreserved rather than transferring a fresh embryo.Professor Rombauts said the main driver of the freeze-all trend was the rise in pre-implantation genetic testing, in which embryos are screened for chromosomal abnormalities in the hope of selecting only the healthy embryos to transfer.
Laura Smith, 34, from Forest Lodge is the proud mother of 4-month-old Hunter after undergoing IVF at Genea. "For me, he's perfection and everything I ever wanted," she said. She opted to use a frozen embryo because of medical advice it would improve her odds to harvest and implant on different cycles and to enable genetic testing.
Age is still a powerful determiner of IVF success, with younger women having better chances. For women under 30 years, live birth rate per fresh embryo transfer was 40.4 per cent compared to 9.5 per cent for women aged 40 to 44.
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