Hopeful Fertility News From AU
There was a lot of hopeful fertility data released recently from studies done in Australia. According to some of their latest research the Institute of Health And Welfare's statistics indicate a substantial rise in the number of healthy babies being born to women in their early forties. The numbers indicated a 40 percent rise in the number of healthy births from the year 2002 compared to 4 years later in 2006. This is quite a bit of hopeful news for those women looking to assisted reproductive technology to help them concieve.
These good numbers would are an indication that the IVF procedures of today are definitely going in the right direction in terms of the science behind it all. I call this hopeful new because I don't want to make it seam like this is off the chart kind of happy news. These are numbers that still need to be kept and framed in the right perspective. Because you can do the searches on the Internet to find these articles and the headlines will read Big Boost Or Double Your Chances which is all fine and dandy until you read a little deeper.
The most telling stat that I saw was that women aged 40 to 44 had a 9.9% chance of concieving with the help of IVF which is up from 5% only 2 years prior to that. That's great they doubled it only 2 years but 9.9% in reality is still some slim odds. Don't get me wrong I will take every percentage point in my favor that I can get! I guess the point of all this is still the obvious one and that is if you have any inclination that you may want to have kids, please do not wait until you hit your forties because that is a situation you really don't want to be in and I am speaking from personal experience.
One more thing about these reports and stats that I have been reading is that this news is coming out of Australia. I am really only familiar with procedures and techniques that are done in the US. With that in mind I wanted to ask if there is much of a difference in the science that goes on between geographical regions. I am aware that certain restrictions go from country to country but in general aren't the procedures and techniques shared throughout the medical community globally? Please share your comments and thank you for reading.
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Helena Goff:
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12 November 2008, 5:42 pmwhyamihere:
you spelled conceiving wrong.
16 September 2008, 6:28 pmremember, "i" before "e" except after "c"
and
"seam" should be "seem"