General Infertility
Infertility affects about 12% of the reproductive-age population.Infertility strikes one out of six couples.
At most centers, the fertilization rate is about 90% of the mature eggs. However, since the embryologists inseminate all the eggs, the overall fertilization rate that you should expect is closer to 60%.
Most fertile couples have only a 15 – 20% chance of conceiving during any given month
Fertility experts can pinpoint nearly 90% of all fertility problems and treat the vast majority.
An incompetent cervix is responsible for 5% of all recurrent miscarriages
20% of women have a tipped or retroverted uterus, which, contrary to what many women believe, does not cause problems getting pregnant. Around 2 to 3%
of women have an abnormally shaped uterus.
A T-shaped uterus is often a side effect of your mom’s taking diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug given by the 1940s to the 1960s to prevent miscarriage.
It takes no particular medical education to calculate that in these patients, that only have sex on the weekend, the chance of having sex at the fertile pre-ovulatory day is one-third that of couples who have sex three times a week.
First, in vitro fertilization (IVF) with donor sperm gives a 60% pregnancy rate (or more) per cycle, while simple donor sperm insemination gives only a 12% pregnancy rate per cycle.
When there is greater than 35 fragmentations in the embryos, there is only a 15% pregnancy rate. If there is less than 25% fragmentation, there is a 50% pregnancy rate. If there is less than 20% fragmentation, 16% of the embryos implant and become babies, and if there is greater that 20% fragmentation, only 5% of the embryos implant and become babies.
Between 15 and 20% of recurrent miscarriages are caused by uterine problems.
Studies have shown that as many as 75% of all embryos that are conceived naturally miscarry
If your doctor sees a good, strong, normal heartbeat, you have over a 90% chance that the baby will survive and you won’t miscarry
20% of all first-time moms in the United States are over 35.
With poor-quality embryos, the pregnancy rate is only 23%, and with good-quality embryos, the pregnancy rate ranges from 44 to 57%.
More than 50% of infertile couples who pursue treatment eventually get pregnant
There is a slight difference in infertility rates, with Hispanic women under 35 experiencing a 7% infertility rate, Caucasians a 6.4% infertility rate, and African
Americans women recording a 10.5% rate of infertility.
Only around 3% of infertile couples do high tech treatment like in vitro fertilization (IVF) to get pregnant.
Today, more than 100,000 cycles of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) are performed in the United States every year. Given that 1% of all U.S. births are now the result of fertility treatments, most couples probably know someone with a successful outcome from fertility treatments.
There are a lot of reasons for infertility. Hormonal imbalances, illnesses that affect the reproductive organs, age, and lifestyle choices are just a few examples.
But even after a fertility work-up, 10 to 20% of couples are diagnosed with “unexplained infertility’.
The fact is that 20% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage.
If you had no problem having your first child and therefore naturally assumed you had no infertility issues, this diagnosis can come as quite a blow. Secondary infertility is more common than primary fertility, affecting over half of American women who have at least one child.
The success rates reported with the Ericson method vary from no benefit to as high as 75% for the desired gender.
Oral contraceptive pills are effective in 30% to 60% of patients with endometriosis related pain
In patients with unexplained infertility, most studies demonstrate a per-cycle pregnancy rate of 6% for the Clomid/ intrauterine insemination (IUI) combination and 9% to 12% for the gonadtropin/ intrauterine insemination (IUI) combination, compared with a spontaneous pregnancy rate of less than 5% per month.
According to the odds, out of every 100 couples trying to get pregnant in January:
- 40 will conceive in March
- 30 will conceive between April and June,
- 15 will conceive between July and December
- 15 will meet the definition of infertility (failure to conceive within one year)
Upon completion of the diagnostic evaluation, approximately 10% to 15% of couples will be found to have unexplained infertility, meaning that all of their tests are normal.
Top-quality embryos from young patients may yield pregnancy rates around 50%, whereas poor-quality embryos may not even survive the thawing process. In some clinics, more than 75% of embryos survive the freeze – thaw cycle
The incidence of a clinical twin pregnancy after in vitro fertilization (IVF) (without the use of an egg and/or sperm donor) is 10% to 25%, with the exact likelihood depending on the number of embryos transferred and the age of the patient. In 30% to 40% of these pregnancies, one gestational sac will be empty, a situation called a blighted ovum pregnancy.
There is a 40% to 50% risk that the healthy gestational sac and fetus will abort.
There is a 5% spontaneous pregnancy rate among infertile couples who do not seek medical treatment.
25% of modern couples in their mid-thirties are infertile.
From our teen years (when the last thing we really want is a child) to our mid-thirties (when we finally feel emotionally and financially secure enough to start a family), there is a twenty-five-fold decline in our ability to get pregnant.
Almost 5% of all children born in Europe today are the result of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Saliva fertility monitors are 98% accurate.
Doctors have been using injectable fertility drugs in the United States since the 1960s.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) technology has contributed to the births of nearly 2 million babies worldwide.
Blastocyst transfer success rates are slightly higher than other transfers, but a success rate of more than 70 to 75% is suspiciously high.
Multifetal reduction can cause the loss of the entire pregnancy with the risk being 9 to 18%.
The results of a 2006 poll conducted by the International Communication Research concluded that:
- 83% of Americans are opposed to human cloning to provide children for infertile couples.
- 81% are opposed to human cloning to produce embryos that would be destroyed in medical research.