Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago Blog

Age and female fertility and waiting to have babies

• A recent report on the average age at first childbirth from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics showed that as of 2006, women in the US waited an average of 3.6 years longer to have their first baby, as compared

Octomom and IVF – before June of 2008

• In June of 2008, Nadya Suleman was a single, unemployed mother of 6 children
• According to reports, she was receiving some “public assistance”
• All six of her children were reportedly conceived through in vitro fertilization
• All 6 kids were under 7 years old, including 2 year old twins

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a US government agency, has just released a preliminary version of its 2007 Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Report. It expects to release the final version in December. The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) released its version of the report on 2007 IVF cycles several months ago. However, clinics are not required by

Learn about blastocyst transfer

Couples with infertility often need IVF to get pregnant.What should they know about IVF clinic success rates?

• An interesting and unusual aspect of IVF is that there is a definitive outcome