70 per cent of women over 30 worry about being able to conceive
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A new survey by Red Magazine has found that one in three women has experienced fertility problems.
Out of the 2,628 women surveyed by Red, seven out of 10 women without children over the age of 30 admitted they worry about being able to conceive. Many also had it in ‘the back of their minds’ that they can turn to IVF, despite half of women who try IVF needing at least three cyles of treatment, with the average cost of fertility treatment at £6,638 per woman.
Secretary of the British Fertility Society, Dr Allan Pacey, says ‘Each time you have IVF as a young woman, there is a 25-30 per cent chance of success. But the odds don’t change in subsequent cycles – IVF is not the panacea many women think it is. We can’t change the fact that the best time to have babies is in your early 20s, even though that doesn’t fit in with society. We need to get this message across in sixth forms in school and in universities’.
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