Infertility Statistics - Good News Or Bad?

Struggling with infertility and the accompanied problems it brings can sometimes make couples feel very alone and without any support. Most will look at other couples that are blessed with children and it might go through their minds about how unfair it all is and why are they the ones that have to go through this.

But unfortunately they are not the only ones and even if it might be unfair their are thousands of other couples that are facing the same problems. There are more than 7.5 million couples that are struggling with infertility or miscarriage in America at the moment.

These couples don't even get any warning that this is lying in store for them until they are trying to start a family. Their infertility problems only crop up in most cases when nothing happens when it is suppose to or when something go wrong when it is not.

The lucky ones are the ones that somehow managed to have conceived and had children of their own and only later learn that they have a medical condition that should have interfered with their fertility. Sadly in most cases, couples are not so lucky.

When looking at other couples with children we are unaware of the infertility struggles they had to wrestle with in some cases. Almost 12% of woman that are looking to fall pregnant, before they are 45, will have to undergo fertility treatments to fulfill their dream of having their own child.

A further five and a halve percent will have to receive some kind of medical procedure to assist with threatening possible miscarriage problems.

Whereby infertility diagnostic tests will amount to a further almost five percent and another almost four percent will receive medication to assist with their ovulation. Just over one percent will receive artificial insemination procedures. Issues in carrying a viable full term pregnancy will account for almost twelve percent.

With the loss of eggs and the decrease of the quality of the eggs due to age most older women can expect some kind of infertility issues. But statistics don't stop here, of women in the thirty five to thirty nine years age group, just over fifteen percent received infertility procedures.

For women in the thirty to thirty four year old age group, seventeen percent will receive infertility treatment. Almost twenty seven and a halve percent of women between forty and forty four years of age are infertile. This drop to twenty two and a halve percent for women between thirty five to thirty nine years of age.

With almost seventeen percent of women in the thirty and thirty four year old age group suffering from infertility. Even though the statistics paint a grim picture for some, for most it will still be possible to become pregnant. The following statistics gives hope.

IVF made it possible for thirty eight percent of thirty one year old women to become pregnant.
Twenty two percent of thirty nine year old women was helped by IVF procedures.
Where only ten percent of women age forty three found help through IVF treatments.

But even then, if donor eggs that was harvested from younger women was used, the IVF success rate for women over forty jump to a high forty five percent.