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For couples married several years and still waiting for first pregnancy, it could be really frustrating and disappointing; more so if you are thinking that it is only you as a couple who are in this situation. Perhaps this situation is worsened by the celebration of the newborn baby of someone you know. Actually, you are not the only ones who face the challenge of infertility. To give you much-needed perspective about this issue, you may want to check on this infertility statistics.
In the US alone, the record shows that there are more than 7 million women, including those teenage girls who are going to be wives someday, who face this problem. Some of them are still unaware that this is the situation they will face in the future, while some of them are already grieving because of this fact. Although some will experience first pregnancy, but due to infertility cases, some will not be able to deliver the child safely. But there are also some infertile couples who are now happy with their child like other ordinary couples.
This is because some couples who are having problems of infertility spent lots of money and time for the therapy just to conceive and become successful in giving birth to their own baby. There are actually more similar stories related to this therapy as a treatment for infertility. It's just that not all people are aware.
Based on records and statistical studies, 12% of the female population throughout the United States, that is about 7.3 million females with ages ranging from 15 to 44. It is recorded that 6% of them were given recommendations or advice regarding infertility treatment, while 5.5% of them were able to undergo therapy or treatment to resolve infertility and to avoid the chances of miscarriage. Around 3.8% of them were given ovulation medication to make the fertilization possible and only 1% of them were treated with artificial insemination. You will notice that the figures are just a low percentage, but these women are significant in number.
We all know that as women age, the body system changes and become less capable of conceiving. This is why when the age range concentrates on women within the age-group of 35 to 39, the percentage of infertility that considers or undergoes treatments is increased to 15.2%. Moreover, the percentage for the women within the age of 30 to 34 with infertility cases seeking treatment is noticeably increased, perhaps because more of them are determined to have kids and that their age is not so old as to make them give up on achieving pregnancy. But based on records, women within the age group of 29 and below are not as likely to seek treatment.
Fertility treatments are often very helpful to the couple having difficulty in conceiving a child. There may not be no exact records of how many have acquired the help of fertility treatments and succeed but we can be sure that these minor to moderate cases have a higher percentage of success. The treatments could be the IVF or the in vitro fertilization, medications, hormone balancing, and simple charting of ovulation, plus the egg donation as another answer for fertility.
This success rate tends to become lower as the age of women goes up. The success rate is reduced to 22% for women at 39 years of age and 10% when the age is 40. It only shows that, if the couple is having difficulty in fertilization, it would give them higher rate of fertility success if they will seek help or treatments as early as possible.
But in some cases wherein the woman is around 40 years old or above and planning to have successful pregnancy, the best suggestion may be the egg-donor option, as this has a 45% success rate. The bottom line is that there are many others who deal with this problem, and there is a good chance for success with the right treatment.
Michael Key has written extensively for 30 years on a wide variety of technical issues. For more information on infertility statistics look for his new book "Secrets of Infertility Relief" available only at InfertilityRelief.com.
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