Private clinics need to be clearer about the success rates for a procedure that is costly and emotionally draining
Three years ago, I had my eggs frozen at a private clinic, emerging five grand poorer with only three “viable” eggs, which are still languishing on ice, and a 5% chance of conception if I decided to use them for IVF in the future. I subsequently wrote a play about the private fertility industry and its two competing narratives. The first narrative celebrates miraculous joy at the hands of brilliant (largely male) scientists who magic children into being; the second is about the unrelenting despair of those women and men who hope, pray and pay for a child and are broken by their failure.
First, a brief statistic from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the government’s independent industry regulator: 60 babies have been born from frozen eggs in the UK since 2001. Frustratingly, it doesn’t specify how many of these were donor eggs extracted from women under 35, rather than biological mothers.
April 30, 2017 at 05:20AM
from Jemma Kennedy
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