Millennials are very overconfident about their future fertility

17.04.2015

A new study claims that an overwhelming number of young people are overconfident in their abilities to conceive in their 30s, once their career gets going.

Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey released the study to coincide with National Infertility Awareness Week. It was found in the study that 95 percent of those who expect to try to have children in the next five years are confident in their ability to do so when the time is right.

According to researchers of conducted study a healthy, fertile, 30-year-old woman actually only has a 20 percent chance of conceiving naturally each month.

As for the awareness around the science of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the survey found that misconceptions still prevail, especially around the need to transfer more than one embryo to improve the chances of conceiving.

While this may have been true in the past, an overwhelming 87 percent of survey respondents believed this to still be true today. This number climbed even further with individuals actively trying to get pregnant (94 percent) and those expecting to try within five years (90 percent).

By using a process that encompasses Comprehensive Chromosome Screening (CCS) and Single Embryo Transfer (SET), patients are able to achieve delivery rates equivalent to implanting multiple embryos, while reducing the risk associated with multiple deliveries and lowering the total cost of care.

Also the have survey found that that 55 percent of individuals who have experienced infertility believe it is more stressful than unemployment, and 61 percent of that same group believe it is more stressful than divorce.

Based on: myfoxny.com

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