Conceive Using Infertility Treatments

In recent years infertility treatments have come under the spotlight. It is not because they help a couple have a child but rather the age the woman reproduces and how many children can be conceived using infertility treatments. A few years back a woman named Adriana Iliescu gave birth to a little girl in Hungary. Normally a woman giving birth would not make world wide news. Adriana’s birth was different. She became the official record holder of the world’s oldest female to give birth. She was sixty-six years of age.

One of the chief complaints regarding Adriana and her infertility treatments was that she was too old to produce her own eggs. Critics raged that biology had proved its natural selection process by stopping her monthly cycle. Some infertility clinics have an age limit in which they will work with but there are some that will undertake a client no matter the age.

Once a woman reaches menopause her body no longer undergoes ovulation (when an egg is released from the ovary) and has reached the age when Mother Nature has deemed the woman past child bearing age. The debate over the age where limits should be imposed for infertility treatments is a very hot topic. It is acceptable for a man to have children well into his nineties but should a woman be refused fertility treatments if she is past a certain age?

Fertility rates go up dramatically when drugs or treatments are used. Along with this increase in rates of fertility also rises the number of children born in one gestation cycle. Infertility treatments have brought about a great number of multiple births. It is not uncommon to hear of twins, triplets or even quadruplets being born. The highest number of fetuses recorded has been fifteen but the highest number born and surviving more than a few days has been octuplets (that is eight babies). Imagine the amounts of formula, diapers and bottles eight babies require.

Infertility clinics are well aware of the controversies raging regarding the age of the mother-to-be as well as the responsibilities of multiple births. Some groups maintain that many of these parents of multiples assume that the government or organizations will step in to help with the financial burden that multiple children can bring about. Maybe they hope that there will be some sort of contribution on behalf of corporations or perhaps even a television show detailing their lives.

Infertility treatments are up to each individual. Some treatment plans work where others do not. None of the options are without expenses so careful consideration and financial planning must be accounted for. As with any medical treatment plan there are risks and it bears paying attention to the possibility of getting more than one mouth to feed at a time.