| Whether you have been trying to conceive for | | | | Different practitioners who are qualified in one field or |
| months or many years, the idea of facing an array | | | | specialise in one area of infertility treatments are less |
| of infertility treatments can be daunting to even the | | | | likely to take a comprehensive approach to the |
| most positive of couples. | | | | management of it. The very frustrating part for |
| Deciding whether to pursue the use of fertility drugs | | | | couples trying different approaches is that time is |
| and or IVF is a major decision. There will be physical, | | | | slipping by; they become more and more anxious and |
| mental, emotional and monetary costs that for some | | | | start to rush toward the idea of more drugs or IVF. |
| just cannot be afforded. | | | | There are many critical pieces that make up the |
| The average cost of one IVF cycle is approximately | | | | fertility puzzle and knowing what they are can be the |
| $10,000US. It has been reported by analysts that, | | | | difference between success and failure to conceive. |
| due to needing several cycle attempts, the average | | | | For example, did you know the startling fact that |
| IVF cost for those women lucky enough to succeed | | | | fertility is four times greater with a normal menstrual |
| is approximately $35,000US. For woman over 40 the | | | | cycle than those cycles falling ten days or more |
| average cost is as much as $132,000US due to the | | | | outside the 'norm' or that a preconception care plan |
| need for even more cycle attempts, and these are | | | | can increase the chance of success by as much as |
| the lucky ones who succeeded. | | | | 80%? |
| Serious decisions require serious questions and honest | | | | Getting pregnant is not just about one solution, one |
| answers. Before resorting to drugs or IVF the | | | | drug or one secret. Getting pregnant is reliant on a |
| question to ask is "Have we done all we possibly can | | | | vast range of factors being in sync at once to |
| naturally?" Even if you have already gone down the | | | | maximise your chances of conceiving. Many couples |
| drugs and IVF path without success you should still | | | | who have undergone IVF combined with |
| ask this very same question. | | | | preconception care and or acupuncture have shown |
| Many couples will seek assistance from one or two | | | | higher conception rates. |
| specialists, who will each have their own ideas on | | | | Natural fertility specialists' generally offer |
| how to 'treat' their case. Some will insist that they | | | | comprehensive treatments to infertility and are an |
| simply need to improve the timing of their conception | | | | excellent place to begin a 'whole' approach to trying |
| attempts, another that they should just relax and 'let | | | | to conceive. |
| it happen when it happens.' | | | | |