IVF is a common assisted reproductive technology that can help many infertile couples successfully have healthy offspring. However, due to the complexity of the IVF technique, the probability of its success is not 100%, and many couples have failed to achieve the goal of fertility after doing it many times. Among the various factors that affect the success rate of IVF, age is very crucial, and generally speaking, the higher the age, the lower the success rate of IVF. So what is the success rate of IVF at the age of 43? Let's take a look at the real data.
What are the chances of IVF success for a 43-year-old woman?
According to the statistics of reproductive experts, the success rate of IVF for women aged 35-40 is about 50% on average, while the pregnancy rate of IVF for women over 40 years old is only 40% on average. The success rate of IVF for 43-year-old women is only about 30%.
Female fertility has a "shelf life", the best age is 24-27 years old, after the age of 30 egg quality begins to decline, after the age of 35 there is a cliff**. Therefore, at the age of 48, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the quality of your eggs, and there are limits to what doctors can do. Therefore, if older women have fertility needs, they should hurry up and do it as soon as possible. The older you get, the lower the success rate.
How can older women improve the success rate of IVF?
1. Condition your body before the test tube.
After the age of 35, women's body functions begin to plummet, and the rate of ovarian function decline is even faster, so at this time, you should do a full body examination, and also make a rational assessment of the examination report in order to grasp your own physical condition. At the same time, from 3 months before preparing for IVF, both husband and wife should start to regulate their bodies, and women who are elderly or have poor ovarian function should first regulate their ovarian function before entering the IVF cycle.
2. Natural cycle egg retrieval.
Due to the low efficacy of controlled superovulation in low-responsive older women, and natural cycle avoidance of this defect, natural cycle IVF can achieve the same outcome as COH in low-response populations, and is therefore an effective means of ovarian dysresponse.
3. Choose the third generation of test tube technology.
In older women, the low number of follicles and poor egg quality during IVF may lead to the inability to retrieve mature eggs and the formation of unhealthy embryos. Elderly women have poor uterine receptivity, low pregnancy rates, difficulty in embryo implantation, or undesirable conditions such as fetal arrest and miscarriage. Therefore, elderly women are more suitable to choose the assistance of third-generation IVF genetic testing technology. Ovulation induction can be performed twice, and the embryos grown from the two times can be screened together, so that the number of embryos that pass the screening may be higher.
To sum up, the success rate of IVF for 43-year-old women may be around 30%. But don't worry too much, everyone's physical condition is different, and the final success probability is not certain. If you want to improve the success rate, you can start with the above points. In addition, elderly couples should also pay attention to dietary nutrition, eat more protein-rich foods, such as eggs, milk, lean meat, fish, etc., and maintain a positive attitude, not too anxious and nervous.
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