The amount of women having children via IVF or other fertility treatment has increased within the last decade
The amount of single women having babies by themselves via IVF, donor insemination and other fertility means has more than tripled within the last 10 years. New figures released show more than 4,800 women without a partner had opted for IVF or DI in 2022 – a 243% increase from the 1,400 single women who did the same in 2012.
Not only that, but the number of women in a same-sex couple who are having fertility treatment has also more than doubled.But numbers were only slightly increased for those in a heterosexual couple. And the report also discovered that single women were an average of 36 years old when they started IVF – slightly older than heterosexual couples who were starting treatment.
Calls for a review to funding criteria Julia Chain, the HFEA's chair, said that different family groups could access a 'wide range of reproductive options when starting their fertility journey' but that many couldn't access the financial help to do so. 'However, it is disappointing that many female same-sex couples and single women still face an enormous financial hurdle to"prove" their infertility before being able to access NHS-funded IVF.'
'If tests show IVF is the only treatment likely to help you get pregnant, you should be referred straight away.'
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