Nichola Bedos - Author, Mother & Parent Infant Counsellor
Moment by Moment is proud to be stocking IVF & Ever After The Emotional Nees of Families. Below are sme details on the Author Nichola Bedos along with some very interesting IVF Facts and Stats.
IVF & Ever After – About the Author
The author Nichola Bedos is a specialist Parent-Infant Counsellor, in private practice in Sydney, and has worked with 150 families over the last 8 years. She has two sons of her own. Her second son was found to have grave complications during pregnancy, was delivered 6 weeks early and had six operations in his first year. Her struggle to help him achieve normal development led her to study psychology and later gain a Master of Social Science in Counselling. She is an accomplished freelance writer with 10 years’ experience writing for health and parenting magazines in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia and is a Contributing Editor for Nature and Health Magazine. She is a regular speaker at parenting forums.
Interesting facts and figures
•There are 80 million couples suffering infertility worldwide, and 1 in 6 Australian couples suffers infertility.
•According to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, 3 million IVF babies have been born worldwide since the first IVF birth of Louise Brown in 1978.
•200,000 babies were born in the world after IVF last year, the rate is increasing by 10% every year and in Australia 10,000 IVF babies will be born this year, 4% of all births in this country in 2007.
•More than 50% of all IVF deliveries are by Caesarean.
•41,000 IVF cycles currently begin in Australia annually. The current overall success rate of IVF in Australia is approaching 25%, a doubling of the success rate over the last twenty years. A twenty-four year old woman has four and a half times the chance of IVF cycle success compared to a 40 year old woman using her own eggs.
•The first baby born after a frozen cycle arrived in 1984, there are now 6 million frozen embryos worldwide waiting for a decision as to their fate.
•6% of IVF couples use a donor – either egg, sperm or embryo
•IVF couples are 9 times more likely to have twins than non-IVF couples
•Doctors believe PGD (Pre-implantation Genetic Testing) will double the current success rate of IVF over the next decade.
•The advent of PGD, the older age of couples trying for a baby and the decreasing fertility rate is set to change the face of human reproduction with 3 out of every 10 babies conceived by IVF by the time our kids become parents.
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