1 in 100 Canadian Births Conceived With IVF
This past Saturday, the Globe and Mail newspaper had an article regarding PGD - pre implantation genetic diagnosis. I plan on writing more about that topic in the future, but in the meantime, one of the statistics that was in the article was that approximately 1% of the live births in Canada were conceived via IVF - in vitro fertilization. The 1% quote is pretty close. In 2009, there were 380 863 births in Canada , and 3160 of these were via IVF based on the statistics stated below. This is an overall rate of 0.83% of births were via IVF, which can easily be rounded up to state approximately 1%. I know a number of people who have used IVF in order to get pregnant, but I had never considered the overall percentage before. I'd share one of cute pictures of friends children who have been conceived by IVF, but even for those who are open about the conception, it feels a little too public to request permission to use a picture. One in one hundred children being born ar