IVF May Increase Risk Of Stillbirths!

According to the recent studies, women who consume with the help of fertility treatments such as IVF are at four times the risk of having stillbirths. Research said that women who consume with the help of fertility procedures such as IVF and ICSI were at more risk compared to women who consume naturally.

Research proved that risk of stillbirths for women who consume naturally or non-IVF procedures was 4.3 per 1,000 pregnancies, whereas the risk associated with IVF and ICSI was 16.2 per 1,000 pregnancies.

The findings also proved that the reason for women who are at greater risk of stillbirths with IVF and ICSI is mainly due to their age. But the research does not completely find whether it is IVF or ICSI that increase the risk of stillbirths.

Researchers already proved that risk of multiple pregnancies is greater with fertility treatments and also the research proved that risk of low birth weight, preterm births and other serious health problems is greater with multiple pregnancies. So, women who are undergoing IVF should get single embryo transfer to reduce the risk of multiple pregnancies.