Number of women having IVF without a man soars by 35%

Mar 16, 2018 by

by Victoria Allen, Mailonline:

A generation of women are choosing to have a baby on their own through IVF.

The number trying to start a family without a father has leapt by a third in two years.

The latest figures show 1,272 women registered to have fertility treatment without a partner in 2016 – up from 942 in 2014.

Experts say these are not necessarily career women, but often people who have simply failed to find Mr Right.

Growing numbers of women are choosing to freeze their eggs, with the most common reason being they want to put off having a child because they have no partner.

The number who have registered for IVF on their own has risen 35 per cent in two years, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said.

Couples must have tried to have a baby by having unprotected sex for two years before they qualify for IVF on the NHS, under guidance set by watchdog NICE.

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