Assisted Conception In Practice

The route into IVF treatment can be extremely haphazard. Ideally, the National Health Service should ensure that women who need treatment get it - and that there is some fairness about access to it. The reality is far from that. Organising treatment often depends more on the individual woman's energy and determination than on her needs. You may need to think about support from a counsellor, or a patient support group. Friends and family are important too, although it can be hard to decide how much to tell how many people.

When it comes to organising treatment, in effect there are three choices: National Health Service, private or a combination of the two. For many women the decision is made for them. Access to treatment under the NHS is severely limited. Only ten per cent of women who have IVF manage to get it on the NHS. Most women will find themselves excluded either because they fail to meet the criteria required, or because their health authority does not spend any money on IVF. Others find that the waiting lists are too long: spending years going through tests only to find yourself at the bottom of a queue that is several more years long, with your biological clock ticking away, can simply be too much. However, many more women are excluded from the private sector by the high prices involved, not just in the actual treatment, but in travel, accommodation and other J incidentals.

It is important to make sure that you get continuity of care - whether at an NHS or private clinic - and that you have confidence in the people treating you, so that you feel you can rely on their advice, even if that may at some stage be to accept that treatment will not work for you.

Shirley M. Duran is a mother of two and an author of a variety of related lifestyle issues and topics with which has helped hundreds of mothers become pregnant. If you have any pregnancy questions for which you need answers, it is recommended to visit: http://mypregnancyquestions.info/

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