Hard to Find Husband, Many Women Choose Vitro

Kompas.com - Using donor sperm and IVF techniques are now the single women who are concerned with biological age can still have a baby, although not yet found a life companion.

In recent years an increasing number of single women who want to become mothers. According to the data in the UK, in 2009 there were 1615 cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or IVF derived from donor sperm and result in 585 births. In 2010 there was an increase 21 percent by 1963 the number of IVF cycles.

"The women realize their biological clock is ticking. Hour biological men and women are different. These women are aware they can not wait to have children until their dream man emerged," said Prof.Geeta Nargund, head of reproductive medicine from St.George 's University Hospital in London.

According to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in all types of IVF there was an increase of 5.9 percent in 2010. Therapies include IVF and intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is performed by injecting a single sperm into an egg cell.

Of all the IVF treatment, 74 percent use their own eggs and 17 percent use another woman's eggs are frozen. About three percent use donor eggs and six percent use donor insemination.

The average age of women who have IVF is 35 years old. About 4 percent are women aged 43-44 years, and two percent of women aged over 45 years.

In Indonesia alone IVF procedure should only be carried out to married couples who fail to do pregnancy in a natural way due to problems in the oviduct blockage or problem in poor sperm quality. With ethical reasons IVF technique that uses a sperm and egg donation is not permitted.

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