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Parents say in vitro costly, but worth it.
2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In vitro fertilization typically costs more than $10,000 for a successful pregnancy, but the dollars are worth it, say couples who became parents through the technique.
Several hundred people got together on September 7, 2003, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, for a gathering of parents and their children born though in vitro fertilization - the technique in which egg and sperm are incubated in a Petri dish and the embryo implanted in the mother.
"To me it was worth every cent and every minute spent," said one South Carolina woman who spent hours driving back and forth to Mount Pleasant for treatment and monitoring before she became pregnant.
The procedure results in a successful pregnancy about half the time on the first try for couples younger than 35.
Many couples want to have children but can't, said John Schnorr, a doctor at the Southeastern Fertility Center. About one in six couples experiences periods of infertility, he said. "Infertility is very common, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Parents say in vitro costly, but worth it.