Originally published October 24 2005
IVF may be behind the trend of older UK women becoming mothers
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Doctors fear that IVF (in vitro fertilization) procedures are behind the rise in the average age of British women at the time of their first child's birth from 22 in 1971 to almost 28 in 2002.
Women are risking their chances of having children because they are delaying motherhood on the basis of "false expectations" about the success of IVF treatment, experts have warned.
Two-thirds of women interviewed by researchers admitted they had put off starting a family for an average of four years.
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