According to a study done at the University of Melbourne, there are no developmental differences between children who are conceived naturally or through in-vitro fertilization.
The university researchers assessed more than 400,000 Victorian children born between 2005 and 2013, including 11,059 who were conceived through IVF. They observed the children’s developmental and educational results in the Australian Early Development Census and the National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy. The study, published in the international journal PLOS Medicine, found there were no differences between the children conceived naturally or via IVF. The researchers looked at the children's developmental and educational results in the Australian Early Development Census and the National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy. In the past according researcher Amber Kennedy, there was some concerning evidence that suggested that IVF-conceived children may have poorer school-aged outcomes compared with their spontaneously conceived peers. Through her comprehensive analysis and massive dataset her findings that were expounded, provided important reassurance for clinicians and for current and future parents of IVF-conceived children.
There have been More than eight million babies have been born worldwide using IVF, while about five per cent of Australian children are now conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
