Better IVF

Better embryos, better odds with IVF after 38.

Advocacy for women who want every evidence-based edge. Find community and explore IVF research, so you can walk into your next cycle knowing all your options.

A watercolour blastocyst

Three places to begin, depending on where you are.

Latest research

PICSI

A novel way to pick the right sperm before fertilisation. The older you are, the greater its impact on improving miscarriage rates.

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39%
fewer miscarriages, at the same pregnancy rate
A statistically significant drop. The live-birth benefit is largest for women over 35, who were a minority of the trial.

PGT-A decoder

Make sense of your embryo chromosome-testing results. Enter your numbers and see what euploid, mosaic and aneuploid really mean for your next decision.

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The euploidy guide

How age shapes the odds of a chromosomally normal embryo, and the evidence-based steps that may shift those odds in your favour.

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Not a numbers game. Or not the way people mean it.

7.0% → 4.3%
PICSI: miscarriage fell in the HABSelect trial, a 39% relative drop.
4.12×
Growth hormone: higher live-birth odds for women over 40, where the effect is largest.
94% to 99.98%
The live-birth chance after 3 versus 5 euploid embryos transferred.

Explore the research, visually.

Interactive explorers that turn the trials into something you can move through, by age and by dose.

HabSelect Trial Data Explorer

PICSI ICSI 28 44 her age

Move through the ages and watch how PICSI shifts live-birth and miscarriage odds, drawn straight from the HABSelect randomised trial. See exactly where the benefit is largest, and where it is not.

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HGH Meta-Analysis Data Explorer

Euploid rate without growth hormone
about 20%
Euploid rate with growth hormone
about 35%

Explore the pooled evidence on human growth hormone (HGH) for older women: the extra blastocysts, the euploidy shift and the live-birth effects across the studies, broken down by dose and by age.

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Imagine if every woman over forty had a roadmap to follow, based on her body and her history.

Imagine if PGT-A reports helped us understand the real potential for each of our embryos.

Imagine if the world prepared women better for the impact of age on our fertility.

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Michelle Bourke
I don't do this work of advocacy for older women because it is comfortable. I do it because these decisions are crucial to the ability to turn dreams into the potential for reality.
Michelle, founder of Better IVF

Because women after 38 deserve more.

You are not alone, and you have options. Wherever you are in this, there is usually a next step worth taking. Let's find yours.