IVF babies more likely to have birth defects, couple learns
April 30th, 2009![Yvonne Finlayson with twins, photo from [UK] Daily Mail](http://www.patriciaebauer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090430_finlayson.jpg "Yvonne Finlayson with twins, photo from [UK] Daily Mail")
From the [UK] Daily Mail:
Both of Yvonne Finlayson’s IVF twins (at left) have birth defects that have required medical treatment and surgery.
Scientists say test-tube babies are up to 30 percent more likely to come with birth defects, and Finlayson and her husband, Mark, say they feel guilty that their desperation for children may have blinded them to the risks.
The Finlaysons say they love their children and wouldn’t change them, but they wish they had gotten better information in advance They also said they would not consider further fertility treatments.
… at a time when more than 12,000 babies are born every year as a result of fertility treatment, critics have seized upon these statistics as evidence of our over-reliance upon techniques which, even the experts admit, we still know relatively little about.
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