Understanding IVF success rates and shortening your time to pregnancy – with the leading clinic offering a 100% money back guarantee of live birth

If you’re looking into having IVF treatment – or if you’ve walked this road for a while – you’ll have noticed that clinics often make much mention of success rates and assurances. You might see terms like ‘cumulative pregnancy rate’ and ‘live birth guarantee’. 

But how should we actually interpret what we’re reading, and what nuances should we keep in mind?

IVF is overwhelming enough. So for help with understanding IVF success rates, as well as the specific jargon around them, we should always make sure we bookmark the most reliable insight, straight from the experts. 

We’re partnering with O.L.G.A. Fertility, and their experienced team, for this mini overview. They pride themselves on transparency, high-quality and individualised treatment options, and a range of Money Back Guarantee of Live Birth packages – designed to give you the best chances of success. 

Read on as we lift the lid on success rates together, explain a few of the key terms and definitions, and dive into how an IVF live birth money back guarantee might provide a more reassuring way to look at success – and achieve it, sooner.

What do we mean by success rates for IVF?

A clinic’s success rates for IVF indicate the proportion of treatments that resulted in positive outcomes. 

What this means exactly will depend on the clinic – it could refer to patients that became pregnant, or successfully had a baby, and can also include how many of these occurred per embryo transfer, or per egg retrieval.

Typically expressed as a percentage, a higher figure would tell you that the clinic has had a greater number of successful treatments, in their eyes.

IVF pregnancy rate vs live birth rate, explained

The IVF pregnancy rate reflects the percentage of embryo transfers that led to a positive pregnancy test from those transfers performed. You might also see the term IVF clinical pregnancy rate – this refers to the percentage of embryo transfers that were followed by a detected heartbeat from those transfers performed.  

Pregnancy rate and clinical pregnancy rate percentages will also include positive tests and heartbeats that end in loss. Unfortunately, and as some of us have experienced ourselves at team TRB, loss can be a fairly common reality, even in IVF pregnancies.

The IVF live birth rate, on the other hand, only counts the percentage of embryo transfers that resulted in the birth of a baby. And in this context, cumulative live birth rate refers to the probability of achieving at least one live birth from a series of embryo transfer procedures.

The team at O.L.G.A. Fertility stands by live birth rate as the true measure of success for any fertility treatment, and will always create personalised treatment plans that examine the root causes of IVF failure to minimise the number of embryo transfers until an ongoing pregnancy and live birth are both achieved.

Understanding IVF success rates – what should our approach be?

When it comes to understanding IVF success rates, here’s the nutshell – a clinic’s rates alone won’t help you determine your chances of getting pregnant. 

For a clearer picture of a clinic’s overall quality and reliability, success rates can be useful for benchmarking, but they’re just one part of the bigger picture. Ask your clinic whether all patients are accepted regardless of age or underlying condition, whether they take egg source into account (own vs donor eggs), and whether their data shows live births per transfer of a single blastocyst embryo, or multiple. 

This will give you a clearer point of reference for comparison, as well as a good idea of their team’s honesty and transparency, too.

As an individual patient though, your success rate will always hinge on your age, personal fertility profile, and medical history.

So how can we get the most peace of mind, when we want to ensure we’re giving ourselves the best chances?

What is an IVF live birth money back guarantee?

An IVF live birth money back guarantee will offer you a partial or full percentage refund if you don’t end up having a baby.

It is an alternative way to approach IVF success and helps ensure you’re giving yourself the best chances, whilst giving you greater peace of mind as you build your family.

At O.L.G.A. Fertility, their tailored 100% Money Back Guarantee of Live Birth packages give you full financial protection if your treatment doesn’t work out.

In practice, this means that if no baby is born after the set number of attempts included in the package, you will be refunded 100% of the costs you paid for the package. It’s that simple.

Who might benefit from a live birth money back guarantee?

A live birth money back assurance can be especially beneficial for you if you’ve experienced repeated IVF failure or if you have low ovarian reserve, as it provides multiple attempts without additional financial burden. 

It also offers reassurance to same-sex couples and single parents by choice, who are having treatment with their own eggs or donor eggs. 

Plus, the O.L.G.A. Fertility team would recommend their 100% Money Back Guarantee of Live Birth if you’re just wanting financial predictability during what can be a very emotionally and financially taxing time, as the fixed costs give you predictability and reassurance that your financial commitment will only ever correlate with the outcome of a successful live birth.

Why do patients like the O.L.G.A. Money Back Guarantee of Live Birth packages?

Firstly, it means that you and your fertility team are both focused on the same goal and that your expectations are aligned. You’ll feel better able to fully entrust your medical team to handle the process and advocate for your best outcome. This takes off the stress of micromanaging your fertility journey – because (and we know this firsthand, too) life is busy and stressful enough. 

This approach also puts you in control of your fertility treatment costs until you’re able to achieve your goal of building your family. So whilst the team at O.L.G.A. Fertility is aware that this approach can’t give back the time and effort invested, it ensures your financial investment is only ever tied to the successful outcome of your treatment. 

Patients also love that treatment is designed to achieve a live birth within a minimum number of attempts. O.L.G.A. Fertility’s dedicated medical team will do everything possible to take an approach that is really personalised to you and your fertility profile, saving you time on your family building journey.

Keen to learn more, and take the next step to move your journey along? Connect with the team at O.L.G.A. Fertility for a free consultation, and ask about their 100% Money Back Guarantee of Live Birth packages.

With their European clinic located in the heart of Limassol, Cyprus, they’re ready, when you are, to get you started on a personalised treatment plan that gives you the best chances of building your family, in the shortest time possible.