Byline: COLIN FERNANDEZ
t10 led tubeCAREER women are abandoning sex and turning to IVF treatment to have instant babies, medical experts have warned.
They take up the treatment long before exhausting the natural alternative because they are too busy or tired to have sex, doctors claimed.
In some circles, according to one expert, women see having a baby as 'no different from putting your name down for a handbag'.
As well as career factors, many women are pressured by parents, typically in their 70s, who want to become grandparents.
They turn to IVF, which costs up to [pounds sterling]4,000 for one treatment, despite the need for general anaesthetic and fertility drugs which can have unpleasant side effects.
The treatment is seen as a way of beating the odds, as the chances of a women under 35 getting pregnant with one treatment of IVF is about one in three.
A woman the same The Bangles Eternal age who had sex once every three days for a month would have only a one-in-four chance of conception.
Professor Bill Ledger, a specialist in fertility problems at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, said: 'There is a rapidly growing number of career women wanting IVF.
As more and more are waiting until their 30s and 40s before trying for a family, biologically the odds are stacked against them at that stage.'
Michael Dooley, a gynaecologist and fertility expert at the Westover House clinic in South-West London, said he had seen a 20 per cent increase in the number of women seeking 'inappropriate' IVF treatment.
He said: 'Many of these couples are simply not having sex or not having enough sex.
Conception has become too clinical.
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'There has been a trend away from having sex and loving relationships.'
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