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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Fun with Statistics

A couple of months ago, my RE told my husband and me that our chance of conceiving naturally was 2-3% per cycle.

The error rate of condoms (before taking human error into account) is 2-3%.

So could you say that as my husband and I are getting busy au naturale 3 or 4 times during my "fertile" phase, we have the same chance of getting pregnant as a couple using condoms?

Moral: Never tell someone infertile that it will "just happen in time."

2 comments:

  1. *sigh*
    It's a sad statistic, isn't it? I seemingly remember Dr.S giving me the same speech.

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  2. HI there, visiting from ICLW (#110). My RE gave me the same stats at my first appointment as well and I remember being horrified. Good luck wuth your next cycle!

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