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If you’re already frantically reading your insurance booklet and shaking the piggy bank in hopes of finding a few spare thousand dollars to pay for high-tech infertility treatments, you may take comfort in the following statistic: Only around 3 percent of infertile couples end up doing high-tech treatment like in vitro fertilization to get pregnant (You can find everything you need to know about IVF in Chapters 15 to 18.)

But IVF has been a boon to those seeking to conceive. Since the first IVF baby (Louise Brown in 1978 in England), over 6 million babies have been born through IVF. That number is expected to explode to 200 million by the end of this century. Considering Dr. John Rinehart’s look back to the early days of success, IVF has come a long way: “In the early days of IVF, success was so rare that we would buy a bottle of champagne for each woman who delivered a baby. Today, it would take a vineyard to supply that much champagne.”