Billing fertility awareness approach is cheaper, less painful and more effective than IVF

ACCORDING to your report (December 11), most Irish people would now consider using IVF if faced with the heartbreak of infertility.

But going through IVF can be a very traumatic experience. It obliges women to take powerful drugs first to stop ovulation and then to stimulate it. These drugs often cause great physical and emotional distress.

In addition, the wife feels separated from her husband and handed over to technicians, while he feels sidelined from the conception of his own child. As a result, IVF has broken up marriages.