Assisted conception for single mothers by choice yields comparable birth outcomes

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Add as preferred source Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The children of single mothers who conceive through medically assisted reproduction (MAR) have birth outcomes similar to those of babies born to partnered mothers who conceived naturally, a UCL-led study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology has found.

Babies of single mothers by choice were also less likely to have low birth weight or to be born preterm than babies of single mothers who conceived naturally, as well as children of partnered mothers who conceived with MAR techniques such as IVF.