Decision Making Process Women Options Men Options Complementary/Alternative Care Emotional Support Adoption Consulting   Decision Making Process   Patients aspiring to become a family while going through fertility treatment may have a high emotional toll. This is usually related to the stress involved with the decision making to choose the best fertility treatment for their specific needs. The uncertainty, the odds, the risks, the time involved, the interference with daily activities, the possible impact in the financial and emotional credit cards may be overwhelming. For this reason RMA of Texas has created a table that incorporates all the different dimensions that play a role in the decision making to better determine what the best treatment for you is.   FERTILITY TREATMENT DECISION MAKING TABLE   • RMA of Texas Fertility Treatment Decision Making Table (.pdf) • RMA of Texas Fertility Treatment Decision Making Table (.ppt)   Fertility Treatment Decision Making Table < 35 years     Normal Fertile Couple Infertile Timed Intercousrse Clomiphene + Inseminations Injectables + Insemination IVF < 35 DIMENSION Fecundity rate     8-10% 17-25% 60% Time 1 month 20% 2% 8% 17% 60%   2 month 36% 4% 15% 31% 84%   3 month 49% 6% 22% 43% 90%   4 month 59% 8% 39% 67%     12 month 93% 22%         18 month 98% 30%         24 month 99% 38%       Social/Logistics   N/A learn an ovulation predictor method some office visits, monitoring self daily injections, blood tests, monitoring, several office visits self injections, blood tests, monitoring, several office visits, anesthesia Medical Risks Singleton 99 out of 100 99 out of 100 13 out of 14 12 out of 15 2 out of 3   Twins 1 out of 100 1 out of 100 1 out of 14 1 out of 5 1 out of 3   Triplets 1 out of 8000 1 out of 8000 1 out of 250 1 out of 20 1 out of 40   Quadruplets extremely rare extremely rare 1 out of 350 1 out of 33 1 out of 110   Hyperstimulation requiring hospitalization N/A N/A very rare 1 out of 100 1 out of 100 Financial Cost approx $ - - 950 1,550 + meds $8500 +meds Emotional Emotional credit card assess individually assess individually assess individually assess individually assess individually