NRC

Success Rates

Nikki's success rate after 7 years of treating couples with infertility is 80%.  This includes 2 years as a naturopathic student.

Foresight is a British Association for the promotion of preconception care and was established in the United Kingdom in 1978. A foresight study conducted in 1995 involving 367 couples clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of preconception health care. The study lasted for two years with women in the study ranging in age from 22-45 years and the men from 25-59 years. By the end of the study there were no miscarriages, perinatal deaths or malformations and no baby admitted to intensive care. A "normal" expectation from 367 couples would be 70 miscarriages and 6 malformations.
 

Presenting with a previous history of: Percentage in sample
Infertility 37 %
Miscarriage 38 %
Therapeutic abortion 11 %
Stillbirth 3 %
"Small for dates" or low birth weight babies 15 %
Malformations 2 %
SIDS 1 %
Outcome Percentage in sample
Live births 89 %
Live births to those previously infertile 81 %
Average gestational age 38.5 weeks
Earliest gestational age 36 weeks

Foresight conducted a further study in 2003 with 1061 couples showing similar outcomes as the first study. 78.4% of infertile couples conceived within two years of following the program, leading to a healthy baby.  This study suggests a more than doubled conception success rate for IVF, following a preconception care plan.