More women than ever are going it alone with IVF — I’ll be one of them

3,548. That’s the number of single women who underwent IVF alone in just the last year.

That’s an 82% increase on the figure from 2019, or 1,595 more women, who are choosing to become single parents through fertility treatment.

Yes, heterosexual couples still make up 90% of the IVF patients, according to HFEA’s (the UK’s independent regulator of…