Are pregnancies conceived by IVF ‘high risk’?

Ovulation induction agents have been prescribed since the mid-1960s and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) was introduced in the 1970s. Since that time techniques have been further developed but the aim of achieving high rates of live birth has endured. Over the past few decades, therefore, it has been common place for obstetricians to manage pregnancies conceived “artificially” and to have to cope with some of the problems and potential problems associated with the maternal characteristics of such pregnancies and the pregnancies conceived using these techniques.