Somewhere between the third clinic website and the fourth Reddit thread, the numbers stop adding up. 

One place advertises a 60% success rate, the next says something in the 40s, a forum swears by a clinic with "the highest rates in the state." Each of those numbers is real. They just aren't answering the same question.

A "success rate" isn't one fixed thing. What it means depends on what's behind it, who got counted, which patients, which ages, whether it's measured per cycle or per pregnancy. Two clinics with nearly identical results can report very different figures, all of them technically true. The useful step is knowing which number you're looking at.

The Only Rate That's Really About You

The one you want to know is your odds from one round of IVF – a round starts with an egg retrieval, where your eggs are collected and fertilized in a lab, and the embryos that result are transferred to your uterus, some right away, some frozen for later. So the figure to look for is the share of single rounds that end with a baby. And the biggest factor in it isn't the clinic, it's age. 

In the 2024 national data, one round led to a live birth 41.7% of the time for patients under 35 using their own eggs, 29.6% at 35 to 37, 18.5% at 38 to 40, and into the single digits past 40. Same procedure, very different odds, mostly because egg quality shifts over time.

One Round Is Rarely the Whole Story

Those per-round figures describe a single retrieval, and most women don't stop at one. On average it takes about 2.5 rounds before a viable pregnancy, and the odds accumulate with each attempt. In one analysis of more than 91,000 women, a 30-year-old's estimated chance of a baby rose from about 41% after one full round to roughly 75% across three. A per-round number and a per-patient number can describe the same person and still look very different.

What to Ask Before You Commit

A few things make a quoted rate easier to read. 

Look for the live birth rate per retrieval for your age group rather than the all-ages figure. Check how many rounds the clinic's average patient needs. And weigh how many rounds you could realistically do. A single round commonly runs $15,000 to $25,000 with medication, and most people need more than one, so cost shapes the real odds as much as anything in the data.

That last point is really what FLORA was built for, so the number of rounds you get comes down to what you need and not what you can scrape together. We'd rather have that part handled long before you're in the middle of it. Apply here.