I agree with Odette , statistics mean nothing to me when i'm holding our daughter.. DH and i have a beautiful little girl she's now 21 months and was conceived with ICSI... She was diagnosed with two heart defects at 12mths (well actually they were picked up at birth but at 6 months her peadatrician :evil: told us that they had miraculously dissappeared and being so happy to hear that we didn't pursue it again until it was picked up at 12months by my GP) and had surgery to correct them at 14mths. .. may need further surgery later not sure yet though. She is an absolute joy and despite her problems is a very active little girl. .

Do we blame ICSI.. we don't really know because my cousin who has a 4 year old daughter was also born with heart defects and she was conceived the old fashioned way.. So i think alot of it here has to do with poor genes... maybe maybe not...

I guess what i'm trying to say is how many babies did they test from being born with defects after being conceived via IVF or similar may have ended up with birth abnormalities anyway due to heredity ??