Bay IVF Experts Witness Rise in Single-by-Choice Moms
More women using in vitro fertilization for solo parenting, reflecting latest CDC report of record levels of American babies born to single mothers.

SAN RAMON, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest report of a
national boom in single motherhood is being felt in Northern California, where fertility physicians are noting sharp growth in the number of women patients using assisted reproductive technology to pursue parenting without partners.

"One in 10 of my patients is now a single woman," said Susan P. Willman, M.D. reproductive endocrinologist at the Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area. "While fertility centers traditionally have treated couples, we are seeing a larger percent of women who would feel they have to make a choice of parenting alone or perhaps not at all."

According to a November 2006 report from the Centers for Disease Control, nearly four in 10 babies were born in the United States in 2005 to single mothers, up from 35 percent of births in 2003. the rest