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Originally Posted by Ice
I was shocked when the news interviewed her mother and she said they implanted 8 embryos. I can't believe a doctor would do that. All the fertility doctors they interviewed after that said that they wouldn't implant more than three because the risks to the baby and the mother were too high. What was her doctor thinking? This procedure has obviously been successful in the past. It seems colossally irresponsible to put that many embryos in one uterus.
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Agreed. This is a colossal failure in medical ethics. One of my dear friends, who underwent IVF and is expecting twins (2 embryos were implanted) said that the docs really only want you to have one because the risks get so much higher when you have multiples. But they'll always err and implant 2 because often 1 won't make it. But 8? So wrong.