IVF, Octomom, and Irresponsible Medicine
You may have heard that Dr. Michael Kamrava transfered 12 embryos into Nadia Suleman (octomom) and was kicked out of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as a result. This number is really beyond shocking. For my age, 35, I would have had to beg my doctors to transfer 3 embryos and signed a waiver. Even in women over 40 four embryos is a lot. Nadia was 32 when she had the IVF and she had no infertility diagnosis. Meaning she is in fact fertile which increases her chances of successful pregnancy substantially. Since our infertility is male factor I too am considered...
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I’ve been starting to feel better here this week. The meds help me not throw up which is wonderful (I HATE to throw up) but they also make me very tired. I really have, for the first time, a drive to bounce back so I think that must mean I’m feeling better. Or, it just means I’m so SICK of being sick that I’m forcing my head above water. So, this won’t really be a true Sunday Surf because I still haven’t cracked open my Google Reader but I did find a really moving article on FB that I wanted to share. You can always see what I’m reading at my...
Read MoreI’m Miserable
If you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all. Good advice in many instances. Sometimes, however, forcing yourself not to talk about the “bad” blocks the good too. This is where I’ve been. I haven’t blogged about the good things in my life (and there are plenty – for example we are officially cloth diapering!) because I’m trying too hard to hold back the bad things I want to talk about. So, this is going to be a bitching post. Consider yourself warned. This has not been a happy pregnancy. I mean – I’m...
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