Trying to Conceive and the Risk of Multiples
Date posted: July 29, 2009
The goal of trying to conceive can overwhelm some women, and even their doctors, and the outcome may not always be bright. The outcome is obviously trying for a positive pregnancy test and ultimately a healthy baby. However, the methods used to get that positive pregnancy test are sometimes unethical and can put the mom-to-be and her unborn children at risk during pregnancy and in the future. What am I talking about? Large multiple births. Just look at Jon and Kate Gosselin with their huge family and Nadya Suleman. Sure, both have secured television shows and most likely their children will be taken care of. However, not all families with large sets of multiples will have million dollar television shows. In most cases the family is lucky if their church helps out or local stores donate diapers and/or formula. The vast majority of couples who find themselves pregnant with three, four, five, or six babies are setting themselves up for an uncertain future. So many things can go so wrong that it begs the question of how ethical it is to implant so many eggs to begin with. Sure, the more eggs that are implanted means the better chance of one taking and a single pregnancy resulting. However, every egg implanted could potentially become a baby and very few couples are mentally, physically, and financially prepared to care for so many babies. That is especially the case if the babies have health problems.
I bring this situation up because in the moment the idea of implanting six or seven eggs sounds like a good one. Maybe one or two, or at the most three, will implant and you will have a readymade family. Nobody thinks all the eggs will become babies and although it’s rare, it happens. So, if you are going in for implantation soon and your doctor doesn’t seem to have a problem with implanting as many eggs as you want regardless of rules and guidelines be sure to stress the max number of eggs to be implanted. In my mind, three eggs should be the max, but then again it’s easy to come up with opinions of the way things should be done when looking from the outside in. Regardless of where you stand make sure that you talk with your doctor and come up with a plan that will work for you and your future family.
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