IVF treatment?

Question

will you please help me and tell me some contentious(debatable) issues of ivf treatment . thankyou

Answer 1

well, i will be undergoing ivf later this year. im not sure of what you want to know about it. are you considering this procedure, if so...i wish you the best. i know the procedure is risky, but i will take that chance just to have a child. its a high risk for multiple births tho since they do implant at least 2 embryos in the uterus.....if you're over 35, they implant 3. the outcome will be worth it tho.

Answer 2

When I was going through infertility, my husband and I investigated IVF and rejected it was not worth the number of deaths of our embroys for such a slim chance of succeeding.

IVF only has a 25% success rate, but they define success as "pregnant women." Many of your own offspring die in the process of acheiving that 25% success rate, and the system does not recognize those human embryos as human beings. The embryos are basically tortured and mistreated through the entire process. My thing was, "Do I want to be a mother so badly, I will sacrifice the lives of dozens of my own kids just so I can have one?"

The answer was no. I wanted a baby very badly, but I wanted ALL of the ones made from my eggs and my husband's sperm, not just one of them. And IVF was just too inhumane. I believe we calculated that by the time IVF works the first time, the best odds one of your embryos has to survive is only 9%! And it goes down after that.

Then there is the whole freezing issue. There are THOUSANDS of frozen embryos and half as many parents who just don't know what to do with them, so they basically leave them frozen until the embryos die from the trauma. My personal opinion is if you wouldn't do it to a newborn, you shouldn't do it to your own embryo.

And, of course, if you do decide to risk your own embryos, you have the "joy" of being pressured into selective reduction, which is just a nice way of saying, "Pick which one of your babies that I will kill right now." *shudder*

With additional testing we found an answer to our "unexplained infertility" that did not require IVF, only IUI. After that, I've had no trouble conceiving babies and I've had two since the first.

If we could not have found an answer, we would have adopted over doing the IVF because it's so inhumane to the embryos.

Answer 3

My sister has been through the stress and strains of IVF 3 times. My nephew is now nine weeks old. It was a terrible strain on my sister and brother in law. At times we wondered how they would stay together. The treatment is extremely invasive and carries quite a few risks such as ovarian hyper stimulation. The drugs can make you suffer mood swings etc and can be difficult to administer, but my sister and brother in law would do it all again tomorrow now they have their little boy. He is their little miracle.
Good luck and all the best x

Answer 4

What do you do with the eggs?

Eggs Fertilized and hubby divorces you and wants them destroyed. (there was a court case in the papers; I don't know result)
Not fertilized and divorced.
Woman dies. (husband wants to use surrogate; woman's family wants the eggs for their use or destroyed)
Both die (actually, this has been decided in court, but there is a court proceeding where the sister of the woman wants the eggs since she can't have children otherwise; they were not fertilized;).
Leftover eggs: choose who gets them (your criteria); release to clinic (clinic chooses criteria), destroyed, given to research
Your eggs accidentally given to someone else (fertilized or not).

There is already a case in court where a surrogate was implanted with couple's fertilized eggs. Baby has Downs Syndrome and couple doesn't want baby; they argue that she didn't take tests to determine whether fetus had a genetic problem and they would have chosen abortion. Legally, surrogate is still mother but this wasn't her baby and she doesn't want to raise it.

Hope that gives you enough examples and ideas. Only some of these issues have actually come up in court. Rare so far, but as more eggs stay in storage, it is something lawmakers have to decide on now.

Answer 5

hi I'm going through my third attempt at ivf its really draining having to inject every day.I've also been hospitalised due to over stimulation which made really sick for about 4 days i also had problems when i had my embryos collected so they had to be frozen but to me all this will be worth it if a have the baby i long for and if not then if not i will look into adoption

Answer 6

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