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Selective reduction!!
Well I went to my doctors today and had an ultrasound (I'm 6 weeks) and to my surprise (big surprise) the doctor found 4 maybe 5 heartbeats. I was so surprised. I knew I had 6 matured follicles when I did the iui but I didn't think 5 of those would actually implant. Now they are telling me that I have to get a selective reduction and reduce the pregnancy to a twin pregnancy. I am so sad and scared. Has anyone ever been through a selective reduction? What was it like and how painful was it?
I would never be able to go through with it either theres just no way i could ever do such a thing!! As the ladies said though only you can deicide whats right to do! I did want to put my input though has any1 heard of the Wilkinson Quints? They live in Austin TX they wanted just one more baby they had a boy and a girl and were having trouble conceiving the last so they did the treatments and wound up with quints and she never reduced infact she got the best dr in the country in AZ and they babies were all born healthy and fine!! They were actually so big they hold the guiness book of world records for the heaviest total amount of weight for quints!! Heres their website if any1 wants to see they are very cute babies!!
http: // wilkinsonquints. org/ (no spaces)
http: // wilkinsonquints. org/ (no spaces)
tiredbuthappy- I do have to admit that I know someone who recently found out they were having quints but early on in the pregnancy 3 of them died and were absorbed into the mother's body. So now she's only having twins.
I think that if a woman's body is capable of naturally selecting which ones live, then that's fine. But I still wouldn't be able to selectively reduce myself. Just had to add that I know someone who recently went through this.
I think that if a woman's body is capable of naturally selecting which ones live, then that's fine. But I still wouldn't be able to selectively reduce myself. Just had to add that I know someone who recently went through this.
" RESULTS: Complete data were obtained for 36 quintuplet pregnancies. Preterm labor complicated all pregnancies. Six pregnancies delivered prior to 24 weeks' gestation, with no surviving infants. In the remaining 30 pregnancies, the mean gestational age at delivery was 28.9 weeks (SD ± 2.0). There were trends toward later gestational ages at delivery in pregnancies with prophylactic cerclage placement and among multiparous women; however, these trends were not statistically significant. The perinatal mortality rate for the entire sample was 253/1,000. When adjusted for pregnancies delivered beyond 24 weeks' gestation, the perinatal mortality rate was 83/1,000. Minor and major neonatal morbidity affected 20% (26/132) and 10% (13/132) of quintuplet neonates, respectively. CONCLUSION: Quintuplet pregnancies are associated with high rates of obstetric complications and significant perinatal morbidity and mortality." (http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13424191)
I did not choose this link specifically because it's negative. In fact, everything I have found so far points to high rates of fetal demise, complications to the mother, premature births, etc...
You will have preterm babies if you carry them all. To get an idea of what that can entail, you may want to look at the premature babies forum on here. Of course, you have no idea what kinds of complications it would mean.
I am not telling you to go ahead and do it. I just don't want you to think that one or 2 happy stories in the media paint an accurate picture. Get the facts and stats from medical professionals. Talk to people who have had preterm babies. Talk to people who have had multiples. Then make your decision.
Best of luck whatever you decide.
I did not choose this link specifically because it's negative. In fact, everything I have found so far points to high rates of fetal demise, complications to the mother, premature births, etc...
You will have preterm babies if you carry them all. To get an idea of what that can entail, you may want to look at the premature babies forum on here. Of course, you have no idea what kinds of complications it would mean.
I am not telling you to go ahead and do it. I just don't want you to think that one or 2 happy stories in the media paint an accurate picture. Get the facts and stats from medical professionals. Talk to people who have had preterm babies. Talk to people who have had multiples. Then make your decision.
Best of luck whatever you decide.
I have not read the other posts....but here is my honest and heartfelt opinion. I know why the doctors suggest SR...BUT how can you choose which lives are more important? Would you feel comfortable explaining to the 2 surviving children your reasons for aborting their siblings if they were to ever find out? Are there any OTHER risk factors involved aside from the obvious multiple pregnancy? MANY MANY woman have carried quadruplets to term. Not just the ones you see on TV but here in the real world. Yes there ARE risks. But how high are the percentages of those risks? This probably doesn't help you much especially since I've never been in that situation and can only say with minimal certainty that I would opt NOT to do SR and let nature decide.
SR in reality is not different than an abortion in the sense that you are preventing that pregnancy or part there of from coming to term. I have had an abortion, I've had 2 miscarriages and one stillborn. I can say that every day of my life...for the past 15 years I have regretted that abortion. It is the ONLY thing in my life I TRULY regret. Even though I was 17 and young and stupid, I regret it. I have handled the natural loss of THREE babies far better than I have the one that was lost by my own selfish choice.
As you have said this is a very TOUGH and personal choice you have to make. You need to look at YOUR risk factors, YOUR health, those things make a tremendous impact. Are you in really good physical health? Aside from fertility problems do you have any other health issues that could affect a pregnancy be it single or multiple? As juvenile as this sounds....it may help to sit down with your Husband/Boyfriend and make a list. Put all of the risks and cons on one paper and all of the pros and benefits on the other. Then you need to weigh the negative against the positive. I wish you the best of luck and hope that whatever your decision you can come to something that you are comfortable with.
SR in reality is not different than an abortion in the sense that you are preventing that pregnancy or part there of from coming to term. I have had an abortion, I've had 2 miscarriages and one stillborn. I can say that every day of my life...for the past 15 years I have regretted that abortion. It is the ONLY thing in my life I TRULY regret. Even though I was 17 and young and stupid, I regret it. I have handled the natural loss of THREE babies far better than I have the one that was lost by my own selfish choice.
As you have said this is a very TOUGH and personal choice you have to make. You need to look at YOUR risk factors, YOUR health, those things make a tremendous impact. Are you in really good physical health? Aside from fertility problems do you have any other health issues that could affect a pregnancy be it single or multiple? As juvenile as this sounds....it may help to sit down with your Husband/Boyfriend and make a list. Put all of the risks and cons on one paper and all of the pros and benefits on the other. Then you need to weigh the negative against the positive. I wish you the best of luck and hope that whatever your decision you can come to something that you are comfortable with.
The IVF is where actual embryos are placed with a catheter in the uterus to either implant or not implant...the IUI is where the woman is given either oral drugs like Femara or injectable drugs to stimulate the ovaries to mature eggs. Before ovulation the males sperm is "washed" the the highest quality sperm are injected into the woman's uterus to hopefully fertilize an egg and result in pregnancy.
Stupid question what is the difference between IUI and IVF
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