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[jrittenhouse]

More stuff coming out on the octuplet stuff.

The dirty secret that many fertility clinics don’t want people to notice is that they sell hope by the very expensive bucketful, and their stats / success rate is actually worse than advertised if you can get past the caveats and BS.  But if the people don’t have hope, they won’t come into the clinic,

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[jrittenhouse]

I think she's looney / baby-happy to a ridiculous degree. People get strong desires to have kids; the amount of hell we went through to get one - heck, I could go on for a while about how much of a tremendous drag that was, and how you don't do this on a whim, and even when it went to adoption, the amount of angst that goes out on mailing lists as people waited for referrals to start coming back from China - man, people were really freaking out. It's all of their hopes and dreams in a big fat ball after a LOT of disappointments.

Over and above his possible criminal stuff with screwing around with money, this doc is a quack; he's got this idea in his head for this weird approach to...

Lemme explain. Getting someone pregnant can be ridiculously easy, or it can be mindblowingly tough. And when you get to the tricky stuff, you realize that it's not even close to being an exact science. Lots of luck involved, and all you are doing is pushing percentages.

You can put yourself up as a IVF specialist, but brother, people want You To Deliver That Baby. And you have to keep women coming in the door; the failures will only keep at it for so long, and the successes will stop coming.

This quack is throwing a BUNCH of embryos in and hoping one will take. Nobody really knows what makes embryos stick around or thrive. It's educated guesswork. And when you stimulate the ovaries to punch out a bunch of eggs at once, you may get Not Much, or Way Too Much.

When the woman said she had six embryos left, and doesn't know why she ended up with eight, I believe her. I also believe that she didn't go into this expecting all six of those embryos to take hold, and neither did the doc; his idea was that's what she's got left, and we'll put them all in and shoot craps. Neither expected eight.

[drzarron]

Especially when the AMA's guideline for a women in her mid-30's is to implant 2 embryos per procedure.

[jrittenhouse]

Again, this guy was obviously ignoring any usual guidelines. Throw lots of embryos in and see if it sticks.