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...Single-embryo transfers are now the name of the game in many cases. A recent article in the journal Fertility and Sterility generated controversy when it suggested recasting how fertility clinics view outcomes. A singleton birth should be considered a success, triplets a failure...
...Richard Paulson, director of the fertility program at the University of Southern California, helped write the original professional recommendations regarding embryo transfer. Although he decries the birth of triplets, he's irritated at calls to legislate assisted reproduction. Doctors aren't the problem, he contends; laws are. Some European countries limit the number of embryos transferred, but that doesn't allow for physicians to take into account individual medical histories; generally, the older the patient, the less likely embryos will implant...
...meantime, the subject of how the California woman came to deliver eight babies - 10 years after a Houston woman gave birth to the first-known living octuplets - is preoccupying fertility doctors across the country. The ASRM is caught up in the craziness too. "If this resulted from an IVF treatment, we can say that transferring eight embryos in an IVF cycle is well beyond our guidelines," the group's president, R. Dale McClure, said in a statement issued four days after Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, a Los Angeles suburb, announced the babies' birth. "We have a process...
...Over the weekend at Duke Fertility Center in Durham, N.C., the extraordinary birth was on everyone's mind. Fertility clinics are round-the-clock operations, and women came and went for fertility monitoring. Susannah Copland, who oversees the IVF program at Duke University, was on call and noticed that "everyone was buzzing about the octuplets." Some were shocked, others unnerved. "I don't want eight babies," they told...
octuplets • birth of to parents of six children doubles population of family...