{"id":844,"date":"2007-09-18T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/ttc\/?p=844"},"modified":"2007-09-18T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T22:43:24","slug":"woman-sues-seriously-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Woman sues. Seriously. WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story just popped up on my news reader: Mom sues after IVF brings 2 babies instead of 1<\/a>. My first thought was, “WHAT?!?!” Of all the things to be upset about…. after going through infertility… and IVF… and getting pregnant<\/i>… to SUE THE DOCTOR for getting twins? Are you effing kidding me? Even me, who was in large part scared of getting more than one, was well aware of all the risks involved.<\/p>\n

This part brings another aspect to it, though, I have no clue if it’s the news putting a spin on things or if there’s a lot more to the story than reported: “The 40-year-old mother said she told her doctor, Robert Armellin, that she only wanted one child. But an embryologist under the doctor’s supervision implanted two embryos in her uterus.” Now IF – and I do mean if<\/i> – she made it dead clear that she only wanted one embryo transferred<\/i> (transferred, you news retards!) and they directly ignored her wishes and put two in… then perhaps there’s something there. Because that’s not grey area, that’s pretty black and white – I want X, you did Y. At my clinic we have to sign a consent form stating how many embryos we want transferred at the time of transfer, and I suspect it’s the same in just about every IVF clinic across the U.S. Maybe Austrlia doesn’t have that set up (yet – if they don’t already, this will surely get them to consider it). But again, that’s a big if.<\/p>\n

But if she had NO specific demands on the number of embryos transferred, she should have known damn well what her odds were. If she only said, “I want one baby,” and the doctor said, “Well this is the best chance of getting you that,” and she said, “Okay then,” well then, tough shit. Doctor’s can’t predict things like that. IVF, for how very highly scientific it all is, is still very much a crapshoot. There are no guarantees. Hell, they could put one embryo back and you could still get identical twins. It’s the whole question of informed consent – yet again, something we in the U.S. have to jump through hoops to accomplish (that includes a required class on IVF, required reading, and signing consent forms stating we have read all that reading, which includes statistics on success rates and<\/i> twinning rates). So that when the client turns around and says, “I never knew that,” they have no case, because you signed a paper saying you understand.<\/p>\n

I wish there was more to the story. Right now it just leaves you wondering. But I HATE the impression that it gives out. Like we really need more IVF bad stories out there in the mainstream media? It’s misunderstood enough as it is.<\/p>\n

Oh, I love this part too… the couple’s combined income is over $82k US per year, and the costs they are suing for include private school fees<\/i>. And she’s whining about the cost of a pram for twins. WTF? At what point did private school become a necessary cost of raising a baby? And you can’t tell me that you have no other options for prams (strollers)? That whole last part of the article just makes her look like a completely spoiled crybaby. Again, could be the article twisting things. But don’t you think it would have been a hell of a lot pursuasive to worry about, say, the increased health risks of carrying twins? The increased risk of premature birth? The increased risk of time in the NICU? No, instead of she’s upset over the damn pram.<\/p>\n

Ugh. I’m just so freakin’ annoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story just popped up on my news reader: Mom sues after IVF brings 2 babies instead of 1. My first thought was, “WHAT?!?!” Of all the things to be upset about…. after going through infertility… and IVF… and getting pregnant… to SUE THE DOCTOR for getting twins? Are you effing kidding me? Even me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-newslinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}