Why IVF is a mixed bag for me

Why IVF is a mixed bag for me - Straits Times (blog)

By Dr Yong Tze Tein [email protected] 'Congratulations!' I beamed happily at Kim. It was the 1990s, when I was still a trainee in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Driven by the desire to have children after 10 years of marriage, and having saved enough money, Kim had come for an In-Vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycle. Moments later, however, my enthusiasm wavered while I was doing the ultrasound scan. On the screen before me was, not one, not two, but three little fetal hearts. Uncertain about how she and her husband would receive the news, I called the consultant in charge to convey the news. To the layman, having multiple pregnancies is a novelty. One usually pictures cute little babies in a row and jokes about the IVF cycle being a case of 'buy one, get two free!' To an IVF clinician, however, it is a mixed bag. This is because as much as we want our patients to get pregn...

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