Episode 5: The Outcomes

The Retrievals

Serial Productions and The New York Times

Yale Fertility, Yale, Society & Culture, Serial, Society And Culture, News, New York Times, True Crime

4.6 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In fertility treatment, a successful outcome is defined as a healthy baby. In this story, the outcomes are complicated for everyone involved.

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0:00.0	The women get pregnant.
0:05.3	Some of them see it begin.
0:07.5	They see it begin at the clinic in the same place where they had their retrieval.
0:12.7	On the ultrasound screen they watch as the embryo is placed in their uterus.
0:17.7	Some of the pregnancy stick.
0:19.3	Eshas is one of them.
0:22.0	The single embryo she implants divides into and she finds herself carrying twins.
0:28.1	They're born in the spring eight weeks early and after Esha delivers, she goes back to
0:33.4	her OB for her own follow-up.
0:35.9	After I delivered, I went in for my six weeks postpartum visit to meet with my doctor and it
0:44.8	somehow came up in conversation that I was part of the suit that was going on and she
0:53.2	looked at me and she said, well, what's the big deal?
0:57.1	I mean, you ended up pregnant and she's not the first provider that said that to me.
1:03.7	I'm actually in the process of switching psychiatrists because I had a similar experience
1:08.7	with her recently where she kind of said, you know, I really don't get what the big
1:12.6	deal is.
1:13.6	You were successful.
1:14.6	You got pregnant.
1:15.6	What's the problem?
1:17.6	Wow.
1:18.6	Wow.
1:19.6	I mean, yeah, I mean like just what a thing to say.
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