The women get pregnant. Some of them see it begin. They see it begin at the clinic, in the same place where they had their retrieval.

On the ultrasound screen they watch, as the embryos placed in their uterus. Some of the pregnancy stick.

Eishas is one of them.

The single embryo she implants divides in two, and she finds herself carrying twins.

They're born in the spring, eight weeks early, and after Isha delivers, she goes back to her OB for her own follow-up.

After I delivered, I went in for my six-week post-tartum visit to meet with my doctor. And it somehow came up in conversation that I, you know, was part of

this suit that was going on. And she looked at me and she said, well, what's the big deal? I mean,

you ended up pregnant. And she's not the first provider that said that to me. I'm actually in the

process of switching psychiatrists because I had a similar experience with her recently where she

kind of said, you know, I really

don't get what the big deal is. You were successful. You got pregnant. What's the problem?

Wow. I, wow. I mean, yeah, I mean, like, just what a thing to say, as if the only thing that matters is that single outcome and not the entire process.

I mean, yeah.

Outcomes of fertility treatment are typically measured by the numbers.

The CDC collects data.

You can go online and look up a clinic and find out what percentage of egg retrievals result in live births.

But the outcomes here can't be expressed by existing options on a drop-down menu.

Some of these outcomes are not concrete.

And just like the initial experience of pain, some of the outcomes are questioned.

Really, what are their damages?

One fertility doctor, someone not from Yale, said to me about the patients in the lawsuit.

What are the harms done? What are the redressable harms? One of the patients' own lawyers told me that when his firm got the first call from a patient,

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