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The Retrievals - Ep. 5: The Outcomes

Serial

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4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 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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