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 embryo is placed in their uterus.

Some of the pregnancy stick.

Eshis is one of them.

The single embryosium plants divides in two and she finds herself

carrying twins. They're born in the spring, eight weeks early and after Eisha

delivers she goes back to her OB for her own follow-up.

After I delivered I went in for my six-week postpartum visit to meet with my doctor and it somehow came up in conversation that I 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 don't, I really don't get what the big deal is.

You, 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.

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