08/3/05 Giggle's Grappling Questions (very late due to vacation)
Giggles: What is the percentage of twins born from in vitro? If two embryos are placed is a woman more likely to have twins or one baby?
JU: I guess we're talking about the percentage of twins to live births regarding in vitro. Boy, having never considered having children and having never dealt with fertility stuff (in fact, discouraging anything about my fertility for decades now), I really don't know. I'm gonna guess that in vitro birth numbers are 50/50 and of the 50% that conceive, about 10% would be twins. I don't think the number of in vitro twins would be any higher than the national average. I guess I'm betting on the fact that some of these women have serious fertility issues and their whoo-ha's can't support more than one baby.
Let's look at the research...
From this website:Twenty-seven percent of Swedish women who become pregnant after undergoing in vitro fertilization have a multiple birth, compared with 1% of women overall. Babies conceived via in vitro fertilization are more likely than others to be born preterm, to have a low birth weight and to have congenital malformations. However, the results of a retrospective registry study suggest that these outcomes are mostly attributable to maternal characteristics and the occurrence of multiple births, rather than to in vitro fertilization.
So the Swedes have done some research on this and found that it is true, women that have more than one embryo implanted tend to have multiples.
I guess this means that a woman undergoing in vitro would be 27 times more likely to have multiple babies than another woman.
Speaking of having babies...
This post on Metafilter caught my eye.Willful Barrenness
Check out the latest abominable sin from the folks that bring you Justice Sunday.
The sexual revolution has had many manifestations, but we can now see that modern Americans are determined not only to liberate sex from marriage (and even from gender), but also from procreation.
Nice.
Ok, I'm going to try to get to another Giggles grappling questions so I can get caught up...
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'"You focus those motherly feelings elsewhere. For us, our dogs get all that love." That worldview is sick, but more and more common.'
Damn, those Christians are a tad judgemental, aren't they? I thought we were supposed to leave the "judging" to God.
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