Impoverished Egyptian septuplet’s family – a failure of infertility treatment?
August 27, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Women's Health
The news of the birth of septuplets to an impoverished Egyptian family who already had three girls, has raised a debate on the use of fertility treatments. The 27-year-old mother, Ghazala Khamis, had been trying for five years to get pregnant again – hopefully for a boy – before taking fertility drugs. She did end up with her boy, three times over, and four more girls.
In a country where the medical resources are very limited for such intensive medical needs, many are calling the doctor who prescribed the drugs as being foolhardy
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I don’t think fertility drugs are to blame. I myself suffer from PCOS and cannot get pregnant without the use of fertility drugs. I have already underwent 6 months of treatments and still nothing yet. I am hopeful as my last treatment was more successful in producing viable eggs. I don’t think it is fair to blame the drugs but maybe the doctor and his practices. If I drop more than 4 eggs my doctor would halt the rest of that cycle and the next months. It could also be her fault for not listening to the doctor and avoiding sex after hyperstimulating for 2 months.
This is ridiculous. She already had three kids. She shouldn’t have been allowed to take something to have more.