Fertility Drugs and the Desperate Women Who Use Them
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No more meds for mommy
Where do I begin? This is going to be another one of those great offending topics but I dont care. I feel very strongly about this subject and it's high time someone said something in opposition of it.
I will never figure out how women get so desperate to have a baby that they go to a doctor to get pregnant. Do not call it "God's miracle." God didnt get you pregnant, the doctor, drugs and lots of money did. God had nothing to do with it. I honestly feel that if you cant get pregnant the old fashioned way, you were not meant to create life. Shoot. Arent there babies out there who need adopting?
Stop looking surprised when you find out youre having a litter. You knew that was a possibility. And there is nothing natural about having 6 babies at once. Dont act all shocked when you go into labor early. DUH! Havent you been paying attention? (Her lack of intelligence is most likely the reason God didnt help her out in the bedroom.)
Dont say youre doing it for little Timmy who is an only child. Dont say youre doing it so he will have company. Just dont. Admit youre doing it for yourself and your own selfish reasons. You just dont feel complete without more babies.
The thing that upsets me the most about these women taking these fertility drugs and getting knocked up is that when the litter of babies is born, most (if not all) of them are way too small to breathe on their own, they are ill, theyre more at risk for birth defects and they are suffering. How can you know something like that going into it and still go through with it? How do you feel good about yourself when youre looking at the 5 babies you had sliced from your abdomen hooked up to IV's, tubes and breathing machines just so that they can live through the day? How is this not a selfish act?
Lastly, stop getting pregnant by way of fertility drugs, popping out 8 babies, saying, "Gosh! We cant afford all these kids!" and going on the news to beg for handouts from the rest of the world. I dont feel an ounce of sympathy for you. If you hadnt been so selfish, you wouldnt be in the predicament you now find yourself in and little family-less Billy couldve been adopted.
Fertility drugs should be banned for mass-consumption.
What happens to underweight babies?
IVF or in vitro fertilization increases a woman's chance substancially of having multiples-therefore very likely resulting in low birthweights.
Multiple birth babies are at increased risk of low birthweight because they often are premature. Over half of twins and other multiples have low birthweight.
A baby with low birthweight may be at increased risk for complications. The baby's tiny body is not as strong and he/she may have a harder time eating, gaining weight, and fighting infection. Because they have so little body fat, low birthweight babies often have difficulty staying warm in normal temperatures.
The following are some of the common problems of low birthweight babies:
- low oxygen levels at birth
- inability to maintain body temperature
- difficulty feeding and gaining weight
- infection
- breathing problems such as respiratory distress syndrome (a respiratory disease of prematurity caused by immature lungs)
- neurologic problems such as intraventricular hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain)
- gastrointestinal problems such as necrotizing enterocolitis (a serious disease of the intestine common in premature babies)
- sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
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I may but I didnt say anything I dont firmly believe. If they get mad it just shows that theyre either in the category I discussed or they have a friend/family member in it.
Wow! Kudos and applause for saying out loud what so many people think. I'm sick and tired of seeing these couples of TV, thanking God for their "litter" (love that word!) only to find out that they had used some type of fertility treatment. Give me a break! And having had a premature infant, you're absolutely right on the risk for low birthweight babies. A single baby has a good chance of bypassing those hardships, when you start dropping those litters, you're making many suffer at once. That's so very selfish!
Props to you! I feel exactly the same way. I am a labor and delivery nurse at a county hospital in dallas. Although our patients cannot afford fertility drugs 99% of the time. I see it in the news. Look at John and Kate plus 8 and the Duggars [who conceive naturally but still pimp out their kids to be able to afford them]. It makes me so sick that people subject their children to this! Its horrible! Someone needs to stop it!
Thank you! I'm in a delicate position, as I've had friends deliver multiples this way. I'm happy for them (even bough gifts), but also disgusted. It's unbelievably selfish. When she announced her pregnancy, she already had the c-section scheduled, because she knew they wouldn't make it all the way to full term. Ugh. Also, one of the babies was immediately sent to a NICU in another town and is breathing via a machine.
I see the pictures and I get angry. She's cried about it, and I don't want to make her feel worse, but she should. SHE AND HER HUSBAND DID THIS! Their child is clinging to life because they were selfish and arrogant, meanwhile everybody's throwing prayers and support their way.
Wow! Your story hit home for me. I feel if you cant get pregnant, someone doesnt think youre fit to be a parent. I also feel that fertility drugs should be no more. Its just plain disgusting. Thank you for your input Michelle. I feel for those poor, innocent babies.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was a fertility baby and was abused most of my life. I feel like God didn't want my parents to have children cause he knew they would be like this... My parents didn't have more than one, but that's a good thing cause more than one would have been more hurting children!
Jennifer, I am SOO sorry for what you went through. My heart goes out to you. Truly.











Agro Donkey says:
2 years ago
Wow you are going to piss a bunch of people off with this one but I feel the same way as you do. My long time girlfriend and soon to be wife are about to have our second child. We have decided that if this one is a boy then we are done having children of our own. We think that having anymore than one of each would be selfish knowing that there are a large number of kids who are waiting to be adopted and that most never will. My girlfriend spent time growing up in a childrens home and saw how the cute little ones were quickly adopted and the older children who had problems stayed put. Those are the children that we want to give homes to.