UPDATE - Whew...Woman "Pregnant" with 12 Babies is NOT true!
I don’t think that I ever hoped that someone was NOT pregnant, but this case certainly was one. And, now she has been exposed as a “fraud” – thank goodness for those “babies.” Apparently, officials in Tunsania interviewed her – they found her not to be pregnant. They also think that she has some psychological issues, as she is likely not even pregnant with one baby. I will not even get into the issue of psychology in this post, as the officials were more focused on the fraud then on the fact that this woman may have fertility problems. (Side note: I hope that they get her some psychological help if needed) First, what surprised me was that her husband had been quoted in the last article – interesting, as he should know that she is pregnant or not, or so I would hope. This fact points more to fraud as they were likely trying to cash in on a story. Secondly, I was surprised that Dr. Manny Alvarez from Fox News stated that any pregnancy over five babies is “high risk.” "When you get to a pregnancy with that many multiples, often some of them spontaneously die," Alvarez said. "Anything more than five babies becomes a very high-risk pregnancy. The rates of premature labor for multiples are astronomical." Fox News, please do not pass that sort of information around, as I am certain that many, if not all, doctors would disagree with that number, which appears to be awfully high. We certainly do not want to be informing people that up to five babies is okay, especially after the “Octomom.” Again, I am not a doctor of any type, but I am certain they would all agree with me. As I included in my comment of Monday from Dr. David Kreiner (FACOGI), I wanted to remind everyone the following from him: “I site the SART recommendations on the number of embryos transferred and my endorsement of making this a regulation. I talk about the benefits of IVF where one can control the number of embryos transferred compared to IUI where as many eggs as you make can fertilize and implant. I am sure you know that 99% of REIs were absolutely against that 6 embryos were transferred into one woman. Perhaps this Tunisian pregnancy of a dozen implanted embryos should teach us that it is cheaper for insurance companies, the government and society to support IVF treatment rather than put people in a position where they feel compelled to play roulette with their lives by doing gonadotropins and IUIs rather than IVF.”
Well, thankfully for all involved, this story was untrue!
