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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It can depend on why you did IVF. My first response to your thread title was "no" because I have a close friend who conceived both of her kids via IVF simply because her work covered it and it allowed her to perfectly time her pregnancies. She was under 35, and had no indication of infertility. They only implanted one embryo both times, and both "took."

Her pregnancies were both lower risk than my naturally conceived pregnancy at 37. Of your list, I had to do all but #2 (I actually had to do 3 anatomy scans because of a potential problem detected on the 20 week scan).[/quote]

What? Your friend had ivf with no infertility issues? Wtf?[/quote]

PP here and I was also surprised. But they were very upfront about it. They knew we had fertility issues so when they told us they were doing IVF, we assumed, but they explained they had this perk through work (it wasn't via insurance -- her company just covered IVF treatment for up to two kids and you didn't need to "qualify" with an established history of infertility). They wanted maximum control over the pregnancies and doing IVF meant they could select the "best" embryo before implantation and maximize the timing based on her fertility window. I don't know, I thought it was weird, but they are fairly normal UMC people otherwise. Though my friend is super type A generally so this is in keeping with her super-controlled, planner personality.

Before that I also did not know that people did IVF without fertility issues.[/quote]

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