Here's a question for you all. Does conception by means of fertility treatments automatically label a pregnancy and delivery as "High Risk?" I ask because I know someone desperately trying to concieve via IVF, and believes that her (hopeful) pregnancy will be high risk and that she will not qualify for a normal, vaginal delivery.
I have to say that I am no expert in the field of fertility treatments, or how they may translate into birth risk factors, but something doesn't sound right to me about that. It seems to me that just because a woman needs some assistance with getting a pregnancy to occur, does not mean that pregnancy is doomed to be risky henceforce. I suppose it may depend on the why the fertility treatments were necessitated to begin with. This particular friend's treatments are for a failure to ovulate due to increase progesterone levels, and PCOS.
Tell me, other natural birthy mamas, do fertility treatments rule out a homebirth? Or even an unmedicated vaginal birth? Are all IVF pregnancies "high risk?"
I have clients who conceived via IVF. After the first trimester, assuming it's a singleton, things should be normal. A lot of it depends on why she's requiring fertility treatments in the first place. If it's a hormonal issue or something clear, then it could complicate her pregnancy and delivery. If she has "unexplained infertility", then she's likely to have a normal pregnancy and birth.
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