Giving Fertilization Treatments a Chance
Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey decided that hormone treatment be the best way to have their much desired second child. As such, they went on and used the fertility medicine Metrodin, a treatment that can help those with fertility problems become pregnant by stimulating ovulation. Dr. Katherine, a reproductive endocrinologist in Des Moines, supervised Bobbi during the fertility treatment and warned them that a side effect of fertility drugs could be multiple pregnancies.
Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey. Source: travelfuntu.com
In approximately 20% of cases, women who conceive following treatment with Metrodin have twins or triplets, or even more in some rarer cases. The McCaugheys were also advised that multiple pregnancies often end in miscarriage or even stillbirth. Not only that, but the risk multiplies with the number of fetuses.