“Wait a second – they’re flat-out telling us we can’t do IVF?” With most fertility treatments postponed because of COVID-19, some people worry they’re losing their last chance at pregnancy.
Due to the coronavirus, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has recommended suspending new treatments.Tens of thousands of women across the country trying to have a baby through fertility treatments are in limbo because of COVID-19: They've had to postpone their appointments indefinitely due to coronavirusrecently issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. But now some fertility specialists and their patients are pushing back.
"I was like, wait a second — they're flat-out telling us we can't do IVF?" Zook recalled."I was shocked." Zook's fertility specialist, Dr. Beverly Reed, said that when she first saw the recommendations,"I was shocked, and then I said, OK, well, these are the guidelines. I've just got to follow them...My patients were sad. I was sad.""One of the questions from my patients was, 'Does coronavirus cause birth defects? Is that why we are being told we can't have treatment?'" recalled Reed, who works at IVFMD, a fertility center near Dallas."And I said...
But Dr. David Adamson, a former president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said so little is known about how the new coronavirus could affect unborn babies that patients cannot make an educated decision about the wisdom of continuing treatments. Dr. Eve Feinberg, a member of the task force that wrote the recommendations, said it isn't just COVID-19's unknown health risks that prompted them.
She noted that when patients make repeat visits to a fertility clinic over weeks or months, they can come in contact with dozens of people — doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, ultrasound technicians, and so on — potentially spreading the coronavirus widely. Still, Kudrov said,"I'm not going to lie — being 44 and still wanting to get pregnant with my own biological baby, using my own eggs, this timing is critical. Every month feels like an egg wasted."
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