To not understand why Amy Schumer is having IVF

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Eight months after her child was born?
In this country would they advise you against this so close to a recent pregnancy and birth?

I had IVF so understand how infertility means but she doesn’t seem to have said anywhere that her first child was difficult to conceive or conceived through IVF.

You dont know if she has any genetic conditions which she wants to prevent. My nephew has Cystoic fybrois which is a life limiting condition that affects his daily living.

Just to reply to some others. If she has had IVF with her first child I would have thought she would have fizz embryos then (although I know that isn't always possible - it wasn't for me) plus she has never spoken about her first being born from IVF and has posted recently in a way that suggests this is her first experience of it.

I have tons of sympathy for her as I do understand how it feels. I am guessing things are very different in private medicine, in America and for those who have money.

To add to my previous post I have an IVF baby from donor eggs and was pregnant with my 2nd when he was 8 months, I do also work in an IVF clinic and in my opinion the gap I usually see between people trying for subsequent pregnancies with assisted conception is much smaller than the one I see from people with no fertility issues, I guess we just know its not always that easy so don't always want to wait.

It her choice totally she may be talking about it but it’s likely she’s not telling all so can’t judge

Why do we have to police other people’s decisions when it’s not harming anyone?

I agree it's entirely her choice (no idea who she is).

However, there are good reasons why someone who had a baby 8 months ago might go through egg collection to freeze the embryo. There's the obvious point that it lets her get an egg as 'young' as possible, but also, there's some evidence frozen embryos actually do better (possibly because the body has a chance to recover from the stimulation drugs). So she could be setting herself up for a higher chance of pregnancy in a little while.

Also, 8 months is not actually very far from the 12 months we were advised by our clinic to wait before attempting another pregnancy (and my DP had a rough pregnancy/labour too, including a c-section). I could perfectly well understand someone aged 38 wanting to get their ducks in a row in good time - could be she or her clinic weren't sure how many cycles it'd take to get some good quality embryos to freeze, so she may have gone into it at 8 months picturing it might be a fair while before she was actually ready to try for a pregnancy again.

She wants to freeze eggs or embryos. As long as she feels ready for it the time doesn't matter - it is not that she is planning to get pregnant at this point and the time is for putting your body through another pregnancy (even though lots of people naturally conceive quickly after birth).

Why would you think she should have frozen ones from her IVF cycle? If you have been there you know that is often not the case - we had two cycles and none to freeze. For all we know, she could have had frozen embryos but used them all up for her current baby so needs more for freezing now.

I applaud her for taking it public as there is still a lot of taboo over talking about infertility and treatment for it.

just wondered if this is something that would be advised against in the U.K. even privately. .

No, I don't believe so. Not routinely, anyway, although a consultant may personally advise to wait longer. She's 38, she had a lot of difficulties during her pregnancy and although I have no idea how Gene was conceived, she has made reference to how hard she found the whole thing. She has endo and suffers badly with HG. There is no real medical reason for waiting, providing that she's mentally happy to go ahead.

I had my first child at 27, my second at 37. I knew I wanted another, so we tried again very quickly, probably too quickly given I had an EMCS! I fell pregnant far quicker than I expected, DS was born two days after my 39th birthday. There is a year and two weeks between my youngest.

Not ideal, but I was feeling the pressure of age and wanted to crack in with it! Maybe she feels the same!

'Why would you think she should have frozen ones from her IVF cycle?'

I didn't say she should have.

Is nobody allowed to be curious anymore.I was wondering the same thing.

If people only posted about stuff that was 'their business', surely mumsnet wouldn't exist!

I imagine they are being frozen, I wonder if Cameron Diaz did they same thing and then used a surrogate? Its amazing how things work differently once you get out of the uk. Although I wonder if its just a money thing?

She isn’t having IVF, she’s freezing her eggs for future use. In future I’d double check the facts before slagging someone you don’t know off.

I’ve just had two rounds of IVF to have my embryos frozen.

The first when my baby was 6 months old, the second round when my baby was almost 9 months old. It was gruelling, physically, mentally and emotionally. I really want to hurry the hell up and complete my family after years of this shit. Amy may very well feel the same! I’m having an embryo put back as soon as my baby turns 13 months old. I’ve already had comments from family such as “You’re mad” “That’s gonna be a small age gap, are you sure?” (Although if it goes to plan, is a 22 month age gap even really that small?) I take no notice because they simply have no clue, non at all, they’ve never experienced infertility and so their opinion is irrelevant

@TheBigFatMermaid I totally get this. Going through similar myself. That feeling of desperation and wanting to hurry up can take its toll, can’t it? Can I ask how the small age gap is working out for you?

I'm on my fourth round of IVF since DS was born 2.5 years ago. The first one was when he was 12 months old. It took 3 rounds to conceive DS, we desperately want another child. I don't think it's yours or anyone else's business what Amy Schumer does to overcome infertility.

I do follow her and have done from when she first started out. She got pregnant not even months after meeting her OH so it does seem like a pretty big leap.

She’s not having IVF. She and her husband are planning on freezing eggs/embryos. Presumably this is to give them a chance at IVF if they are unable to conceive naturally when they want to have a second child. She has the money to pay for egg freezing, so why not cover your bases. Good on her for sharing her journey - it’s far too taboo a subject.

It’s none of your business for gods sake!

She isn’t having IVF, she’s freezing her eggs for future use. In future I’d double check the facts before slagging someone you don’t know off.

She’s had IVF. The process of harvesting eggs and fertilising them in a lab is indeed what IVF is. She may well be freezing them for a later date, but she has had IVF (as she shared on Oprah yesterday!)

Egg freezing is basically a con unless you are very, very young with excellent quality eggs as eggs don’t survive freezing as well as embryos.

She's doing it so she can rent out someone else's body to buy her perfect baby/babies. There will be a 'gestational carrier' and the requisite daughter or boy/girl twins.

For the posters saying its none of our business, she’s made it a talking point by going on social media and chat shows discussing it. She doesnt have fertility issues (yet) shes just doing what a lot of A list celebs do. Chances are she wont carry the next one like SJP or KK or the endless list of celebrities that have used surrogates. When you google it there must rich Celebs using surrogates then anywhere else in the world, its quite mindblowing. I wonder if it will ever come to that over here?

I never knew it was so commonplace i that type of industry

I guess in a way maybe amy is bringing a bit more awareness to what does go on behind closed doors.

I had previously assumed she had fertility issues before dc1 that made her decide to go down this route

Because money talks.