All suspiciously quiet today she s either out shopping / asleep with Mammy minding the girls
I’m going down this route as a solo parent next year … I use the same clinic as she used and the vetting was a 5 min phone call with a counselor. It’s something I’ve thought long and hard about and not getting any younger.
I'm doing it too, I'm 40. I'm NOT with SIMS and my counselling session was an hour long. I found the counsellor very good. I'd thought about this long and hard and thought I'd covered everything but she brought up some really valid points that I hadn't considered and some different perspectives. I think everyone going for IVF should have counselling, regardless of personal circumstances, because it is an absolute minefield in every way.
Personally I think her clinic have a lot to answer for. Lisa was young and had no known fertility issues so the chances of the embryos implanting was high. She's just lucky she didn't end up with triplets or quads! There was no need for two embryos to be implanted at this early stage in her journey.
My clinic won't do IVF on anyone with a BMI over 35, which I don't agree with, but I do think that her weight should also have been factored in and another reason why only 1 embryo should have been used. I think because she's on the gram they wanted her to be successful to make them look good but in my mind, and based on my own experiences with my clinic, I think SIMS were actually reckless in implanting 2 embryos.
ETA: I think if she wanted 2 and they only wanted to implant 1 they could have gotten her to sign a waiver but based on her stories at the time I don't recall there being any talk of pushback from the clinic, they all seemed like great pals. Open to correction on this though.