Ah! The question has crossed your mind. The use of fertility drugs may mean that you're giving birth -- and that's what you want. But it may also mean you may have a multiple birth.
This is especially risky when you use the types of drugs which are injected into your system. While the oral medications also increase the odds of you giving birth to more than one child, they are not as high as with the injections.
Now that's not to mean you'll end up with eight children. Not by any stretch of the imagination. But you may have twins or even triplets.
That's why -- and you'll discover this as you take the treatments yourself -- that your specialist monitors the use of these drugs very carefully. While you're on these drugs you'll be taking blood tests, hormone tests and ultrasounds. The last of these is to measure the size of the ovarian follicle.
Multiple births raise the risk of your babies being born prematurely which in turn put them at a greater risk of health and developmental problems.
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