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- wellness
- Infertility
- February 17, 2020
Amy Schumer reveals IVF results, thanks fans
Amy Schumer revealed the successful results of her first egg retrieval Friday.
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Schumer first opened up about her in-vitro fertilization journey in January, saying that she was undergoing the process to give her son, Gene, a sibling and sharing a photo of her stomach with bruise marks from injections.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by @ amyschumer on Jan 9, 2020 at 1:24pm PST
Back then, the actress wrote that just a week into IVF, she was “feeling run down and emotional” and asked her followers to offer any advice to help her get through it. She even went so far as to share her phone number for people to share their own experiences with infertility.
Almost immediately, many women ended up sharing their stories and advice with Schumer, who posted another photo of herself in a doctor’s office thanking her followers for the tips she received like icing bruised areas, eating salty food and drinking Gatorade.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by @ amyschumer on Jan 11, 2020 at 6:08am PST
In her Instagram post on Friday Schumer thanked her followers again and wrote, “I have so appreciated everyone sharing their IVF stories with me. They made me feel empowered and supported.”
Putting a spotlight on IVF, she also wrote, “So many women go through many rounds of IVF which is painful and mentally grueling. I heard from hundreds of women about their miscarriages and struggles and also many hopeful stories about how after rounds and rounds of IVF, it worked! It has been really encouraging.”
“I just wanted to share and send love and strength to all of the warrior women who go through this process,” she added.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by @amyschumer on Dec 29, 2019 at 9:12pm PST
Schumer speaking out about her experience with IVF with her nearly 10 million Instagram followers is critical in \"bashing\" the emotional and societal pressure that comes with trying to have a child, according to ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, a board-certified OBGYN.
\"It’s not just a physical and financial toll. It’s emotional. It’s psychological. It’s social,\" Ashton said Monday on \"Good Morning America.\" \"We tend to think of ourselves as a failure or have doubt, anxiety, fear, shame. Talking about this is the first step in bashing all of that.\"
Ashton referred to Schumer's announcement that she and her husband got one \"normal embryo\" in saying, \"We say it all the time in OBGYN because it is true -- you only need one.\"
She also stressed that, although it is difficult, women should try not to \"get bogged down on numbers\" when going through the IVF process.
\"I want to be clear,\" she said. \"The number of eggs or embryos or even if you choose to use your eggs is not a woman’s reflection as a human being.\"
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