Spontaneous Conception During IVF

Just when you're in the throes of fertility treatments, guess what? You find out you're pregnant (and you conceived on your own). I've known many couples who got pregnant while on a break between IVF or IUI cycles. As a matter of fact, when I ran an infertility support group, I would estimate as many women conceived naturally as did with assisted reproduction. But that brings up another problem. What happens if you're on those powerful fertility drugs and you spontaneously conceive? Here's an article about a couple that wound up having quads when that very thing happened:

Doctors Issue Alert Over Spontaneous Natural Conception While Undergoing IVF (www.aphroditewomenshealth.com)

From the article:

It has led them to warn that couples undergoing IVF, in which the woman has healthy fallopian tubes and the man has normal semen parameters, should be cautioned against having unprotected intercourse once the initial few days of ovarian stimulation by drugs has passed...

... He said that multiple pregnancies were medically undesirable for any patient and especially for those unwilling to undergo foetal reduction. "It may be prudent to caution IVF patients with no tubal or semen abnormalities against unprotected intercourse once the early days of ovarian hyperstimulation are over, especially if they will not consider foetal reduction in the event of a multiple pregnancy."