Sarah McDermott, I Never Met My Daughter's Dad - She Was His Dying Wish. BBC, May 22, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48281662
("In 2013, Liat Malka was a single, 35-year-old [female] kindergarten teacher * * * 'I went to the doctor and did some fertility tests.' When the results came back, they suggested that the number of eggs Liat had left was low. * * * [(father) Vlad and )mother) Julia Pozniansky had had a son named Baruch.] At 23, while studying ecology at the Technion, a renowned university in Haifa, Baruch noticed a wound in his mouth that wouldn't stop bleeding. It was later diagnosed as [oral] cancer. Because chemotherapy can slow down or stop sperm production, some of his sperm was banked and frozen before he began treatment. He lost his hair and eventually doctors had to partially remove his tongue, leaving him unable to speak * * * her first round of IVF [with only one egg of hers] was unsuccessful. * * * [The second IVF was successful with just one egg harvested from her ovaries] despite [her] being given an increased dose of the medication which encourages the ovaries to produce more eggs, on the second attempt again there was only one egg")
Note:
(a) "'I went to the doctor and did some fertility tests.' When the results came back, they suggested that the number of eggs Liat had left was low."
The medical advice is simply untrue.
(i) Age and Fertility. Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (SOBG), undated https://pregnancy.sogc.org/ferti ... /age-and-fertility/
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(ii) Female Age-Related Fertility Decline American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), undated https://www.acog.org/Clinical-Gu ... e?IsMobileSet=false
)"Women with a history of prior ovarian surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, severe endometriosis, smoking, pelvic infection, or a strong family history of early menopause may be at an increased risk of having a premature decrease in the size of their follicular pool and decline in fertility")
(b) Instead of in vitro fertilization (IVF), why did Ms Malka simply apply semen directly to her vagina? That is, artificial insemination. Then she need not go through the process to retrieve eggs.