This is a minor pet peeve, but this family didn’t do IVF. IVF is where you take medication to encourage a lot of follicles to mature and then they’re retrieved by a doctor, fertilized in a lap, and transferred directly to your uterus once they’ve matured a few days into embryos. The only TLC family of multiples I know of that did IVF was the Gardner’s on Rattled. All of the others did IUI, where you take a much lower dose of medication to try to get a few follicles and then sperm is washed out of a sample and inseminated into you, which is a) much less expensive and b) more likely to result in multiples.
Actually I’m surprised their doctor would go ahead with so many follicles - multiples is really not what a doctor is looking for.
Anyway, on topic, I want to like this show but I find the parents to be uncomfortable on camera and so they seem very fake. I also get very annoyed at all the complaining about how expensive everything is, because having quintuplets is, to me, a very selfish decision - the risks of long term health effects in babies that premature doesn’t seem worth it! So they probably should have factored the cost in before they got all googly eyed at the thought of having so many.
