Why did Kim Kardashian’s doctor refuse to do IVF again?

After her first two complicated prgenancies, her doctors thought it would be medical malpractice to have her undergo the process again. 

“When I was pregnant with my daughter North, I had a condition called preeclampsia or toxemia, which is basically when the mum’s organs start to shut down,” Kim Kardashian said.

“The only way to get rid of that is to deliver the baby. At 34 and a half weeks, I had to go into emergency labor—they induced me. North was four pounds. She was almost six weeks early.”

Her placenta did not come out after the delivery but instead, it started to grow in her uterus, which could have been life-threatening. “That is what women die from in childbirth,” she said.

She suffered from placenta accreta—a condition in which the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall.

After the delivery of her baby, the placenta inside her body had to be surgically excised. “It was the most painful experience of my life!” Kim said.

“I still had a piece of placenta attached inside of me and I had to have surgery to remove it. Then I had another surgery to remove the scar tissue. This was all preventing me from getting pregnant the second time around.”

While their first baby, North, was conceived naturally, Kim underwent IVF the second time, which was not immediately successful.vHowever, eventually the treatment brought results and she was able to get pregnant. The second pregnancy was again difficult.

“After my daughter was born, I still continued to do the process of freezing my eggs. I was able to get pregnant through that with my son Saint, and then I had two embryos left,” she said. “I had the same condition, same awful delivery that I had with my first daughter.”

Carrying the baby caused so much damage that Kardashian had to undergo multiple surgeries to restore her body post-pregnancy.

“I had to have five different operations within a year and a half to fix the damage that all of that did on the inside,” she said.

“But on the outside I was filming, and photoshoots… I asked my doctors, “Can I do it one more time?” And they were like, “We won’t even put an embryo in you—that would be like malpractice”.

Since they wanted to have more kids, Kim and Kanye then turned to surrogacy.