{"id":3082,"date":"2026-07-10T18:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:38:30","slug":"emmy-rossums-shares-super-responder-egg-retrieval-with-pmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Rossum’s Shares ‘Super Responder’ Egg Retrieval With PMOS"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tEmmy Rossum<\/a> was shocked when she received the results of her IVF egg retrieval.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey woke me up from the harvest and said that I had 72 eggs,\u201d Rossum shared this week on Call Her Daddy<\/a><\/em>. Hearing those results was \u201ctrippy and bizarre,\u201d Rossum remembered, especially since the Shameless<\/em> actress had faced fertility<\/a> issues due to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS, formerly known as PCOS<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tBut it turns out, Rossum\u2019s result may not be as rare as you\u2019d think. People with PMOS actually have more eggs than normal, according to the American Medical Association<\/a>. However, because ovulation is disrupted by hormone imbalances, these eggs stay immature within the ovaries. The ovarian follicles holding these eggs may respond well to stimulation medication during IVF<\/a> treatment, per SAFE Fertility Group<\/a>, which can result in a higher number of eggs getting retrieved. As Rossum put it, she was a \u201csuper responder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHowever, PMOS can also effect egg maturation and quality, which means those eggs might not all be viable.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Rossum, though, there was a happy ending to her fertility story: after this \u201clong journey,\u201d she and husband Sam Esmail welcomed their daughter in May 2021. Their son was born in April 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tRossum also opened up about her other PMOS symptoms, which included \u201cdebilitating\u201d ovarian cysts<\/a> in her 20s. She first tried to get pregnant naturally, then with intratuterine insemination \u2014 which involves placing sperm directly into the uterus during ovulation \u2014 then finally through IVF. \u201cI had a kind of crazy journey to get pregnant,\u201d Rossum reflected.<\/p>\n

\n\tRossum also experienced postpartum anxiety, which involved \u201cvery intense, intrusive thoughts,\u201d she said. Though underdiagnosed (and not talked about enough), postpartum anxiety affects 1 in 5 women after giving birth, according to a 2018 study<\/a>; Olivia Munn is another celebrity who\u2019s spoken out about having the condition, calling it \u201cincredibly difficult\u201d<\/a> and more challenging than battling breast cancer.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite the long journey and her fear of childbirth, Rossum said that the moment she saw her daughter for the first time, everything changed. \u201cI was overtaken by the feeling of vulnerability,\u201d she explained. \u201cThat this thing that we\u2019ve been able to keep safe inside of you for so long is now outside of you, and it\u2019s so vulnerable, and anything could happen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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Emmy Rossum was shocked when she received the results of her IVF egg retrieval. \u201cThey woke me up from the harvest and said that I had 72 eggs,\u201d Rossum shared this week on Call Her Daddy. Hearing those results was \u201ctrippy and bizarre,\u201d Rossum remembered, especially since the Shameless actress had faced fertility issues due to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS, formerly known as PCOS). But it turns out, Rossum\u2019s result may not be as rare as you\u2019d think. People with PMOS actually have more eggs than normal, according to the American Medical Association. However, because ovulation is disrupted by hormone imbalances, these eggs stay immature within the ovaries. The ovarian follicles holding these eggs may respond well to stimulation medication during IVF treatment, per SAFE Fertility Group, which can result in a higher number of eggs getting retrieved. As Rossum put it, she was a \u201csuper responder.\u201d Related story Dax Shepard Offered to Freeze 11-Year-Old Daughter Delta\u2019s Eggs After She Said She \u2018Wants to Have a Baby\u2019 However, PMOS can also effect egg maturation and quality, which means those eggs might not all be viable. For Rossum, though, there was a happy ending to her fertility story: after this \u201clong journey,\u201d she and husband Sam Esmail welcomed their daughter in May 2021. Their son was born in April 2023. Rossum also opened up about her other PMOS symptoms, which included \u201cdebilitating\u201d ovarian cysts in her 20s. She first tried to get pregnant naturally, then with intratuterine insemination \u2014 which involves placing sperm directly into the uterus during ovulation \u2014 then finally through IVF. \u201cI had a kind of crazy journey to get pregnant,\u201d Rossum reflected. Rossum also experienced postpartum anxiety, which involved \u201cvery intense, intrusive thoughts,\u201d she said. Though underdiagnosed (and not talked about enough), postpartum anxiety affects 1 in 5 women after giving birth, according to a 2018 study; Olivia Munn is another celebrity who\u2019s spoken out about having the condition, calling it \u201cincredibly difficult\u201d and more challenging than battling breast cancer. Despite the long journey and her fear of childbirth, Rossum said that the moment she saw her daughter for the first time, everything changed. \u201cI was overtaken by the feeling of vulnerability,\u201d she explained. \u201cThat this thing that we\u2019ve been able to keep safe inside of you for so long is now outside of you, and it\u2019s so vulnerable, and anything could happen to it.\u201d Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-female-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}