Why can't Monica and Chandler have a baby?

As the story goes, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) have been trying to have a baby for a year with no success. They go to a fertility clinic and are informed that due to the "low motility" of Chandler's sperm and Monica's "inhospitable environment," they are unlikely to ever conceive.
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How did Chandler and Monica have a baby?

Monica and Chandler adopted the twins from their biological mother (Anna Faris), although—in true sitcom fashion—they didn't know they were having twins until they were in the delivery room! Over its ten-year run, a subgenre of hospital-set Friends episodes emerged.
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What episode do Monica and Chandler find out they can't have a baby?

The One with the Fertility Test.
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Do Monica and Chandler have a biological baby?

Erica was the last recurring character to appear. She was the second to give birth to more than 1 child, the first being Phoebe. Chandler and Monica's daughter was named after her. She gave up her twins in an open adoption, meaning Monica and Chandler would remain in contact with her.
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Did Monica have fertility issues?

Monica was diagnosed as having a “hostile” cervical environment, a condition in which a woman's cervical mucus is abnormally acidic, scarce or dense, thus preventing sperm from traveling through the cervix and into the uterine cavity and Fallopian tubes to fertilize a mature egg.
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Friends Fertility Test, Chandler and Monica



Why did Monica and Chandler not try IVF?

As the story goes, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) have been trying to have a baby for a year with no success. They go to a fertility clinic and are informed that due to the "low motility" of Chandler's sperm and Monica's "inhospitable environment," they are unlikely to ever conceive.
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Did Joey and Chandler get the right baby?

After phoning Joey and Chandler, they finally find the baby at the Department of Human Services, but are left stricken when they have to pick the one from two identical babies. Luckily for them, they pick the right one. This they recognize when he starts crying again in Monica's hands.
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Was Monica pregnant in the last episode?

Toward the end of filming season 10, Cox was pregnant with her first child, her daughter Coco, who was born just a few weeks after the final episode of "Friends" aired on NBC. Since Monica was not expecting on the show, Cox's pregnancy was strategically hidden with baggy shirts and props.
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Do Rachel and Ross have babies?

Ross' daughter with Rachel, Emma Geller-Green, was born at the end of Season 8. Rachel's pregnancy was originally revealed in the season finale of Season 7. The conception of Emma was predominantly the result of a one-night stand, which was later revealed in the Season 8 episode, "The One With The Videotape".
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Who was the surrogate for Monica and Chandler's?

Anna Faris

Faris appears in five episodes of the show's final season as Erica, the young birth mother of Chandler and Monica's twins.
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Are Ross and Monica twins?

Ross Geller:

Ross is the older brother of Monica. He was college roommates with Chandler and they have been close friends ever since.
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Was Phoebe really pregnant on Friends?

Lisa Kudrow was pregnant in real life when she was shooting the triplets storyline for Phoebe Buffay in Friends. The actor had earlier shared that the makers were not really into hiding the pregnancy so they wrote it into the show. The trailer of the Friends' reunion special episode sure left the sitcom fans emotional.
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Does Joey have a baby?

Following the episode, a portion of viewers debated whether or not Joey and Chandler picked the right baby, but a key scene at the end of the episode hints that the men did indeed get the real Ben back.
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Did Chandler cheat on Monica?

They wrote: 'Most would agree that Chandler definitely won't cheat on Monica, although there were lots of signs that make me think Monica might have cheated on Chandler. 1. She thought it's ok for her to flirt with other guys (s5e19), so it's not technically cheating but she did challenge the moral ground.
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Who does Joey marry in Friends?

Alex Garrett

She later becomes his girlfriend, and she is the first girl Joey has thought about marrying (discounting when he proposed to Phoebe and Rachel after hearing they were pregnant). They get engaged in Season 2 of Joey.
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Does Phoebe have a baby?

Phoebe had agreed to be a surrogate for her brother Frank Jr. and his wife, Leslie, when the couple found out that they couldn't conceive naturally. In the show's 100th episode, she gave birth to triplets, reducing the cast (and us) to tears. That was over 20 years ago and now the triplets – Frank Jr.
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What happened to Ross's son Ben?

"He moved to England. So we've come after him and that's why we're gonna stay," Sibbett explained, with Hecht adding: "We put him in a boarding school just to get him out of dodge. We put him in a British boarding school. We eventually come here (the UK), adopt children and home school them in London."
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Why did they switch Carol in Friends?

In the early 1990s, she was a regular cast member of Carol & Company with actress Carol Burnett. Barone also played Carol Willick, Ross Geller's ex-wife, in the character's first appearance in Friends. She left the show as she wanted to pursue a more full-time role and was replaced by Jane Sibbett.
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Does Phoebe wear a wig season 6?

Trivia (11) This is one of the few times in season 6 where Lisa Kudrow is not wearing a wig or hairpiece. Producers thought her real-life hair was too short for the character of Phoebe.
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Why does Monica wear a different wedding dress?

After winning the day at Kleinman's, Monica learns that Megan has booked the Swing Kings, the band Chandler wanted to perform, for the same day as the wedding. Monica wants to make Chandler happy, so she decides to trade Megan the dress for the band — but first, she wants to try the dress on for her husband-to-be.
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Can Monica have babies?

After years of trying to start a family, the Friends final ever episode gave Monica (played by Courteney Cox) and Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) their first baby in emotional scenes. They welcomed twins into the world after their surrogate Erica (Anna Faris) gave birth in the shocking twist.
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Does Joey have a kid in Friends?

LeBlanc, who played Joey Tribbiani, shares 16-year-old daughter Marina Pearl with ex-wife Melissa McKnight.
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Which baby was Ben Friends?

Ben Geller - Cole Sprouse

The first baby on the Friends scene was Ross' son Ben that he shared with ex-wife Carol. The part of Ben was actually played by four different actors throughout the show.
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