1 or 2 embryo's????? Does anyone have any transfer stories /help / ideas /thoughts??

[TaRhLi.]

Welcome to BB

It is a hard decision and you have to accept the risk of possibly having twins. For us it was an easy decision to always have 2 transferred (apart from our first fresh transfer when our fs went with 1 to see how things worked). All up we underwent 6 transfers from 15 embryo's we had collected from our stim cycle and our results were:

1st transfer fresh cycle - 1 embryo transferred - Chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - BFN
3rd transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - Suspected ectopic pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage
4th transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - resulted in DD who is now 27mths
5th transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - BFN
6th transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - resulted in our twin boys who are 8mths old
We still have 3 embryo's on ice

And yes having twins is hard work and puts a lot of stress on your body - I was 38 when pregnant with the twins - but many 'normal' people have twins all the time so to me it wasn't a strange thing to potentially have happen IYKWIM. Considering we only really wanted 2 kids to start with I now feel blessed to have my 2 little men as if things had turned out differently then 1 of them wouldn't be here today.

Ultimately only you know what you will feel comfortable doing, but as a mummy of a singleton pregnancy and a twin pregnancy I wouldn't change anything we did.

[Missren]

Welcome to BB

It is a hard decision and you have to accept the risk of possibly having twins. For us it was an easy decision to always have 2 transferred (apart from our first fresh transfer when our fs went with 1 to see how things worked). All up we underwent 6 transfers from 15 embryo's we had collected from our stim cycle and our results were:

1st transfer fresh cycle - 1 embryo transferred - Chemical pregnancy
2nd transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - BFN
3rd transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - Suspected ectopic pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage
4th transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - resulted in DD who is now 27mths
5th transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - BFN
6th transfer FET - 2 embryo's transferred - resulted in our twin boys who are 8mths old
We still have 3 embryo's on ice

And yes having twins is hard work and puts a lot of stress on your body - I was 38 when pregnant with the twins - but many 'normal' people have twins all the time so to me it wasn't a strange thing to potentially have happen IYKWIM. Considering we only really wanted 2 kids to start with I now feel blessed to have my 2 little men as if things had turned out differently then 1 of them wouldn't be here today.

Ultimately only you know what you will feel comfortable doing, but as a mummy of a singleton pregnancy and a twin pregnancy I wouldn't change anything we did.

Thanks for the welcome tarhli!
Congrats on your children.. Loving these stories of successful ivf pregnancies, giving me loads of positive vibes whilst I'm feeling anxious being my 1st cycle.

I imagine it wld be very hard & kudo's to u.

I agree I have five 'normal' friends with twins so not seeing it as strange either, but also understand as other girls have advised I'm putting myself in that risk..

Thanks for your advice :-)