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

[Missren]

Missren, My clinic was much like yours, talked up the single embryo transfer like they never would consider doing two... until the number of embryos available became apparent.

I only had 3 eggs (from 8 follicles) and although they all fertilized, one looked dodgy from the start. On day two, they gave us the choice of one on day three, two on day three, or wait til day 5. We chose to wait, on the understanding from the embryologist who was on on day 2 that if they didn't make it to day 5, they wouldn't have survive in my womb either. So we hoped for one to t/f and one to freeze. But on day 3, a different embryologist was on, and he rang me and suggested we reconsider, as he thought that they might well do much better in the womb than in the lab. One looked great, one was barely ok, and the third even more dodgy. He and my FS conferred, and suggested that we transfer the better 2 embies that day, despite the short notice. I'm 37, though age was not mentioned as a factor in the decision.

So we did that, aware that there was an increased chance of twins, and we got our bfp at the start of January. I find out tomorrow if it's one or two hearts beating in there!

My advice would be - at least for the first cycle or two - to have only one transferred unless you are both quite willing to take the risks of a twin pg, and the hard work of twin babies. But you may be given choices and advice that changes, depending on what happens with your embryos leading up to transfer. If you are at areputable clinic, they will not want to take a significant risk of you having twins, either, so talk to the embryologists and FS if you have to make a tough decision. Good luck!

Thanks for the good luck Pholi! & congrats on your bfp!
That's very & exciting for you. I love reading success stories.
My hubby & I have discussed a few scenarios & will see how we go with egg collection fri Etc-- i will also listen to all the docs and their advice when the time comes :-)

[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 :-)