I am looking for honest answers please as to whether you think I'm just being silly to even think about trying IVF again. Sorry its a bit long.

My history so you know where we've been ............

I turned 43 in December. Our IVF miracle man is almost 16 months old. DH and I fell into the unknown reason category as to why we didn't fall pregnant naturally and because of my age we went straight to IVF rather than trying anything else first. It took four STIM cycles and 1 FET before I fell pregnant.

We started in Jan 2007 and and did 3 STIM cycles and 1 FET in that year. Got low pregnancy reading on the FET but levels were dropping when they did 2nd blood test and BPN on the other cycles. We transferred 5 day blasties each time. Egg production has always been fairly good 10-14 eggs and good fertilisation rate but as we got closer to the 5 days growth would start to slow down though we always had 1 Grade AA to transfer each time but only got frosties on one occasion.

After 4th failure at end of 2007 we took a break as emotionally I felt I couldn't handle another cycle. Was also going through very very stressful period in work so didn't believe (whether rightly or wrongly) that it would work when I was so stressed. At end of 2008 I was made redundant and decided to take summer off and relax. We started new STIM cycle begining of December (as I was turning 41) and bingo it worked !!!!!

When DS was born I said that was it we had our miracle baby and that was enough! However over the last few weeks I have been feeling sad that this might be it and just wonder maybe we could try again. It might be that quite of few of my mothers group friends are now expecting no 2 and a few of my friends are expecting no 1 so this might be triggering my feelings. I've also just returned to working so going through the emotional thing about DS being in childcare :-(

Given my age and how long it took to get pregnant the first time am I silly to even contemplate? I've had other girl friends whose 1st cycle with IVF worked and who just couldn't get no 2 (8 & 10 cycles respectively) which makes me think it probably wouldn't happen. Then with age there is also the increased risk of something going wrong.

What do you think. Should I just count my blessings and enjoy our little miracle or is it worth while having another go?