New Partner who has had Vasectomy and now need to have ICSI

[Nat82]

Hi Kisaboo,

Like Teirae, my DH has older children and a vasectomy and I had none. We talked about children from the start and he was told by a dr that it would be better to do ivf rather than a reversal (it had been about 10 years). When we did the scans at the beginning of ivf it turned out that I had polycystic ovaries, so I could have had trouble conceiving anyway.

So from the time we made our first appointment until we got our BFP was about 6 months. You have to wait ages for an appointment with a FS usually and then you need to do all the BT's & scans etc (which I think happens at the beginning of your mens. cycle). Then you have to wait for another cycle to start the follicle stimulating homones. You usually get monitored really closely which is great. I much prefer this to what I think it would be like to have to conceive naturally and wait every month (this is if you were having trouble ttc).

After our first icsi cycle I had one embryo transferred and there was none to freeze. It didn't take, so we did another cycle using DH's frozen sperm (from last cycle). I had another embryo transferred with one left to freeze. That one didn't take either, so the next month after I ovulated, they transferred the frozen embryo and that resulted in our DS! We moved interstate and had to start with a new clinic. We we got fresh sperm aspirated from DH and we were really lucky to get our BFP the first time, plus 3 frozen babies waiting!

I'm so glad we had an 'ours' baby, and the other children all love him to bits

Good luck

[Miss.B]

Hi hun and welcome to belly! We've been in a similar situation with success. My DF is 47 and had a vesectomy over 16 years ago after he had 3 kids with ex wife. He had the reversal done almost 4 years ago, due to me pressuring him to do it as I wanted a natural pg, but it didn't work. We were then advised to do IVF with ICSI and proceeded to do a cycle in 2008. My DF's sperm was taken out of his testie (he's only got one) and they got enough swimmers to fertilise 11 eggs and we got two 5 and 6 day embryos whish were of good quality. I've had 2 successful pg from these embryos (even though I lost my first baby to an unrelated problem). GL to you and your partner, there is success with what your action plan is!

[kisaboo]

Thanks so much for your responses It means alot to me to have found this forum and have the support. We have an appt with a FS Nurse on 10th Jan 2012 to go through everything and than we go from there. I am nervous as i dont know what the odds of falling pregnant are? I really want to give him a baby as he has a rather nasty ex-wife who uses his children against him Very sad situation.
One question i was wondering do they transfer 1 embryo or can you ask for 2? I would prefer 2 with my age etc.
Thanks again xxx