thread: "Older" or "Larger" women and IVF success - Stories please :)

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  1. #1

    Jun 2010
    District Twelve
    8,425

    Yeah, I have never had a miscarriage (that I know of). Prior to IVF I had all of the hormone tests, thyroid, insulin, etc but this time around dp and I were tested for karotype, Leiden factor v and a million other things! She is also retesting my hormone levels - AMH, FSH, LH etc.

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Aug 2009
    Back in the bush Capital
    660

    N2L, I was 33 when we went through IVF/ICSI which according to the IVF nurses was 'a baby' though it didn't feel like it to us. I was also overweight, I'd lost about 15 kgs before starting IVF but was still classified as obese (hmmm, doesn't look very nice when I write it down!). We were very lucky to conceive on our second stim cycle (first cycle all our fertilised eggs developed multiple nuclei and our FS said they were no good so we had to go straight into another stim cycle) but we had male factor infertility (low sperm count, poor motility and morphology) whereas my tests had come back all clear. So not sure if that made a difference but we did manage a BFP whilst being on the cuddly side.

    Wishing you all the very best xx