I am the mum of 16 week old IVF twins.
The best advise I can give is try not to stress too much ( I know this is hard ).
I wrapped myself up in cotton wool so many times thinking this would help and the one time I didn't I got pregnant.
If you get the right egg at the right time I don't think it would really matters what you do.
Baby Dreamtime. That is an amazine regime you have. But I understand. The reward is so big. I am a vegetarian and am gradually moving across to organic dairy (I have the cheese and yoghurt covered). I am taking an increasingly ridiculous ****tail of vitamins, including Megafol and CoQ10. Hate coffee, no softdrinks or alcohol. Do you know if it is safe to drink organic black/green/white tea? Would love to know your thoughts on this. I have had my hormones checked and they are all fine. I took progesterone in the last PG just out of desperation. But nothing could have saved the baby because it was a Trisomy 15 (sporadic and not compatible with life). Thanks for your response
Tam83 - I am with SIVF, too. I had an appointment with my FS today. He has spoken with a genetic scientist who still does not think I may need to take the PGD path as my losses have been "sporadic". However, my FS does think it could be due to my age. He thinks that IF I manage to fall PG with IVF using PGD, I am at least less likely to go through the anguish of yet another MC. We will also get a better picture of how many of my eggs are not good. They can only do 7 tests. But it is a start. I got an Day 2 FSH of 3 which is hopefully means I will be a good responder (and I did one in May and got 4.2). I am happy to keep you posted. PM me if you like. And good luck with TTC
Ann14 - congratulations on your twins! Do you mind if I ask your age and if you did PGD? What should my expectations be? Thanks
I haven't been using BB for very long and hopeless with computers so please excuse my ignorants but what does PM stand for? I would love to chat with you. Hope you dont mind me asking but which FS are you seeing with SIVF? I am attending the Liverpool clinic.
I am seeing the FS on the 18/09/08 after that we will know whether or not we are going to go down the PGD IVF path.
Maybe we could meet on chat at a specific time that way we can chat.
Good luck and hope you get lots of excellent quality sticky embies
i have no advice, having never done IVF, but what i can offer is best wishes and i'm hoping you are very very busy with a happy bub in nine or so month's time!
WTH - I was actually thinking of PMing you tonight to see where you were up to. Now I know!!
I can't offer any advice but will follow your progress keenly given I am in a very similar boat.
I am flying to sydney nest week just for the day to see DrS in person (didn't get much out of phone consult) and have his NK test ( I assume yours was normal?).
I still don't have any chromosome results from my last m/c and given its been 4 weeks, I am pretty sure that means we won't get any. Very frustrating as that was going to sway my decision making.
We are currently leaning towards PGD so am hoping you give us a great lead in story!!
WTH, we were once tossing around the idea of using PGD as we'd had three embryo transfers as part of our IVF treatment, three pregnancies and three miscarriages. Our FS actually advised against using PGD as he didn't think the extra expense was worth it and it couldn't test for all abnormalities... However, we don't have a history of trisomies like you do. I wish you every success in your treatment and hope that they manage to find the answers to the questions you have.
My story is a bit more like Baby Dreamtime's... Our first two stim cycles resulted in quite nasty OHSS. I ended up in hospital for a week and off work for a month with one of them, which was I think the milder case than the other where I stubbornly refused to go to hospital and toughed it out at home. We did not transfer those cycles, but sent all embryos to the freezer. However, we had crap thaw rates. From those two cycles we had a total of 52 eggs collected, a total of 11 blastocyst embryos, and only 3 of those embryos survived the thaw process. We have one other that may have, but I honestly believe it didn't (complicated story). All three embryos resulted in a pregnancy from those FET cycles, and all three embryos were miscarried. For our third stim cycle, I followed an extremely strict low-carb, low-GI, high-protein diet. I eliminated all junk from my diet, especially sugar... and it made the difference! We had our first fresh transfer! We had lower egg numbers (a relief!), and rather poor fertilisation rates as they took me to EPU slightly early to fully ensure that we avoided OHSS... We didn't avoid it completely, it developed with a positive pregnancy test and I'm now 21 weeks pregnant. Sorry for the ramble, I did just want to encourage you that the diet changes may be hell, but they are VERY worthwhile and I fully believe that they made all the difference for us.
I used PGD to avoid passing on a genetic condition. As far as what you experience as a patient, there is very little difference to standard IVF other than the expense, and also a bit more anxiety as the embryos grow and are biopsied, since most do not make it. We started with 12 eggs, but come biopsy time there were only 2 embryos that were suitable for testing. Both were OK and were transferred, and we have a son.
My Dr was strongly in favour of transferring 2 embryos - though that may not be the preference if you are having PGD for miscarriage problems rather than to avoid nasty genes.
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