Did your number of snowbubs affect your decision to have more children?

[Hollybolly]

DH & I are the same as Ruth - we'll give every snow bub a go (if we get any.. 4 stim cycles previously and none to freeze, so who knows?)

I would have as many children as my body would physically allow me... and as long as DH could make enough pizzas to ensure that I didn't have to work again for a LOOOOONG time

DH is the typical Sicilian man with his attitude on children... the bigger the numbers, the better

I always wanted 4, he's wanting at least 6... we have Luke so far, so we'll see how we go

I'm so selfish atm that I couldn't possibly imagine giving my embryos to someone else.... but I'm fairly certain thats almost 100% due to the fact that we haven't had any luck with the IVF yet.

My opinions may change later on.... (But I doubt it, I want all of them for myself )

[onthefly]

8!!! well done nic!
We have 6 in the freezer. We'd like 3-4 children (ideally) so we'll probably just end up using them all (figure some won't thaw/stick).
If we get extremely lucky and end up with extras, I'm not sure what we'd do. Before I had DS we thought we'd donate any extras. Now I feel differently about that (not sure why, something to think more about later on, when and if...) DH doesn't want them going to research, and I don't think either of us would want them to be 'wasted' so we'd probably just go again.

[Ann14]

Hi Nic,

I have brought this question up also as we have 2 snowbubs in storage. If there were no snowbubs I wouldn't even be thinking of going back. Like happymel we have twin from our last cycle and DP has said 2 is enough. I think it is to early for us to decide and they will keep the eggs for up to 5 years.

So to answer your question :

Did the amount of embies you had in storage, affect your decision to possibly add to your family when you thought it was complete?

Yes

[pip2jays]

Did the amount of embies you had in storage, affect your decision to possibly add to your family when you thought it was complete?

Yes it did here.. I wasnt comfy leaving any behind or donating so they all got a chance.. then when the last one didnt take we realised we wanted to go again anyway ( had alread had 2 successes 3 years before)

[on tra_k]

we were very fortunate to have "beginners luck" with IVF so with one snuggling in, we have 8 frosties in-waiting ...

when I told my Mum we were pg and have lots of frosties I think she was going to suggest that we should just use them all ... but she asked me how many and when I told her she sort of gulped and said oh... that would be a tribe!

DH has been talking 2 kids, I've always been keen for 3 ... I'll leave him in peace for a while but I'm already quietly wondering if I can do a FET while still BFing (plan to BF for 2yrs+). I'm not sure if the number of frosties will make me think about having more than 3, but I'm hoping it will make DH consider having more than 2!!

[kenziesmum]

We have one frostie left, and have said no more children, IVF was such a taxing experience on us emotionally (we were living in separate states due to work) and i don't think we could do it again. I still don't know what we are going to do with our frostie, don't even know what our options are.

[Keen]

We have still 5 snow bubbas left and having just had twins a year ago - I dont imagine that each of these little ones will be given the chance by us. I would like to go again, but DH is not so sure just yet... But in answer to your question I think I would want a third anyway whether we had snowbubs or not - and prior to the twins I would have said only 2, so....

Either way all our snowies will get a chance one way or another as any I dont use myself will be donated to infertile couple.