IVF- one embryo

[Anonymous]

My wife and I got married late, at 36. She had a miscarriage at 36- less than eight weeks- and another at 37 in her second trimester at 20 weeks, when the baby was healthy and had a strong heartbeat but she went into premature labor.

We just had egg retrieval for IVF and have one high quality 4aa embryo. None of the others made it. I am worried she will implant, lose the baby, and we will be back at square one, totally heartbroken. Any encouragement appreciated. I almost want to do another egg retrieval cycle or try IUI for a month.

[Anonymous]

Did you do PGT testing on the embryo? Since you said you were looking for encouragement, I will share that my only two PGT tested embryos resulted in my two children. While this may be abnormally lucky, it isn’t unheard of. However, several other embryos we made had genetic abnormalities and thus would not have resulted in a successful pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

I'm right there with you, 5 losses under my belt since 36. 2 years later, I'm at just over 8 weeks pregnant from the only embryo that was normal. I have your exact same fears. Is she on baby aspirin? Did she do the recurrent pregnancy loss blood tests? The blood clotting tests? Genetic tests?

I literally had no answers so I can only take this one milestone at a time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you do PGT testing on the embryo? Since you said you were looking for encouragement, I will share that my only two PGT tested embryos resulted in my two children. While this may be abnormally lucky, it isn’t unheard of. However, several other embryos we made had genetic abnormalities and thus would not have resulted in a successful pregnancy.

I don't know about OP but I've lost babies that were tested and confirmed genetically normal. I assume a 20 week loss is that situation.

[Anonymous]

It's hard but try to think positively or at least neutrally. Just let science happen. It only takes one.

[Anonymous]

Do you want more than 1 kid? If so, you should definitely consider doing more retrievals NOW.

[Anonymous]

One is great, especially if you aren't sold on starting with twins.

Good luck!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you do PGT testing on the embryo? Since you said you were looking for encouragement, I will share that my only two PGT tested embryos resulted in my two children. While this may be abnormally lucky, it isn’t unheard of. However, several other embryos we made had genetic abnormalities and thus would not have resulted in a successful pregnancy.

I don't know about OP but I've lost babies that were tested and confirmed genetically normal. I assume a 20 week loss is that situation.

For sure, random late term losses can happen for unknown reasons with totally healthy babies. Was only pointing out that success is more likely if the embryo is tested vs not and the OP did not specify that about the one remaining embryo.