What did you do with your PGS abnormal embryos?

[Anonymous]

We have 3 frozen embryos in storage and they are PGS abnormal. We have two kids from that retrieval. Our first child was a fresh cycle baby and the second child was the only PGS normal from a total of 6 frozen embryos. I am not sure what to do with the 3 in storage as we are paying the storage fees every month. I would like to bring them home but I am feeling very emotional about this and not sure what is the right thing to do. I definitely do not want to donate them to science. If they were normal, I would have like to donate them to other couples but I don't think anywhere would accept PGS abnormal embryos. What did you do with yours especially if you already have successes?

[Anonymous]

I will have mine transported to Fairfax Cryobank. I will pre-pay for 5 years of storage, which comes out to $22 a month. I will be making pre-payments every 5 ($22/moth) or 10 ($20/month) years until I die. At that point they will die with me.

[Anonymous]

I discarded them under the theory that my body (had a couple of miscarriages) would have done the same had they been created the good old fashioned way rather than via ART.

[Anonymous]

We just discarded them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will have mine transported to Fairfax Cryobank. I will pre-pay for 5 years of storage, which comes out to $22 a month. I will be making pre-payments every 5 ($22/moth) or 10 ($20/month) years until I die. At that point they will die with me.

Wow. What is the point of this? Asking respectfully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will have mine transported to Fairfax Cryobank. I will pre-pay for 5 years of storage, which comes out to $22 a month. I will be making pre-payments every 5 ($22/moth) or 10 ($20/month) years until I die. At that point they will die with me.

Wow. What is the point of this? Asking respectfully.

PGS science is not 100%, new technologies might be developed for more in-depth analysis and/or correction of issues (although not in our lifetime), they are life (although frozen), just because they are few cells they are no less human, I could never sleep again peacefully if I made them perish.

[Anonymous]

Most people discard them as non-viable with the thought that they would not have implanted or would have resulted in miscarriage. That's what I did.

Transfer or freeze are the other options. Not many docs will transfer abnormals.

Freezing until death - not sure how the contracts work, but upon death would that come up in resolving the estate so that the spouse or kids would then have to deal with it and choose? Just wondering if it's really as simple as PP stated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most people discard them as non-viable with the thought that they would not have implanted or would have resulted in miscarriage. That's what I did.

Transfer or freeze are the other options. Not many docs will transfer abnormals.

Freezing until death - not sure how the contracts work, but upon death would that come up in resolving the estate so that the spouse or kids would then have to deal with it and choose? Just wondering if it's really as simple as PP stated.

I will stipulate in my trust that they go when I go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will have mine transported to Fairfax Cryobank. I will pre-pay for 5 years of storage, which comes out to $22 a month. I will be making pre-payments every 5 ($22/moth) or 10 ($20/month) years until I die. At that point they will die with me.

Wow. What is the point of this? Asking respectfully.

PGS science is not 100%, new technologies might be developed for more in-depth analysis and/or correction of issues (although not in our lifetime), they are life (although frozen), just because they are few cells they are no less human, I could never sleep again peacefully if I made them perish.

It's true about science and new technologies, but what would you do if in 20 years the technologies are available to fix them? Hire a gestational carrier to give birth to them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will have mine transported to Fairfax Cryobank. I will pre-pay for 5 years of storage, which comes out to $22 a month. I will be making pre-payments every 5 ($22/moth) or 10 ($20/month) years until I die. At that point they will die with me.

Wow. What is the point of this? Asking respectfully.

PGS science is not 100%, new technologies might be developed for more in-depth analysis and/or correction of issues (although not in our lifetime), they are life (although frozen), just because they are few cells they are no less human, I could never sleep again peacefully if I made them perish.

It's true about science and new technologies, but what would you do if in 20 years the technologies are available to fix them? Hire a gestational carrier to give birth to them?

The answer is yes.
However, I was told by one prominent RE that we will not see it happen or approved in our lifetime.

[Anonymous]

Many people thought CRISPR would be the answer to editing embryos but even if the technique is refined the legal issues may not be for a very long time.

[Anonymous]

In my opinion, they are just a bunch of cells that are incompatible with life. Don't waste your money--have them discarded.

[Anonymous]

I had my PGS abnormal embryos discarded. I view all embryos as potential life but not at all the same as human life. After 5 cycles where all my blasts failed to implanted I had an ERA that showed I was pre-receptive on day 5. As such I think more about my PGS normal embryos that did not implant.

[Anonymous]

Shady Grove made me discard them on the day of my embryo transfer. And they didn't really give me much choice about it. i was laying on the table waiting for my FET when they made me sign a document doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, they are just a bunch of cells that are incompatible with life. Don't waste your money--have them discarded.

This just isn’t true in all cases.


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