how many PGS blasts per child wanted?

[Anonymous]

We only want 1 child. I have one PGS normal. Should we bank more? I don't want excess embryos, but I also know that a PGS normal is no sure thing.

[Anonymous]

I think they say 2-3 PGS normals per child. The chances for a PGS normal to lead to a live birth are 60-65% I think, so assuming each transfer has the same likelihood of success (not sure if that is true), you’d have man 87.75% chance of success after two transfers and a 95.8% chance of success after three transfers.

[Anonymous]

I did back to back cycles after finding out that we only had one normal PGS embryo for a couple of reasons:

1) I did not want to have to start back at zero if it didn't take
2) Our doctor said that he has seen many families think they only want one, esp because they have struggled to conceive, but many times they are right back in his office asking about the next round after a year with their first babies
3) Time is not on my side, I'm almost 39

Big difference for us, though is that we had insurance, so with testing each round was around 9K. If we had been paying fully out of pocket, I might have had a different path.

We ended up with 2 more PGS normal embryos.

[Anonymous]

We had 3 PGS normals and ended up with one child. The other two transfers were an ectopic and a BFN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did back to back cycles after finding out that we only had one normal PGS embryo for a couple of reasons:

1) I did not want to have to start back at zero if it didn't take
2) Our doctor said that he has seen many families think they only want one, esp because they have struggled to conceive, but many times they are right back in his office asking about the next round after a year with their first babies
3) Time is not on my side, I'm almost 39

Big difference for us, though is that we had insurance, so with testing each round was around 9K. If we had been paying fully out of pocket, I might have had a different path.

We ended up with 2 more PGS normal embryos.

Thanks for this perspective. How many children did you end up having fro the 3 ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did back to back cycles after finding out that we only had one normal PGS embryo for a couple of reasons:

1) I did not want to have to start back at zero if it didn't take
2) Our doctor said that he has seen many families think they only want one, esp because they have struggled to conceive, but many times they are right back in his office asking about the next round after a year with their first babies
3) Time is not on my side, I'm almost 39

Big difference for us, though is that we had insurance, so with testing each round was around 9K. If we had been paying fully out of pocket, I might have had a different path.

We ended up with 2 more PGS normal embryos.

Thanks for this perspective. How many children did you end up having fro the 3 ?

I am pregnant with my first from the first transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did back to back cycles after finding out that we only had one normal PGS embryo for a couple of reasons:

1) I did not want to have to start back at zero if it didn't take
2) Our doctor said that he has seen many families think they only want one, esp because they have struggled to conceive, but many times they are right back in his office asking about the next round after a year with their first babies
3) Time is not on my side, I'm almost 39

Big difference for us, though is that we had insurance, so with testing each round was around 9K. If we had been paying fully out of pocket, I might have had a different path.

We ended up with 2 more PGS normal embryos.

Thanks for this perspective. How many children did you end up having fro the 3 ?

I am pregnant with my first from the first transfer.

Wanted to add that this has been a rough pregnancy ... we have no idea at this point if we will do any more transfers. It does bother me that we would potential "waste" precious embryos. Still haven't decided what we'd do with them, but leaning towards donating them to science. Unfortunately fertility is a crapshoot, with so many factors out of one's control. There often are no right or wrong answers.

[Anonymous]

Are you older and is time a huge issue? If you truly only want one child, I'd say do one retrieval at a time. If your transfer doesn't work out, most likely it'll just be an initial BFN and you can move on to another retrieval fairly quickly. The biggest delay you would possibly have would be if there was a later miscarriage, in which it would take several months to have another retrieval. It's unfortunately a very real possibility for all transfers and pregnancies, but the odds of that happening would hopefully be very low since your embryo is PGS normal.

[Anonymous]

I miscarried my first PGS normal and for various medical reasons (some due to the miscarriage), it was 10 months before I could transfer again.

I'm really, really glad I had more than one embryo.

2nd one was successful. 1 remaining. Now on the fence regarding using it to try for a second child. At the time I did IVF I was just desperate to have 1 child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you older and is time a huge issue? If you truly only want one child, I'd say do one retrieval at a time. If your transfer doesn't work out, most likely it'll just be an initial BFN and you can move on to another retrieval fairly quickly. The biggest delay you would possibly have would be if there was a later miscarriage, in which it would take several months to have another retrieval. It's unfortunately a very real possibility for all transfers and pregnancies, but the odds of that happening would hopefully be very low since your embryo is PGS normal.

I'm 36; this is my third cycle, second retrieval (one of my cycles was cancelled due to low response).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I miscarried my first PGS normal and for various medical reasons (some due to the miscarriage), it was 10 months before I could transfer again.

I'm really, really glad I had more than one embryo.

2nd one was successful. 1 remaining. Now on the fence regarding using it to try for a second child. At the time I did IVF I was just desperate to have 1 child.

I'm sorry about your miscarriage. Did your RE ever give you any reasons for it or testing or anything? That's really rough.

[Anonymous]

how many UNTESTED blasts should one have then per child wanted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how many UNTESTED blasts should one have then per child wanted?

It depends on your age, egg quality, sperm quality, lab quality, your uterus, and so on. Some people succeed on first shot, others take much longer. No universal number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I miscarried my first PGS normal and for various medical reasons (some due to the miscarriage), it was 10 months before I could transfer again.

I'm really, really glad I had more than one embryo.

2nd one was successful. 1 remaining. Now on the fence regarding using it to try for a second child. At the time I did IVF I was just desperate to have 1 child.

I'm sorry about your miscarriage. Did your RE ever give you any reasons for it or testing or anything? That's really rough.

Multiple second opinions and pretty extensive testing, as well as switching clinics, and no reason was ever found. Most REs I consulted with thought it was a lab error, not my body. Transferring a second time was the bravest - and best - thing I've done.

[Anonymous]

Maybe not much help here, but I would transfer the blast you have, presuming it is an FET at this point, and if necessary, do another egg retrieval cycle. I’m sure you and your doctors are on top of that but maybe if a next cycle is needed you can stimulate higher to get more embryos that could lead to potential blasts. All that said, I had a successful pregnancy during the cycle where I produced the fewest number of eggs and embryos, and it was with an untested non-blast one at that. You just never know. Wishing you tons of luck.