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[quote=Anonymous]Eight eggs is a good number, especially at your age. I would wait to see how many embryos you wind up with from the cycle. You could very well have success on your first transfer with a fresh embryo or later on with frozen. You could press ahead and do another immediate egg retrieval, but unless you wind up with no embryos from this round, I would not go that route. More time, more cost, more strain on your body. And it may be totally unnecessary if you have viable embryos to work with from your first cycle.

More eggs doesn’t always mean more viable embryos. I’m actually a good example of that. During my first IVF cycle, I had 23 eggs retrieved. They were all mature and they all fertilized and we wound op with 5 embryos. After a few rounds of FETs we still weren’t pregnant. I did another egg retrieval and we only retrieved 5 eggs. I was absolutely devastated and cried all the way home. If we could not get pregnant when we started with 23 eggs how would we ever get pregnant when we only had 5 eggs? Well, surprisingly, we wound up again with 5 embryos. So the same number of embryos from a large number of eggs and a small number of eggs. (And we got pregnant from one of those 5 eggs). Wishing you luck. [/quote]

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