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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who posted the link. I only posted it because we worked with Dr. Braverman and spoke with him first hand about the very small sampling of women that he used as part of the study in which he transferred abnormal embryos.

He made it clear that this was the very last option for these women. They knew the risks going into the study (possibility of TFMR or carrying a baby who is incompatible with life were obvious risks). Still, these women chose to go forward with deliberately transferring abnormal embryos, and several in the small study had success, giving birth to a healthy baby.

Based on this, along with other knowledge that he imparted, and also based on the fact that my wife had a lot of trouble getting anything to day 5, we decided to forgo any PGS testing. This was a tough call for us, as we had to TFMR at Shady Grove (which led us to then testing the one embryo that was remaining - it was normal but the cycle didn't work, we believe because the embryo was damaged during the biopsy). We proceeded to work with Dr. Braverman and Dr. Davis at Cornell, doing both fresh day 3 transfers and eventually, an FET in which the embryos were frozen on day 1. One of those non-tested, frozen on day 1 embryos took, and we now have a 10 month old.

Here is link to a study that helps explain why PGS isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27595768

I'm not saying PGS isn't beneficial - for people who are able to produce many embryos that make it to day 5, PGS absolutely makes sense. For people who have known genetic issues, PGS makes sense. But for us, we were willing to take the risk of not testing based on this information felt like a worthy gamble. It paid off for us, but I couldn't guarantee it would pay off for everyone. I wish everyone here the best of luck as they go through this very difficult journey. [/quote]

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