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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, you’ve done 8 cycles at 3 different clinics. If you have the resources and want to keep trying—then do it. If you want to increase your odds of expanding your family sooner, I’d say it is time to move on to DE. Why do you think it will take long? How many months or years have you been doing IF treatments so far? (SG moves their egg donors along pretty swiftly—that was never a concern when moving from OE to DE.) Good luck whatever you choose. [/quote]

OP here - I appreciate this. I'm lucky to have insurance that mostly covers IVF, but not DE IVF, so cost-wise, it's been easier to keep going with OE. I'm Indian, so will probably need to use an agency if we hope to find a donor who looks vaguely like us, so that's my concern re: it talking a while. I'll use SGF since I like my doctor there, so glad to hear they move quickly.  [/quote]

You are lucky.  I had no insurance coverage for IVF.  So finances played a large role in my decision making. (At the start of I had to see a fertility counselor who counseled me to make sure I reserved enough money for donor eggs in case it didn't work out)  I did one cycle which produced 2 aneuploid blasts.      I had been planning to go to Czech for cost reasons, when COVID hit.  So I scraped together enough money for 1 more US cycle and fertilized frozen donor eggs along with my own eggs. (My clinic had no extra charge beyond egg thaw for fertilizing donor eggs in addition and also did not have to pay extra for PGS testing donor egg embryos since I was already doing it on my own - at most a nominal amount extra if I ended up with more than 6 blasts which I didn't.)  
That had significant cost advantages and  some psychological advantages (at least for me).   I'm pregnant  with one of the donor egg embryos.  I admit if finances hadn't been such an issue I may have leaned toward trying again with my own eggs.   But definitely shortened the whole process in terms of time.  [/quote]

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