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[quote=Anonymous]I say this kindly OP:

You are past the point of egg freezing. Unless you have the FSH/AMH/AFC of a 30 year old, it's unethical of your RE to push egg freezing with you without a serious conversation about your very low chance of success. The challenge is not just the number of eggs retrieved, but that at 40 the odds those eggs survive unfreezing and then go on to make a genetically normal embryo are low. The other problem with egg freezing at 40 is that you do not know if ultimately those eggs will be successful. If you bank a decent number of eggs after three cycles, you are going to move forward with a lot of big life decisions under the assumption there's a good chance of a baby in there. How will you feel at 45 if you thaw those eggs, no baby and you are past the point of trying to get pregnant with IVF or naturally?

And I'm telling you this as someone who was an egg freezing success story. I froze 22 eggs at 35 (two cycles) and ultimately had two genetically normal embryos that resulted in one miscarriage and one successful pregnancy - and that's it from 22 relatively young eggs. If you freeze 22 eggs at 40, odds are you end up with 0-1 normal embryos (because old eggs = more abnormal embryos). If you freeze a lot less than 22 eggs, you are very likely to end up with 0 normal embryos. You also have no idea if you will end up having uterine or receptivity issues - something you often only find out after more than one embryo transfer.

The best thing you can do for yourself is either move forward now on trying to get pregnant with a donor - and throw every possible resource at that. Truly everything - every test, every supplement, everything. Or begin to make peace with the fact with the low odds of a bio child from frozen eggs.

And truly that option may be okay. Some people only want to have children with a partner and that's fine. But if you want a child at any cost, the time to move forward on that is now.
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