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[quote=Anonymous]While I can somewhat understand the OP's position about not wanting to hear about failed cycles when posters are asking for success stories, I'm less sure I agree with regard to miscarriages.  Most miscarriages are the result of some sort of genetic anomaly that doesn't really have anything to do with the ART.  So the ART could be successful (IUI or IVF) in the sense that it results in a pregnancy, but the pregnancy might ultimately not continue.  In my own view, the latter (miscarriage later in pregnancy) has nothing (or at least nothing that's been demonstrated) to do with whether the specific treatment worked, and so for myself I'd want to know if something like a 6-day transfer resulted in a pregnancy even if the pregnancy ultimately did not lead to a live birth.

In fact, I feel like this board has been particularly helpful for me, as a relative ART newbie, to understand that there's a different between the success rate of a procedure and the success rate of a pregnancy.  Now, of course, one can argue that pregnancies resulting from ART have a higher rate of miscarriage than they would if the couple had gotten pregnant without ART, but I'm not aware that there is good data on that.

Anyway, I don't want to pretend to speak for any other posters on these forums, but as someone who has posted similar questions I do appreciate hearing from people who've had treatments that resulted in pregnancies even if they eventually miscarried. [/quote]

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