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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I'm glad you're thinking about this ahead of time.  
Have you thought about doing Natural IVF (Dominion and GW both do this, I think).

Before my husband and I went the IVF route, we decided to give every embryo a chance at life.  Since I was a month shy of 41 we figured this wouldn't be much of a problem since we figured we'd be lucky to get one or two viable embies.  Well fast forward to retrieval -  [b]I produced 42 mature eggs that cycle and 28 became high quality embyos. [/b] We were in shock.  Because I had OHSS, we only transferred one 5 day blast.  That embryo became dc - 1.  We had 27 embryos left so we did three subsequent FETs and got pregnant with our second chld. [b] We now have 20 embryos left.[/b]  At this point, we feel do not feel we want to continue having children due to our age, but we still feel that each embryo is a life waiting to happen.  Our clinic does not do embryo adoption, so that's not an option for us.  We pay the annual fee to keep the embryos around.  Still trying to figure out what to do.  This is a nightmare that we hadn't envisioned.  If Natural IVF had been an option we surely would have gone that route.

PLEASE consider natural IVF or low dose stims.  I do hope you end up with as many children as you like but don't get stuck in our situation. [/quote]

OP is ok having 4 children.[/quote]

But with 20 emberyos left, she could still end up having embryos remaining even after conceiving 3 additional children.  Perhaps not likely but very possible.[/quote]

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