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[quote=Anonymous]Personally I don't think it makes much sense to get hung up on the stats because every woman, every egg, and every pregnancy are different. For every woman who is 25 and can't get pg there is a 45 yo who experiences a miracle baby. But there's no way to know where you are in the distribution. (Heisenberg's Unexplained Infertility Principle?) And the bottom line is still the same. You have two options: 1) DE and 2) luck.

IVF is actually just luck on steroids if you think about it. You are taking your 20 chances and going for all (or a portion) of them all at once - but it's still the luck of the draw whether you get a good egg. There's nothing magic about IVF that somehow makes the good eggs show up.

And BTW, ovarian reserve is just a proxy for egg quality. It's not an unequivocal indicator. If you really want to know what your egg quality is like, you need to do PGD. But I would only recommend PGD if you are like me, and you have a hard time accepting that it is age related decline because you eat organic and exercise and take good care of yourself and you just can't fathom that all those Chinese herbs and acupuncture haven't made you the exception to the rule that you've always been in every other area of your life. When you get those results though, it will be like a cold bucket of water over the head. You'll get unequivocal proof that age related decline is absolutely real, but it's cost you $15k. Ha! The price of stubbornness.

OP, I agree with your RE. Just keep trying and stop when you can't take it anymore.[/quote]

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