Anonymous wrote:it's impossible to know. I made one embryo at 42 after YEARS of DOR and failed transfers. didn't test, have healthy 7 month old girl.
Case in point.
42, no baseline fertility issues, just older.
Miscarried the first two IVF cycle’s worth of fresh blast transfers (2-3 untested at a time), then got zero normal embryos from 2 rounds of testing (I make ridiculously large numbers of blasts). Consulted CCRM CO and was told I needed donor eggs based on the two rounds of no normals (which seems to be the advice they give a lot of women).
Finally worked with an RE who is old school yet evidence-based, a nationally renown lecturer on the limitations of testing and trashing potentially good embryos.
Transferred 5 untested day 3 embryos (which guidelines allow for my age). It’s less elegant this way, but I trust my body more than PGT software and am willing to terminate if need be.
So far have 1 boy whose NIPT and nuchal tests have been normal.