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Anonymous wrote:I conceived my first naturally (after failed IUIs, while waiting to start IVF) and then my second and third kids were via IVF.

I was fortunate to get 8 euploid embryos from my IVF cycle. I transferred two of them three years apart and those are my second and third children.

I have six embryos remaining and I know I am done having children but am have difficulty deciding what to do with the embryos. I know I’m fortunate to have my children and to have had a successful IVF experience, but I still feel a dilemma over the remaining embryos.

I will also add that I’m not comfortable with embryo adoption. I wish I could get there, but I can’t.

You're not alone. I've checked out a couple embryo donation groups to help gather more information and it did help in confirming it is not the decision for me.

Anonymous wrote:I conceived my first naturally (after failed IUIs, while waiting to start IVF) and then my second and third kids were via IVF.

I was fortunate to get 8 euploid embryos from my IVF cycle. I transferred two of them three years apart and those are my second and third children.

I have six embryos remaining and I know I am done having children but am have difficulty deciding what to do with the embryos. I know I’m fortunate to have my children and to have had a successful IVF experience, but I still feel a dilemma over the remaining embryos.

I will also add that I’m not comfortable with embryo adoption. I wish I could get there, but I can’t.

I conceived my first naturally (after failed IUIs, while waiting to start IVF) and then my second and third kids were via IVF.

I was fortunate to get 8 euploid embryos from my IVF cycle. I transferred two of them three years apart and those are my second and third children.

I have six embryos remaining and I know I am done having children but am have difficulty deciding what to do with the embryos. I know I’m fortunate to have my children and to have had a successful IVF experience, but I still feel a dilemma over the remaining embryos.

I had 6 viable embryos and the first transfer gave me my first child. After his first birthday I transferred the second and that was successful as well. I was exhausted from infertility, IVF, two pregnancies and two little kids (who were amazing, but the fatigue was real). I knew there was no way I was going to transfer all of them and I wanted an open embryo adoption for those I didn't transfer so all the genetic siblings could know each other as peers. Donor Conceived People who didn't find their genetic siblings until adulthood often talk of feeling robbed of knowing each other as children.

Anonymous wrote:How many embryos do you have? We ended up with 3 viable embryos. Transferred the first in summer 2015, and our DD was born in early 2016. We waited until she was 2 to transfer the second, but that turned into an ectopic pregnancy. Last transfer was early 2019, but that failed to implant at all.
There was about 7 months in between the last 2 transfers. I could have done that last one a lot sooner, but I wasn't mentally ready for it after dealing with the ectopic.

I have 2 of 5 remaining now.

Total IVF journey took 4 years and 6 transfers, only the last of which worked.

I had 6 retrievals and 3 transfers to get 1 (healthy, wonderful) kid. Lucky transfer was almost 2 years on the dot after the visit to the gyn where I got my RE referral.

If you don't like medicalization you're not going to like a twin pregnancy!

How many embryos do you have? We ended up with 3 viable embryos. Transferred the first in summer 2015, and our DD was born in early 2016. We waited until she was 2 to transfer the second, but that turned into an ectopic pregnancy. Last transfer was early 2019, but that failed to implant at all.
There was about 7 months in between the last 2 transfers. I could have done that last one a lot sooner, but I wasn't mentally ready for it after dealing with the ectopic.

How long was it between your first and last transfers? Did you ultimately decide to transfer all of your embryos? I go back and forth between putting more time between the next transfer, using every embryo, or just discarding because I'm not sure how much more I withstand.