We did shared risk and 2:1 shared DE at SGF. Success on first try. 24 year old donor. 15 eggs. 3 viable embryos. Fresh not frozen. Personally I would stick with SGF. They have a better and larger donor pool than other clinics and now that you’ve been thru it once you can move more quickly and be more strategic in your selection.

I'm so sorry for your loss. We didn't do PGS testing but I miscarried two donor transfers in a row and it was so hard. For DC1 it took two donor-egg transfers to be successful. For DC2 it took 4 transfers (2 miscarriages, 1 failed implantation, 1 success). We did two batches of frozen eggs with RBA for our 2 children. Before moving to RBA we were going to use GIVF (they kicked us out due to my diagnosis). But back in 2016 GIVF had a pretty good frozen egg bank selection with adult photos and I think a 2- day 5 embryo guarantee similar to RBA . If you are considering changing clinics I would look at GIVF.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I'd definitely make sure there's nothing else that could've been responsible for your miscarriage other than bad luck. I personally had success from Shady Grove, but I know from hearing other stories, it doesn't sound like they dig too deep in looking for other issues affecting pregnancy (especially immune). I wouldn't be concerned with their lab, however. Overall, their SART scores are pretty high, especially considering they tend to only allowed single embryo transfers. I also would say a known successful donor would be good for peace of mind.

Consider frozen. You at least know what you’re getting. At least that was my thinking when I was straight to donor egg.

I’m so sorry, OP. Miscarrying a PGS normal donor embryo just seems like it should be impossible.

Has your DH looked into sperm fragmentation issues? Did you do ICSI/PICSI?

Do you have any autoimmune or other health issues that could be making it hard to carry a pregnancy?

We did frozen donor egg at SG and our RE insisted on us picking a proven donor, that is a donor with a record of successful donor pregnancies. It still took two transfers to succeed. I don't know if you can do the same for fresh donors but it might be worth asking.

How about Dominion Fertility? I had a good experience when I switched there after everything about the GW clinic was wrong for me. I don't have experience with donor egg, but I found that feeling secure and trusting my clinic was a godsend after the stress I endured as a GW patient.

I’ve been with SGF for over a year. I was 38 when we started and we went straight to Donor egg due to my diagnosis (I don’t want to debate that in this discussion, I know that is controversial for many).
We opted for the shared risk and 3:1 shared donor program. We ended up with only 2 PGS normal embryos and while it met their minimum it was much less than what I know some others have received. Our first FET failed, I had to push and beg for an ERA and ReCeptivaDX test and glad we did my ERA showed non-responsive.

We finally transferred our last, and I’m currently having a miscarriage at 7 weeks with a donor egg PGS tested embryo (it feels so cold to say it like that).
My husband is talking about spending even more money to move to the 2:1 shared donor program but I can’t help to think something is off. I feel helpless in that I don’t see many options for donor egg and I’m technically in NOVA. I can tell most people don’t love SGF and I can say they have caused a lot of distress this past year. I love my local office staff but HQ needs to be overhauled.

I’ve read through many of the posts on DE here and I still feel confused. I fear that the lab or embryologist at SGF are awful or something else is going on they aren’t willing to look at. We were originally allocated 8 eggs and 5 fertilized, I felt that was a bit low for no known MFI and a donor egg. We had absolutely no day 5 embryos, lost 1 at day 7 and froze 4 and sent them for PGS testing. Only two were PGS normal.

I know my doctor well enough he will just say this stuff happens, but looking at these stats it just doesn’t add up. Best case only 1 of our embryos would of been viable and I just happen to lose that due to my non-receptive status at time of transfer? My gut just says something doesn’t seem right.

I’ve seen CCRM mentioned but it looks like any option I go with I would still monitor at SGF? Can anyone provide thoughts or insight? And what other clinics would you consider. The money back guarantee was my safety net, but I feel like I’ve cost our family so much pain.
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