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Anonymous wrote:41, just did our first ivf cycle for our 3rd. Conceived first two naturally. Tried for a year for #3 and had a couple of miscarriages. Struggled with the decision to keep trying on our own or move on to ivf. Decided to try ivf. Waiting for results of our PGS tested embryos. If this doesn’t work, we will try on our own for another year before calling it quits.

Thanks for sharing... mind me asking how did you + partner decide on this course of action? (IVF-- one cycle and then on your own before calling it quits)

Well, our ages for one (we thought we would be done having kids by 40/41), we also don’t want our kids to be too far apart in age (our youngest is about to turn 3), we paid out of pocket, and I don’t want to keep pumping massive amounts of hormones into my body.

I would not. I did IVF twice for a first child and neither round was successful. I ended up pregnant naturally a few months later so I am happy I have at least one but there's no way I would go through it all again considering the cost for one but also since both cycles were such a disaster and my eggs have only since gotten older.

Anonymous wrote:41, just did our first ivf cycle for our 3rd. Conceived first two naturally. Tried for a year for #3 and had a couple of miscarriages. Struggled with the decision to keep trying on our own or move on to ivf. Decided to try ivf. Waiting for results of our PGS tested embryos. If this doesn’t work, we will try on our own for another year before calling it quits.

Thanks for sharing... mind me asking how did you + partner decide on this course of action? (IVF-- one cycle and then on your own before calling it quits)

41, just did our first ivf cycle for our 3rd. Conceived first two naturally. Tried for a year for #3 and had a couple of miscarriages. Struggled with the decision to keep trying on our own or move on to ivf. Decided to try ivf. Waiting for results of our PGS tested embryos. If this doesn’t work, we will try on our own for another year before calling it quits.

I did IVF for a 4th kid (2nd husband who really wanted a bio kid). So yes.

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Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

What is the age difference between your kids? We have one kid from an ivf and a second that was a spontaneous pregnancy. We have one frostie left from our first failed ivf that I'm really not sure which way to go on.

When the 3rd is born, DS will be 7 (almost 8) and DD will be 3. I'm 44.

Thanks for sharing this information. I just turned 40 and have a soon to be 4 year old and a 14 month old. Our frostie is from when I was 35 and was the 3rd embryo from our first IVF that was good quality. We transferred the best two and neither took and froze this one. I kind of feel that this one would take for some strange reason (best out of three type of situation). Our firstborn came from IVF #2 and our second was spontaneous. I can't imagine being pregnant again anytime soon so figure if we were to give this little one a chance I'd be looking at your age spread and I'd be 42. Let us know how it all goes once you deliver.

How come you did another IVF instead of transferring the frozen one first? Curious since I am in the same situation... one frostie left.

At the time my insurance covered three ivfs per live birth. Our dx was unexplained infertility and I was 35 at the time. The first ivf cycle gave us no additional information as to what was wrong. We had two great 5 day blasts and the frostie was a 6-day blast. It just seemed to make more financial sense to jump right into another fresh cycle and use those up since we had met our deductible already. We had planned to use our frostie for kid #2 but then found out we were pregnant about a week before I was scheduled to remove a tube due to a suspicion that it had fluid in it. I was actually getting ready for the fet as far as baseline testing etc. Which all showed that my stats had declined in the approx. 3 years since we were last pregnant.

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Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

What is the age difference between your kids? We have one kid from an ivf and a second that was a spontaneous pregnancy. We have one frostie left from our first failed ivf that I'm really not sure which way to go on.

When the 3rd is born, DS will be 7 (almost 8) and DD will be 3. I'm 44.

Thanks for sharing this information. I just turned 40 and have a soon to be 4 year old and a 14 month old. Our frostie is from when I was 35 and was the 3rd embryo from our first IVF that was good quality. We transferred the best two and neither took and froze this one. I kind of feel that this one would take for some strange reason (best out of three type of situation). Our firstborn came from IVF #2 and our second was spontaneous. I can't imagine being pregnant again anytime soon so figure if we were to give this little one a chance I'd be looking at your age spread and I'd be 42. Let us know how it all goes once you deliver.

How come you did another IVF instead of transferring the frozen one first? Curious since I am in the same situation... one frostie left.

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Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

What is the age difference between your kids? We have one kid from an ivf and a second that was a spontaneous pregnancy. We have one frostie left from our first failed ivf that I'm really not sure which way to go on.

When the 3rd is born, DS will be 7 (almost 8) and DD will be 3. I'm 44.

Thanks for sharing this information. I just turned 40 and have a soon to be 4 year old and a 14 month old. Our frostie is from when I was 35 and was the 3rd embryo from our first IVF that was good quality. We transferred the best two and neither took and froze this one. I kind of feel that this one would take for some strange reason (best out of three type of situation). Our firstborn came from IVF #2 and our second was spontaneous. I can't imagine being pregnant again anytime soon so figure if we were to give this little one a chance I'd be looking at your age spread and I'd be 42. Let us know how it all goes once you deliver.

And thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

wow, congrats! may i ask how many embyos you had left and how many came out normal?

We had 11 to start with. Put 2 in, and got a singleton DD. Then did PGS on the remaining 9, and 4 were normal.

Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

wow, congrats! may i ask how many embyos you had left and how many came out normal?

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Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

What is the age difference between your kids? We have one kid from an ivf and a second that was a spontaneous pregnancy. We have one frostie left from our first failed ivf that I'm really not sure which way to go on.

When the 3rd is born, DS will be 7 (almost 8) and DD will be 3. I'm 44.

Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

What is the age difference between your kids? We have one kid from an ivf and a second that was a spontaneous pregnancy. We have one frostie left from our first failed ivf that I'm really not sure which way to go on.

Anonymous wrote:We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.

Awesome. Congrats!

We just did a FET for our third child. The embryo came from the only IVF cycle we did that produced our daughter two years ago plus a bunch of extras. We have an older DS as well. 17 weeks along currently.

I will be honest and admit that we wouldn't have pursued it if we didn't have extra embryos that we just didn't have the heart to destroy. We also are very fortunate that we had a bunch of extras, and that insurance paid for everything including PGS. Otherwise, I would consider myself lucky at 44 with two healthy young children. But the embryos were there so here I am gestating the third.