I am 39 years old this month and have 3 kids from my first marriage. My husband is younger then me and has no children. We've been ttc for 3 or 4 years, doing clomid, gonal -f, iui's etc etc. Just did my first IVF cycle. Stimulated for 12 days and on the 11th day my estrogen went to over 16,000, I have pcos, and had 26 follicles because of it. So, they gave me Lupron to trigger and did a freeze all cycle. No fresh transfer for me :( . But we had 12 eggs, 10 fertilized, 2 began to deteriorate pretty much right away. They froze one embryo yesterday (day 4) froze 2 today and are watching 4 others for another day or so.
After this long ttc it is difficult to stay positive that anything will work!
Congrats to all those with bfps!!!!
Hi,
I will be 42 in 3 weeks and just had an egg retrieval yesterday from my 2nd IVF cycle. We ended up with 19 mature eggs. Got a call from the nurse this morning to let me know that all fertilized. My first cycle yielded 13 mature eggs and 9 embryos. My period started shortly after the transfer. Praying that all goes well this go around since it is my last.
Don't worry! you will definitely have some nice embies to transfer. and God will bless you with a pregnancy and beautiful babies. I know how frustrating it can be. I have had to failed IVFs. I was lucky enough to have 8 frozen embies and I am now waiting to lose some weight per my doctors recommendation, so we can do a frozen transfer and also be blessed with a pregnancy.
Hello Everybody,
This is my second full IVF fresh cycle. First cycle we had 11 eggs, 9 mature 6 fertilized and four were good quality embryos. We transferred two and froze the other two. I got a negative pregancy test two weeks later. After waiting for what seemed an eternity, my husband and I decided to do a frozen cycle and use the two embryos that we had frozen. After getting to the day that the transfer was supposed to happen, we got the phone call we were dreading, neither embryo had survived the thaw. We went right into another full cycle and I had my egg retrieval yesterday. They took out 16 eggs, 12 of which were mature, 7 fertilized with ICSI. Two were abnormal and now we have 5 embryos that they are continuing to monitor. We're praying that they continue to divide and we have at least one to transfer.
No Folicle and egg is different thing.Folicle is a wall like place where egg grow.Suppose you have 15 folicles of required size then retrival of egg would be 60 to 80% so its around 9 to 12.Again fertilisation rate is 60 to 80% so you have only 5 to 7 embroys(fertilised egg) out of 9 to 12 retrived eggs.Again Surviaval of embroy at Cleavage stage(3 day) and at Blasto cyst stage(5 day) is 60 to 70% so at the end you have only 3 to 4 good quality embroy at clavage stage and 1,2 or None at Blastocyst stage.So this is the number game and thats why full stimulated cycle is benefetial compared to MINI ivf.
Is egg the same thing as follicles? Because I am doing iui and have around 8 to 9 follicles on each side but then only 1 or 2 become big. So if you are getting 3 big follicles then maybe that is normal?