jess_10
January 30th, 2013, 09:33 AM
Good Morning Dr Potter!!
I am seeking your expertise on my situation. I will try and keep this short, I am 35 and my husband is 37. We have two beautiful girls, one is seven and it took us about nine months of trying naturally to have her, and our second is one, and it only took about a month of trying naturally for her. But we want nothing more then a beautiful boy to complete our family, so we decided on IVF/PGD even though we were able to concieve just fine without help, we just figured we didn't want to take that chance again.
We went through all of our initial screening because it is required and did not really think anything would come back since we had two babies on our own. But interestingly enough, my husbands sperm came back with low count and low mobility. At the time, the doctor said no worry that ICSI would take care of that anyway, so no need to do anything more about it. So we started, I did great, the stims were great and I responded exactly as they wanted to the medicine, they retrieved 27 eggs. I may have had a slight case of OHSS afterwards so they gave me some additional medicines to take, but I was feeling better by about four days after. Anyway, so out of 27 eggs, 19 were mature, 18 fertilized, then on Day 3 we had twelve that were developing well and between 7 to 10 cells, but then we got the call on Day 5, only three had progressed to blastocysts, but they scheduled us for transfer the next day. On our way there the next day they called and said all three tested abnormal with PGD, and we had nothing to transfer. I am devastated, I was told that this whole process should go great for us since we had two babies naturally, and because our embryos were doing so well on Day 3 and also the sheer number of eggs that were retrieved. I am scheduled for a review of everything in two weeks, but it is killing me to know why and how this happened. I was just wondering if you had any insight as to what caused the growth of our embryos to stop after Day 3. And also if we do this again, will they all be abnormal again? Thanks so much,
-Wanting a Boy, :babym: Maryland
I am seeking your expertise on my situation. I will try and keep this short, I am 35 and my husband is 37. We have two beautiful girls, one is seven and it took us about nine months of trying naturally to have her, and our second is one, and it only took about a month of trying naturally for her. But we want nothing more then a beautiful boy to complete our family, so we decided on IVF/PGD even though we were able to concieve just fine without help, we just figured we didn't want to take that chance again.
We went through all of our initial screening because it is required and did not really think anything would come back since we had two babies on our own. But interestingly enough, my husbands sperm came back with low count and low mobility. At the time, the doctor said no worry that ICSI would take care of that anyway, so no need to do anything more about it. So we started, I did great, the stims were great and I responded exactly as they wanted to the medicine, they retrieved 27 eggs. I may have had a slight case of OHSS afterwards so they gave me some additional medicines to take, but I was feeling better by about four days after. Anyway, so out of 27 eggs, 19 were mature, 18 fertilized, then on Day 3 we had twelve that were developing well and between 7 to 10 cells, but then we got the call on Day 5, only three had progressed to blastocysts, but they scheduled us for transfer the next day. On our way there the next day they called and said all three tested abnormal with PGD, and we had nothing to transfer. I am devastated, I was told that this whole process should go great for us since we had two babies naturally, and because our embryos were doing so well on Day 3 and also the sheer number of eggs that were retrieved. I am scheduled for a review of everything in two weeks, but it is killing me to know why and how this happened. I was just wondering if you had any insight as to what caused the growth of our embryos to stop after Day 3. And also if we do this again, will they all be abnormal again? Thanks so much,
-Wanting a Boy, :babym: Maryland