shellburke77
March 30th, 2015, 04:59 AM
Hi All,
I am fresh to all of this so please excuse my ignorance but I would really appreciate some input/advice. I am a 37 year old woman from Aus with a 40 year old hubby and we have two beautiful boys (1 and 4 years). We would dearly love a little girl and are trying to decide whether it is worth spending all of our money (plus some!!) on an IVF/PGD attempt in the US. I have been doing some reading and I know that there seems to be so many factors involved, but the fact that we are older (our birthdays are Sept/Oct) makes me think that we would have to have a fair bit of luck on our side to have success in 1 or even 2 attempts?? I am waiting for some feedback from GSelection Aus about whether the cost for a second round would be the same (if for example we were to freeze hubby's sperm and I were to go back on my own). I am thinking we go ahead and do the pre-testing and have a consult with Dr Potter and see how we go from there. Am I right in thinking Dr Potter's service have one of the better success rates? I don't really know how to interpret the 83 percent success rate (or whatever that exact number is). Is there a certain amount of time you need to wait between cycles? Or should we just try sway....so many questions...and I want to make the best decision for us but I can hear the clock ticking....LOUDLY!!
Thankyou in advance for any advice or even hints on places to look on this site to become better informed :)
I am fresh to all of this so please excuse my ignorance but I would really appreciate some input/advice. I am a 37 year old woman from Aus with a 40 year old hubby and we have two beautiful boys (1 and 4 years). We would dearly love a little girl and are trying to decide whether it is worth spending all of our money (plus some!!) on an IVF/PGD attempt in the US. I have been doing some reading and I know that there seems to be so many factors involved, but the fact that we are older (our birthdays are Sept/Oct) makes me think that we would have to have a fair bit of luck on our side to have success in 1 or even 2 attempts?? I am waiting for some feedback from GSelection Aus about whether the cost for a second round would be the same (if for example we were to freeze hubby's sperm and I were to go back on my own). I am thinking we go ahead and do the pre-testing and have a consult with Dr Potter and see how we go from there. Am I right in thinking Dr Potter's service have one of the better success rates? I don't really know how to interpret the 83 percent success rate (or whatever that exact number is). Is there a certain amount of time you need to wait between cycles? Or should we just try sway....so many questions...and I want to make the best decision for us but I can hear the clock ticking....LOUDLY!!
Thankyou in advance for any advice or even hints on places to look on this site to become better informed :)