ElizaB
March 4th, 2020, 09:48 AM
I read on here that iui has low success rates, but I got pregnant on my first iui attempt with my first son so I have no reason to think that it would be an issue. My second son was unplanned.
I am not really too keen on doing IVF. First, I have always had an ultra low to undetectable amh and low afc. At this point, since I have readings spanning from age 31 to 39 and they are not decreasing, the conclusion is pretty much that I just don't recruit many eggs, but it doesn't seem to have affected my ability to get pregnant. However, because I only seem to recruit 2-4 eggs rather than the normal 10-15, it is unlikely that I would get very many in an ivf cycle. Also, I don't really know what I would do if I had extra embryos.
Thus, I have been looking into the sperm spinning. Two clinics do it here in Houston. One told me their success rate was only about 55 percent. I did not understand if this meant 55 percent pregnancy or 55 percent of the wanted gender.
My question is: Has anyone done this and was it successful?
I am worried that no amount of swaying is going to get me a girl. If one went by all of the sway techniques, my second son should have undoubtedly been a girl. I think, perhaps, my husband's sperm count may be working against me. When we did the iui, his sperm count was 880 million.
(How all of that came about: At age 31, did testing to see where I was in terms of egg reserve and it came back my AMH was 0.5 and my FSH was 13. AMH next came back undetectable. I had been planning on waiting another couple of years. My OB sent me straight away to an RE who did more testing. Additional testing came back I had a Fragile X premutation that causes POF (premature ovarian failure) so we immediately jumped into ART after only 3 months of trying because they thought I was perimenopausal. 8 years later, my FSH was actually lower (10) and my AMH higher (0.17) last time I had it checked. I still have regular periods so the conclusion is basically my mutation probably just makes it where I don't recruit many eggs but haven't gone through menopause early.)
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I am not really too keen on doing IVF. First, I have always had an ultra low to undetectable amh and low afc. At this point, since I have readings spanning from age 31 to 39 and they are not decreasing, the conclusion is pretty much that I just don't recruit many eggs, but it doesn't seem to have affected my ability to get pregnant. However, because I only seem to recruit 2-4 eggs rather than the normal 10-15, it is unlikely that I would get very many in an ivf cycle. Also, I don't really know what I would do if I had extra embryos.
Thus, I have been looking into the sperm spinning. Two clinics do it here in Houston. One told me their success rate was only about 55 percent. I did not understand if this meant 55 percent pregnancy or 55 percent of the wanted gender.
My question is: Has anyone done this and was it successful?
I am worried that no amount of swaying is going to get me a girl. If one went by all of the sway techniques, my second son should have undoubtedly been a girl. I think, perhaps, my husband's sperm count may be working against me. When we did the iui, his sperm count was 880 million.
(How all of that came about: At age 31, did testing to see where I was in terms of egg reserve and it came back my AMH was 0.5 and my FSH was 13. AMH next came back undetectable. I had been planning on waiting another couple of years. My OB sent me straight away to an RE who did more testing. Additional testing came back I had a Fragile X premutation that causes POF (premature ovarian failure) so we immediately jumped into ART after only 3 months of trying because they thought I was perimenopausal. 8 years later, my FSH was actually lower (10) and my AMH higher (0.17) last time I had it checked. I still have regular periods so the conclusion is basically my mutation probably just makes it where I don't recruit many eggs but haven't gone through menopause early.)
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