After seven egg retrieval cycles and multiple failed transfers, a 42-year-old patient decides to skip PGT-A and became pregnant with two untested frozen day 5 embryos.
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📊 Story Snapshot
👩 Age: 42📆 Years trying: 5
🧬 Embryo: Two Day 5 blastocysts, untested
🧪 Retrievals: 7
🐣 Transfers: Not stated
💊 Diagnosis: Not stated
📈 Outcome: Pregnant at 12 weeks
I got married at 37 and was encouraged to try naturally by my doctor. We then did about 7-8 months of clomid, monitored cycles and timed intercourse over a period of about 14 months.
With no success we tried IVF. First round we got 4 eggs, 2 mature but both had arrested by day 2.
2nd cycle we got 9 eggs, 5 mature and sent for PGS testing on day 3, 4 came back as normal. Implanted 2 on day 5 but no success. Unfortunately the other 2 were discarded, as the country I live in did not allowing freezing at that time.
This became even more disappointing as time went on because for subsequent cycles we had a maximum of 1 “normal” after each collection of between 7-11 eggs. 1 cycle we had zero.
Round 6 at 41 years of age, 2 were sent for genetic testing and 1 was deemed abnormal and 1 mosaic. This started my research about mosaic blastocysts and I started to feel that I didn’t want to test again because I had a hunch the testing was incorrect/misleading.
Round 7 we ended up with 5 mature fertilized eggs that made it to day 5 and we froze them. I had previously always done fresh transfer. No testing. 2 were transferred about 2 months later and both stuck. Unfortunately 1 stopped developing around week 8 but the other one is strong and growing well. I am currently 12 weeks pregnant and 42 years old.
Despite the fact we will have to wait to see if any abnormalities are present for some time, I’m glad I followed my instinct not to test this batch.
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