Rosie from Edinburgh conceived after 5 years, 5 failed transfers, and 3 retrievals — thanks to a Day 6 CC embryo. She’s now 20 weeks pregnant with a baby boy.
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📊 Story Snapshot
👩 Age: 37📆 Years trying: 5
🧬 Embryo: Day 6 CC
🧪 Retrievals: 3
🐣 Transfers: 5
💊 Diagnosis: Unexplained infertility
📈 Outcome: 20 weeks pregnant with a baby boy
After 5 years I finally fell pregnant with embryo, a day 6 embryo with a C grade.
Over the years I tried everything from acupuncture, so many different “fertility diets”, a mountain of supplements, exercise (but not too much) and so many blood tests. Then, 4 years ago, we contacted a fertility clinic and went through all our fertility testing to be told I had a high follicle count and my husband had a high sperm count, and the advice was to keep trying naturally.
A year later we still were not pregnant and started the process of IVF. But sadly what I thought was going to be the solution to all this didn’t turn out that way.
We ended up having 2 egg collections and neither produced anything more than an embryo with a C grade. Our first cycle resulted in 2 failed transfers and 1 not surviving the thawing. Our second egg collections resulted in only 1 grade C and 1 grade D – out of 18 eggs and 15 fertilising. So we transferred both and they both failed.
After this, we decided to take a break as the years of trying and failing had taken a huge toll on us both. I realised I’d been so unhappy for so long, it felt like I’d been living under a dark cloud. I started to try and heal, throwing out all the supplements, stopped the diets and started to live.
I’d spent so much time not planning anything “just in case!” that I stopped socialising and enjoying life that so much time had just passed me by. I started to accept that having a baby wasn’t going to happen but life could still be great.
Then earlier this year we decided to try one last time, we transferred 2 grade C day 6 embryos. This time I had no expectations, but somehow after 5 years I got a positive! I’m now 20 weeks pregnant with 1 baby boy.
What would you say to someone who’s going through what you went through?
“Remember — there is life outside of fertility and don’t allow it to consume you. Book the holiday, have the night out. I still don’t understand how it worked this time, with such a low graded, low developing embryo, but it did. The only thing I can contribute it to is that this time I went into it happy and mentally so much stronger.
— Rosie from Edinburgh
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