After 4 failed IUIs, a D&C, and polyp removal, this 41-year-old patient with PCOS conceived through IVF using a day 3 untested embryo, and delivered a healthy baby boy just before turning 42.
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📊 Story Snapshot
👩 Age: 41📆 Years trying: Not stated
🧬 Embryo: Day 3 embryo, untested
🧪 Retrievals: 2
🐣 Transfers: 1
💊 Diagnosis: PCOS
📈 Outcome: Live birth at age 41
We started fertility treatments because we are a same sex couple, but I also have PCOS. By the time we started our first IUI I was already 40. After a year of 4 failed IUIs, a canceled cycle, a D&C and removal of a polyp, and lots of heartache and expense, we had all but given up. By this time I was 41.
But we gave it one more shot.
We proceeded to IVF. At retrieval there were 9 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized (ICSI), and on day 3 we still had all 3. 2 were 4/8, and 1 3/8. We froze at 3 days and did not PGS. I had a single transfer 2 months later. That resulted in my healthy baby boy born 3 weeks before I turned 42 and who is now 2 months old.
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