After years of struggling with endometriosis and diminished ovarian reserve, a 34-year-old patient conceived from a day 3 transfer using one of just two fertilized eggs. Her daughter was born healthy.
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📊 Story Snapshot
👩 Age: 34📆 Years trying: Not stated
🧬 Embryo: Day 3 good quality embryo
🧪 Retrievals: Not stated
🐣 Transfers: 1
💊 Diagnosis: Endometriosis, Low AMH / DOR
📈 Outcome: Live birth
I have severe endometriosis that left me with severe diminished ovarian reserve and just one single partially functioning ovary at 34. My AMH is at 0.19 and with IVF I never got more than 2 eggs per cycle. With the latest cycle, I had 2 eggs and luckily both fertilized. Because of the very low number of eggs and embryos, my clinic decided to do a day 3 transfer.
I had a 10 cell embryo of good quality (although it showed vacuoles in the early stages of development) transferred on Day 3. I was absolutely certain it would not work. I took a home pregnancy test almost every day. I never got a positive result.
Then, the very night before my Beta test, I retested again at home, just to be prepared for a negative test. And lo and behold, it came back positive! The Beta the next day showed a strong positive. My daughter was born happy and healthy 8 months later and is now a very busy toddler.
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