Single Embryo Transfer Success Stories

Echloe

Hi girls,

I miss hanging out here.  I hope everyone is doing well and that I can join you again soon. I'm gearing up to do a frozen transfer in a few weeks and I need to decide whether to transfer 1 or 2 embies.    With my successful IVF cycle we transfered 2 and only ended up with one baby.  But even with the one I still had PTL and ended up losing our daughter.  My peri thinks that if we ended up with twins it would be fine.  I'll be carefully watched and probably on bedrest if I get pregnant anyway so he says to go ahead and transfer 2.  But my RE is nervous for us and suggests just transferring one.   

I'm nervous about not getting pregnant this cycle and having to repeat the process month after month.  So I'd rather up my chances and put in 2.  But I'm a little nervous about the risk of putting in 2 and both sticking or even ending up with triplets.  There is no way my body can handle 3 if it has trouble with 1!!  :  (

Anyway, sorry to ramble but I really just want to know that it can work with 1 embie.  I know it worked for Schmoodle but are there any others out there.  TIA 

rockvillebride

There's another former SAIF'r who doesn't post much anymore who did a SET with success on the first try. Good luck!

*Bloom2be*

Sorry for your loss I just wanted to share that on my first IVF we only transferred 1 embryo (as our RE recommended) and it worked and I am 5 weeks along with our baby I know that success rates with FET aren't as high, so if it was me and if we go through that with our 2nd child I will probably transfer 2, but that's completely up to you and your dr. I would only do what you feel comfortable with.  GL!

schmoodle

I think Radler did and maybe GermanWife2be (something like that). Hoping for the best for you, whatever you decide. Interesting re: your doctor's opinions, ours were the opposite (RE seemed ok with 2 but MFM strongly urged us to transfer 1 - at which point RE agreed).

Echloe

schmoodle:

I think Radler did and maybe GermanWife2be (something like that). Hoping for the best for you, whatever you decide. Interesting re: your doctor's opinions, ours were the opposite (RE seemed ok with 2 but MFM strongly urged us to transfer 1 - at which point RE agreed).

 I wish my doctors agreed.  I think my RE just wants to be super careful because she doesn't want me to back there again with another loss on our hands.  She cried when I came back to see her so I feel like she is as very emotionally invested in this so that adds to her not wanting to take the chance of multiples.  

Radler

I did have success on the first IVF/ICSI transferring one embryo. My clinic has very high success with SET. You might ask your RE whether he/she keeps those statistics and whether they can give you an estimate of the chance of success for your situation in particular. My clinic's high success rate with SET helped us make our decision.

I wish you all the best that your cycle goes quickly and successfully. This is a tough decision under any circumstances and I can imagine it's agonizing for you. I'll be rooting for you!

kittylove

I just wanted to say hello and tell you I think of you often. I wish you the best of luck on your upcoming FET and can't wait to have you back on the board.

jpbride2004

Echloe-

First off, I'm so sorry for your loss.  I can't imagine how hard this decision must be when you've experienced such a devastating loss. 

On our 1st IVF we xferred 2 embies and were very blessed with twins.  When we back for #3 we xferred 1.  We knew it was a risk but the RE felt that because both embies took the first time around, we'd could easily encounter a similar scenario with the FET.  (As much as I love my twins, I don't think I could have 4 babies under 2.. financially it would be crippling.) 

The decision must be incredibly difficult to make, especially when your Dr's have divergent opinions.  I wish you luck with your decision and with the procedure.  Just wanted to give you another success story of xferring 1 emby during a FET.

Nicol

SeptGirl05

Hi Echloe - I am so so sorry for your loss.

I transferred one on my first cycle and succeeded (a 3dt) - my DD is now 9 months old.  We also just did our first FET since we are TTC #2 and transferred a single frozen embie which will hopefully stick.

Good luck!

KnockMeUp

Hi Echloe!

I think of you often!  I'm so happy that you are at the point of doing a FET and can get back over here  

 Can you decide if you want to transfer one or two depending upon the quality of the embryo's once they are thawed?  I have no idea how the timing works but if they thawed one and the quality was just okay, could they thaw another one in time for the transfer?  

GL with the transfer and with whatever you decide to do.  I will be looking for updates on you! 

kristinG

I did a single embryo transfer as well. We actually had only one egg fertilize...thank goodness it was all we needed.

thh

We chose to transfer a single embryo on our first IVF cycle as well b/c my sister had a really, really rough twin pregnancy.   It was successful and we have a beautiful baby boy, and we plan to do a single embryo FET soon as well b/c we would prefer not to have twins AND my water broke really early with my first one (29 weeks). 

 My doctor said that the success rates aren't significantly better for double transfers -- I think it was only a difference of a few percentage points.

may2806

I only had one embryo to put back, and it worked! Good luck!

Magoy

We only had one fertilize and so that was all we had to transfer.  Worked for us!  Good luck with your decision, I know it's a hard one.  

k8enewlywed

Hi! It worked for us! We just transfered one! GL!!!!!