Late ovulation and egg quality?

UncleBen

Anyone know anything about this?  Seems I ovulate later than the norm.  TIA. 

jeffrae

No, but someone posted here a while ago that they had read that it makes your egg quality go down.  Based on my BFP on my last cycle I ovulate late too -- just started charting after m/c.  My OB told me to come in for bloodwork 7 days after I get a positive OPK to check out my progesterine (sp?).  Perhaps you could get that done?

jeffrae

okay, don't do what I just did and google it.  All of the information out there says bad things....I am just going to listen to my OB and not the gibberish in cyberland. 

CMM05

There is research to suggest that late ovulation causes poor egg quality....BUT....there are also many women who ovulate late, get PG and go on to have a healthy baby.

I have PCOS and have always ovulated late. The only time I have carried a baby to term was when we used treatments that helped me ovulate at a "normal" time. My RE will not 100% say that the other two times that I got PG on own (both ended in m/c.....) were caused b/c of late ovulation/poor egg quality. BUT......when we do treatments he is always telling me that our goal is to get me to ovulate earlier and to have good egg quality. So, to me, that is saying that there is a connection. Again, I think doctors are careful about this issue b/c it can go both ways.

How late are you ovulating?? I know some friends who ovulated on like CD20 and have had healthy PG.......but if you are ovulating past that, there could be a problem.

I, too, would suggest getting a prog. test done and also talk to your OB about it......

UncleBen

Thanks for the advice ladies.  I am ovulating around day 18, it seems.  I have a fairly regular, 28 day cycle. 

jam1111

Day 18 is good and is still 'normal'.  Here's the info that I found...hence one of the reasons why I'm on Clomid (due to 50+ day cycles).  I got pg on CD35, but then miscarried.  Who knows if that is the reason wy

 

Member:> When is ovulation considered late?

Dr. Amos: Most doctors consider ovulation 'late' when it happens after CD 21. Many women do get pregnant with late ovulations, but chances of getting pregnant are decreased. For one, the egg is not as good when you ovulate later in the cycle. A 'not good' egg is less likely to be fertilized and become an embryo. In addition, the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, is where the fertilized egg, the blastocyst, has to attach and implant. If the endometrium is too old, it is less likely to provide sufficient nutrition for the blastocyst, so implantation is decreased. And finally, with 'late ovulation,' you ovulate less often than with earlier ovulation.