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Ladies with egg quality issues...
Do you worry about downs syndrome or other abnormalities at all? I feel like I'm trying so, so hard to have a child with my own eggs....not really thinking about anything else other than getting pg. I realize there's always a chance of something going wrong, and the doc can't necessarily tell you if your eggs will produce a downs baby but...I've been concerned about it lately. The RE who did my ER said from looking at the pictures of our embies, the real issue is egg quality.....and that makes me worry.
TTC since May 2009 - DOR (ovarian cancer)
DE w RBA December 2011 - transferred one embryo 12/14 - three frosties
Beta #1 - 129 (12/22)
Beta #2 - ? (12/26)
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Re: Ladies with egg quality issues...
All the time. I've cried many a night over this. I wonder if the reason that I haven't had a baby was because God in his infinite wisdom knows that there is greater heartache if we would have a baby. I recall while I was stimming with my first ivf that the song Unanswered Prayers kept playing through my head. Sometime between the first ivf and 2nd I came to the conclusion that there is tons of women who struggled with IF and now have healthy babies. Why should I be any different? Honestly, I know it could still happen to us, but I no longer dwell on it.
Dx MFI, AMA, Endo, AMH .16
Lap 10/09 Removed endometrioma, stage IV endo and adhesions
Lap 2/10 Endometrioma cysts & adhesions returned.
Ivf #1 4/10 Antagonist, ET Cancelled.
IVF #2 2/11 A/ACP+E2V C/P
IVF #3 6/11 Letrozole/Antagonist BFN
IVF #4 11/11 Low stim Antagonist BFN
Lap 3/12 Lap & Selective HSG
Many cycles of Letrozole and LP HCG w/TI and LDN
IVF #5 8/12 Low stim BFN
IUI #1 10/12 BFN br> S&PAIFW
Absolutely.
My miscarriage history makes my RE dismiss these fears - a little too quickly, I think - with a "Your body will do what it's been doing if something is wrong," but yes. The likelihood of non-terminal chromosomal abnormalities if I ever have a pregnancy that makes it any farther scares the bejesus out of me.
I am definitely afraid of that since I know from my last IVF cycle that we have issues with chromosomally abnormal embryos. We did CGH testing and out of 10 embryos tested, only 2 came back normal, which is why my RE thinks that I have egg quality issues, since all CD 3 bloodwork comes back fine, etc.
The only way you would know for sure that embryos are chromosomally abnormal is to test them using CGH, since they can't just look at an embryo and say it it is chromosomally abnormal. Good Luck with everything!
After 1 IUI, 3 IVF's with CGH/CCS testing, 10 early miscarriages, and lots of tears and frustration, we are moving on to Domestic Infant Adoption! We are so excited to see what the future holds.
Once I got my BFP, I was like what have I done? Maybe if I would have used DE, I wouldn't have such a huge concern, but no, I pushed for one more cycle with my own eggs.
And it took 3 ERs and 15 eggs retrieved to get one sticky baby - so all I could think about was how crappy my eggs are. And then add my age - I was 38 years old.
So, I stressed up until the NT scan, but felt tons of relief after it. I had fears of having a special needs child as an older parent and my child out living DH and me. The results aren't 100% conclusive, but we don't have any markers so I started celebrating my pregnancy. IF really plays havoc on us ladies.
And I make such few eggs with each IVF cycle that I didn't feel like we could afford to do PGD/CGH and risk losing any eggs.
I don't know if my rambling helps any, but I guess my point is I totally relate tp your concerns.