I posted over the weekend about using our previous donor, etc. I am going to assume at this point that she is not on board with donating again, unless we hear otherwise. I am still holding out some hope!!!
This aside, what clinic are you using?
Do they have an in house donor pool?
If so, are the eggs frozen or fresh?
Were you successful on the first try?
How much was your cycle if you used fresh eggs?
If frozen how much?
Do you know the clinics success rates?
The clinic we used prior was local to us and we have since moved, which makes this really hard to go back. They also did not have an in house pool, so the total in the end (for just our successful cycle) was $50,000 once you include medications, donor fees, agency fee, ivf fees, icsi, etc. Ugh, I wish this was easier!!!
Thanks ladies
Re: Which fertility center are you using?
This aside, what clinic are you using? We are at FCI in Chicago. The best success rates in our area are up at Advanced Fertility in Gurnee. Insurance says we have to use FCI, so we do.
Do they have an in house donor pool? FCI has an in house donor pool, but it's very small, 20-30 donors.
If so, are the eggs frozen or fresh? We are using fresh, we obtained our donor from Center for Egg Options Agency.
Were you successful on the first try? Cycling in late March, hope that in April I can answer this question in the affirmative.
How much was your cycle if you used fresh eggs? Insurance pays for our cycle, but donor through agency was $12,500
If frozen how much? N/A
Do you know the clinics success rates?
This aside, what clinic are you using?
Institute for Reproductive Health (OH)
Do they have an in house donor pool?
Yes, it's what we used.
If so, are the eggs frozen or fresh?
fresh
Were you successful on the first try?
just had our transfer today....I really really hope so!!
How much was your cycle if you used fresh eggs?
we opted for the shared risk program which ran about $24,000 which includes 3 fresh/3 frozen tries (this price only pays for actual ivf. NOT donor fees/screening, meds, storage....or anything extra)
If frozen how much?
Do you know the clinics success rates?
they told us 60-65% success rate.
Good luck with your decisions!! I know they aren't easy ones to make!
DD conceived with no issues, but born at 33 weeks due to PPROM
loss #1-06/2010 loss #2-2/2011 loss #3-5/2011
07/2011 dx with a Balanced Translocation
9/2011-decided on domestic infant adoption 10/2011-signed with an agency and getting ready for homestudy
12-2012-after being with our agency over a year and only shown to EM once we decided to talk with RE about DEIVF. Thru a crazy sequence of events we decided to go for it and we picked a donor MUCH quicker than anticipated
1/13/2013-started lupron with anticipated transfer in mid Feb.
ER 2/15 resulted in 15 eggs/10M/6F with ICSI.
2/18 transferred 1-8cell and 1-9cell embie. Snuggle in little embies.
positive on HPT 6dp3dt. Could this really be IT?!?! Beta 14dp3dt=2440. U/S scheduled for 3/20.
Baby boy Henry born 2015.
Expecting our capstone baby (boy) early March 2018.
Hi!
This aside, what clinic are you using?
We used Seattle Reproductive Medicine in Seattle.
Do they have an in house donor pool?
Yes, and they also use MyEggBank.com - so some of their donors you can get frozen or fresh.
If so, are the eggs frozen or fresh?
You can do either, but not all fresh donors are available frozen.
Were you successful on the first try?
Yes, I am 12w4d along
How much was your cycle if you used fresh eggs?
I'm not sure the total cost - all of my medical parts were covered by insurance, and some of the donor portion was covered via my partner's insurance. I believe the total for fresh was $28K - and frozen was more like $18K.
If frozen how much?
It was considerably less.
Do you know the clinics success rates?
SART does - I know my clinic has ~70% for fresh DE cycles. Their FET % is not great, lik 30% - and Petra's clinic above has a way better FET rate (to the point if we want a second I may switch for the FET).
We went with a fresh, non-shared cycle (my donor had a successful shared cycle jus before ours, both got pregnant). We wanted some frosties in case it didn't work. We got 19r, 14mature, 11 fert, and ultimately 4 viable embies - we transferred 1 and froze 3.
Me (43) and J (45) - same sex couple. And we don't feel 40+!
June'12 - First RE Visit
Sept. '12 - Tubes removed
Dec. '12 - Donor Egg/Donor Sperm IVF Cycle - 4 good embies!
Dec. '12 - Fresh transfer, BFP! EDD 8/29/13
Mar. '13 - Missed m/c at 16w1d, baby boy stopped growing at 15w4d
Loss due to umbilical cord clot...baby was perfect.
Jul '13 - FET#1 - c/p
Sept. '13 - FET#2 - BFN
Dec.' 2, 2013 - FET#3 with our last chance embie - BFP!!!
Dec' 26, 2013 - hb!!
EDD 8/20/14 with a baby girl!
Little S was born on 8/21/14 - 8lb, 14 oz and 20 inches long.
We live in Seattle and used SRM for our donor egg IVF cycle
I am with PNWF as well, so everything that Petra said.
I only looked at clinics in the Seattle area. I was confident in our choice and had a really positive experience with them.
We chose frozen as well, which resulted in 3 high quality 5/6 day blasts frozen. We thawed 2 and transferred 2. We have the 3rd waiting if we need it. I'm 4dp5dt. I'll know if it's successful on the 25th.
Good Luck
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Breast Cancer diagnosis 12/01/2010 - Survivor and Cancer free as of 03/22/2011
BFP#1 04/12/2011 - fetal demise - MC 05/28/2011
BFP#2 10/14/2011 - fetal demise - MC 12/13/2011
BFP#3 05/30/2012 - fetal demise - MC 07/23/2012
IVF#1 02/14/2013 - 2 Beautiful Blasts transferred
BFP#4 02/25/2013 - BFP - MC and ectopic 03/06/2013
IFV#2 07/02/2013 -BFP#5 - 07/07/2013
1st Beta 07/11/2013 - 483 (9dp5dt) - 2nd Beta 07/13/2013 1006 (11dp5dt)
1st U/S 07/31/2013 - TWINS! "The Minions"
IVF#3 BFP#6 09/01/2015 6dp5dt
1st Beta 09/05/2015 - 105 - 2nd Beta 09/08/2015 335
1st U/S 09/22/2015 - .......
1. I used San,Diego.Fertility.Center.
2. I loved their in house pool.
3. Fresh
4. Yes, twins due any day now.
5. We paid more because we wanted the guarantee package. We paid $32k in all including the donor fee (proven 3rd time), and guarantee.
6. 85% success rate
Petra - good points. My insurance would cover fresh but not frozen eggs (made no sense) so since we were doing fresh, we went with SRM, and well, I was already far down the path, blah blah. And, well, I got pregnant first try - so I guess it was ok. I had started at PNW and actually had a pretty bad experience, it was probably just one person in a bad moment, but it did not make me want to go back there.
However, if the time comes that we do decide to slam out another one, I already was thinking of moving my embies to PNWF for the FET. I don't know what is up with SRM on that front, but the points you made above are very valid.
Of course, I figure I ought to get through this pregnancy first.
Me (43) and J (45) - same sex couple. And we don't feel 40+!
June'12 - First RE Visit
Sept. '12 - Tubes removed
Dec. '12 - Donor Egg/Donor Sperm IVF Cycle - 4 good embies!
Dec. '12 - Fresh transfer, BFP! EDD 8/29/13
Mar. '13 - Missed m/c at 16w1d, baby boy stopped growing at 15w4d
Loss due to umbilical cord clot...baby was perfect.
Jul '13 - FET#1 - c/p
Sept. '13 - FET#2 - BFN
Dec.' 2, 2013 - FET#3 with our last chance embie - BFP!!!
Dec' 26, 2013 - hb!!
EDD 8/20/14 with a baby girl!
Little S was born on 8/21/14 - 8lb, 14 oz and 20 inches long.
We live in Seattle and used SRM for our donor egg IVF cycle
Thank you all for the answers, I really appreciate it. I am going to investigate the mentioned clinics and see which fits our situation better. I will be giving our clinic we used with DD #2 a call and see if they will contact our donor before we move on to another donor.
I will keep you all posted! As for those waiting results, I wish you all the best and pray for great news for you all.