Time off

Well the last 4 months have been a crazy whirlwind of a time.  We have had about as much as we can process and take for now.  Thankfully, we can move at our own pace.

We will be taking roughly six months off of fertility treatments and IVF.  We need time to recover emotionally and financially from the last 3 rounds of FET.  We hope to in this time center ourselves again and find the positivity to go forward.  I hope to find my complete strength and faith in God during this time.  I struggle with my faith during these hard times. More on that later...

In the mean time, we will discuss with Dr. Maud her suggestions with doing some testing on our remaining embryos.  We have 6 remaining embryos in Omaha and ideally would like 1-2 more children.  With transferring 2 embryos at a time that would mean 3 more transfers before needing a fresh IVF cycle again. 

http://blog.drmalpani.com/2014/08/pgs-preimplantation-genetic-screening.html

The genetic testing that we are looking into doing is call PGS (Pre-Implantation Genetic Screening), there is really wonderful information and a video that explains the amazing process that they go through to test our embryos.  This screening would let us know if our remaining embryos are genetically normal and would therefore yield a higher success rate for pregnancy and hopefully diminish our chances of miscarriage or no implantation. 

Preimplantation Genetic Screening Preimplanation Genetic Screening

Unfortunately, the embryo's do run risks by being thawed-frozen, then re-thawed when we use them for a transfer.  However, we will have to roll the dice somewhere... This whole process is such a risk and gamble, we just pray we are making the right choices.

Typically, this screening would be done on fresh embryos from a fresh IVF cycle, and not ones that have already been frozen, however our clinic didn't do this screening back when we did our fresh IVF cycle over 3 years ago.

My HCG lab came back today as 20. So it has gone down quite a bit since our D&C which is good.  For now we will continue to decide what we will want to do with screening for our embryos and possibly do that over the next 2-3 months.  Hopefully good news from them. 

Cost for PGS screening for our 6 embryo's: $1,900