Freeze all IVF Birmingham Women’s Hospital

[lauraloolooo]

Hi all, I had my egg collection last week at Birmingham Women’s Hospital and they collected 28 eggs but due to the high number they have said I can’t have a fresh transfer and they will need to freeze all that fertilise, has anyone else had to freeze all and if so how long will I have to wait until I can have the frozen transfer?

[Kay2705]

You can normally have a FET about two cycles after the collection. So you'll have a cycle once you stop your meds and then some clinic can aim to do a FET the next cycle

[lauraloolooo]

Thank you for your reply, will my first menstrual cycle after my egg collection count as cycle one and then start treatment after my menstrual cycle after that?

[Ginger1982]

I had a freeze all, though I only ended up with one embryo, and my clinic allowed me to use my withdrawal bleed as the cycle to use. I was due to have my transfer 5 weeks after egg collection but embryo didn't survive the thaw.

[itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted]

I had an unexpected freeze all - egg collection was January 29th - had a post collection bleed 5 days later and then got my period 2 weeks after that. I am doing unmedicated natural transfers so I was then able to track ovulation and then transfer 5 days after LH surge so around 9th March - so 5 weeks between collection and transfer.

I am going mild short protocol ivf though which means no drugs to stop ovulation so my cycle came back straight away - most people I know who have done full Ivf have taken several weeks to get their cycle back which drags the whole process out

[lauraloolooo]

@Ginger1982 I’m sorry to hear that every cycle can be so different, our first cycle didn’t work although all looked very positive, was yours going to be a medication FET transfer? I believe mine will be and not sure if I have to take any dreaded injections again or not

[lauraloolooo]

@itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted Were you able to choose to do a non medicated FET or was it recommend to you? I believe my hospital will want me to have a medicated treatment so they take control, were your embryos frozen on day 1 or day 5?

[Ginger1982]

@lauraloolooo yes it was medicated. Still feeling upset by the result, but I have DS who was born through successful ICSI 2 years ago so I know I'm lucky.

[Hopingandpraying23]

Hi .. hoping @lauraloolooo still reads this.. was just hoping to ask how you got on with freezing embryos at day 1.. did they manage to refreeze some at day 5 for later use? I'm also at bham womens hospital. I've always thought they culture them to day 5 before freezing . I'm worried now that I'm going to waste a lot of them as they said they will thaw everything when were ready and culture them at that time and refreeze if anything is suitable. We had 26 eggs

[lauraloolooo]

Hi @Hopingandpraying23, out of of my 28 eggs collected 19 of them fertilised and were frozen in day one, when they came to thawing them only 9 of those survived the thaw which I was disappointed with due to the high number collected and I had 8 collected on my first round and had none to freeze on day 5, but they did well and I had one 5aa embryo transferred on day 5 and had 4 frozen and I’m currently 7 months pregnant 😊 x

[Hopingandpraying23]

Thank you sooo much @lauraloolooo .. waiting for the embryologist to call today to tell me how many of the eggs fertilised. Oh you dont know how much you've put me at ease... I couldn't sleep all night partly because of this and the pain. Worrying if I should tell the embryologist to culture them to day 5 before freezing cause I've read in other post that this is what they do... congrats and hoping we get our little miracle soon too..