Over 40 ttc - summer baby dust for me!

Critter how exciting! Try and post the pic if you can! And Matt I think you're within range......
feel excited for the tww and it's not even me!!!
Fertile week starts Friday according to the app for me....

Thanks CRITTERTAMER - long two weeks ahead for both of us! I think I ovulate pretty quickly after positive opk - here’s hoping!

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@Mattsmamma - if you ovulate soon after the +OPK then you should still have a decent chance of sperms waiting for the egg - especially if you had plenty of EWCM. If you ovulate a bit later then it would be less chance but still possible. I always seem to O within 12 hours of +OPK but I know some people are nearer 36 - 48 hours.

@Alibaba2 - yep, apparently at this point my chance of a successful outcome is now up to 37% - it’s not amazing but definitely better than what it would have been trying naturally!

Yes they grade the embryos - the part that becomes the foetus is graded A, B or C, and the part that becomes the placenta is graded in the same way. Mine were AB and AA/B (second one still developing so could have gone either AA or AB) apparently that’s great for 40+ eggs 😊

CRITTER - how exciting! Fingers well and truly crossed for you!

So ladies - what are the chances of a BFP when you dtd 2 days before positive opk? Feeling deflated as dh had to work away again today and of course today’s the day I got the smiley face on the opk. Monday
Was only opportunity for dtd - feeling fed up xx

Great news Critter! You have a decent chance!

Did they grade the embies? Just interested because my friend had ivf recently and I didn’t know what the grades meant...

To explain better, the reason there is no refund is because by opting for the 3 cycle package you get a huge discount on the price per cycle - in effect the third cycle is free. Realistically at age 40 - 42 the chance of success per round is only 15 to 20% so it kinda makes sense to go with the multi package as it’s very likely we will need more than 1 cycle.

@Cleozeta - my 3 cycle package was £6300. On top of that there was £550 before starting for the initial tests and consultations they make you do (AMH, HSG, etc), and all drugs are extra. The drugs depend on your individual prescription but mine were £1400 for this cycle - as it happened if have £330 worth left over as I only needed to stim for 8 days instead of the normal 11 - 12 because my ovaries responded very well. At least I might save that off the drug bill for the next cycle I guess.

There is no refund if cycle 1 works, however you don’t have to pay for the drugs for the other two cycles so would save almost £3k there. Plus if this cycle ends in a MC the other two cycles can still b3 used.

I'd love to see the pic!
Fingers crossed this works for you!

Just out of curiousity, how much did you pay for the 3 cycle package? And if it works first time will you get you money back for the unused rounds?

Oh how exciting! Yes post the pic later :) xx

Amazing news Critter

Thank you all so much for your good wishes - it means a lot when there aren’t many people you can share this journey with. ET is all done - two lovely embies on board 😊 of my 6 fertilised eggs only 1 didn’t develop. Two were great quality 5 day blastos (just been transferred), two others were medium quality 5 day blastos -apparently these can still improve by tomorrow), and one other was a little slower than the others and is just forming a blasto today so it may or may not turn out to be good quality tomorrow. They’ll call me tomorrow to let me know what will be frozen. I don’t really mind as we paid for a 3 cycle package anyway so if they’re not great quality would be better just to move onto a second cycle and start fresh. I’m very happy with the two transferred though 😊 now begins the TWW 😔

They let me take a really nice photo of the embies before they went in - would post it for you to see but I can’t figure out how to get it off my android phone onto my iPad LOL. I’m so crap with technology! If you guys are interested I’ll get DH to help later and post it for you - it’s very cool 😊

Good luck Critter! xxx

Aw best of luck Critter. Keeping everything crossed for you x

Thinking of you Critter. Hope those embryos are snuggling in around about now

Good luck, Critter. Thinking of you.

@Chatbash72 - they advise at the time what they think is best in terms of numbers to transfer/freeze. It’s based on the number and quality of surviving embryos. My preference would be to transfer 2 if there are 2 of good enough quality. If there are any remaining of decent quality they will freeze them yes. At 40+ we are allowed by law to have 3 transferred, but the clinic really strongly advises against that.

CritterTamer how many are you having implanted? Will you freeze the remaining? ( is that what happens?? I'm sorry I don't know..)

@Littlemimosa - yes tomorrow at 1.30 😊

Critter - that all sounds so promising. Sorry if you d already said this but is transfer tomorrow? Do you have a time slot?

Thanks for the reply little, the spotting has stopped and I feel better than I did last night. Today I had a faint OPK so looking on track to start fertile time at the weekend...

Critter how exciting!!!

Good luck critter!! Everything crossed for you.

Mimosa, I would be gutted to not have another but I am deeply grateful for the 2 beautiful healthy children I do have, so it wouldn't be the end of the world, but I would just love that one more go. I feel more hopeful after the bfp, even though it didn't work out, I don't feel past it like I did before. Will just keep trying and see what happens. I won't be bothering with any more tests as I dont think it makes much difference to anything other than stress levels (rising in my case!)

Good luck Critter. That sounds very promising for you

@Littlemimosa - that’s fair enough - I can see how it would definitely be more difficult if you have DC already to work it around and it is a disruption to work. I was at the point where I hated my job and the huge stress it was putting me under (affecting both my mental health and a TTC) so was more than happy to make drastic changes to my work life to accommodate the IVF.

All embies were developing ok at day 3 and they told me they would call immediately if there were any issues after this so at least some of them have made it (almost!) to 5 day blasto stage - I don’t know how many though will find out tomorrow. I could call them and ask but scared to tbh -feels like tempting fate LOL. As long as 2 make it I will be very happy tomorrow 😊