ARGC says its success rate is 84%!!!

[Bagofholly]

argc.co.uk/standard.pdf

That's incredible! I remember you had great success there (I am another twin mum via IVF but I was at Guys)...

I did! I had two cycles with immunes, steroids, the whole shebang and got a singleton and twins! BOGOF, as it were!

It gets on my wick that other clinics aren't mandated to replicate his methods. St. Mary's, Manchester, was at one point reporting a success rate per cycle of 8% which is nothing short of disgraceful.

ARGC is pricey but as they said to me, the most expensive cycle is one that doesn't work.
Hope someone else reads this article and gets a nice snuggly baby to take home as a result. and calls it Holly

And congrats on your twins of course! They're a whole crazy world, no?!

They are the best thing(s) that ever happened to me. We were down to have IVF at Kings which for my age at the time (38) had a success rate of 12% - socking. Also had waiting list of between two to four years, by which point I probably wouldn't have been eligible nor had any functioning eggs.

I count myself very lucky I was able to exercise choice and go elsewhere, privately.

Congrats on your brood too - I bet at one point in your life you couldn't have conceived (haha) of having three wonderful children.

That's right - I couldn't imagine it, sometimes. Now, as I watch one of my twins carefully emptying the pan drawer AGAIN I think about how I argued for them to put back 3 blasts instead of two! Eeeek!

And if we'd gone down the NHS route, by the time I'd been treated I'd also have been 38, and they don't treat immunes so mine would have failed anyway. As you say, so glad to have been able - and had the knowledge and ability - to go elsewhere.

(I used to be londonlottie by the way...)

And I remember how I was told by the consultant embryologist in a very grave voice that we really ought to put both embryos back in (the only ones we had left) because neither of them were of a particularly high 'grade' and they thought the chance of both implanting really very slim.

Heyyy! I remember you! So so glad it worked out!