After 3.5 years ttc, including 1 full term stillbirth & 2 mmcs, I'm trying to work out whether it's worth bothering with IVF or whether we should throw in the towel.
My dd who was stillborn had no chromosomal abnormalities; mmc1 was trisomy 16, and I'm waiting to find out about most recent mmc. My hormones are all fine. DH has poor morphology.
I have a feeling that one or both of us are genetically not quite as we should be - this is based on nothing really, apart from our repeated losses and an increasing sense of despair. If it turns out we are hopelessly mutated then we will stop trying.
We've booked an appointment to have our karyotypes tested, but I'm not sure what I'll find out & whether it will be helpful.
My worries are: what if there is something a bit odd but not disastrous, like balanced translocations, microdeletions, etc, that could derail future pregnancies but equally might not, or that weakly correlate to a range of poorly understood health & developmental disorders? How would we decide what to do based on that?
I suppose I'm wondering if anyone else had has this done, whether they found anything useful out, and whether they had any idea how to act on their findings.
If you found out you were not chromosomally typical, was that a hurtful discovery?
Any experiences? I'm trying to find a balance between my desire for information & my sanity.