IVF at 43 with top quality frozen embryo's

[redvelvet9]

In 2022 I had a fresh round of IVF (after many fresh rounds and failed transfers), finally had a baby at 40 years old. I have 3 embryos, all top quality, on ice from that fresh round and even though I had a tough pregnancy with being constant nauseous and at the time not keen on ever having another, it's on my mind regularly whether I should try for another so my child has a sibling. I have to decide pretty soon as I'm now 43, my child is 3.5yrs old and I'd like them as close in age as possible if I was to have another. I'm petrified of complications, I have severe endometriosis (stage iv) and I'm wondering if it is more down to how healthy the embryo is, or the body?

Mostly luck I think.

As above, luck, but mostly the body.

Do you actually want another child?

A frozen embryo procedure is just the transfer, some progesterone injections, and the admittedly hideous two week wait. You’re not going through the whole cycle process of IVF. You might as well give it a try and see what happens. Already having a beloved child will make it easier to bear.

One of the reasons so many IVF pregnancies are so awful is that you’re already physically and mentally depleted when you become pregnant, and pumped full of crazy hormones that take their toll on your chemistry. If you’re lucky enough to get pregnant again with a frozen embryo, you’ll likely be in a much better place to have an uneventful pregnancy.

Getting and staying pregnant is mostly down to the embryo. It's not mostly down to the body. The biggest factor in the success of IVF is embryo quality, correlated with maternal age (at the time you made the embryos).

Complications are mostly to do with the body, with a bit of luck.

Have you had the embryos PGT-A tested?

I’m not sure they’ve been tested, I think they’ve just been graded and frozen.