Savings insurance for Fertility, Oocyte Cryopreservation leads to a bright future for having children.
9/30/2019 03:46:00 AM
Savings insurance for Fertility, Oocyte Cryopreservation leads to a bright future for having children.
After being single for several years, I still hadn't meet my Mr. right. Therefore, I came back to Taiwan to do oocyte
cryopreservation without hesitation. When I was 37, I finally get married.
However, pregnancy tests were always negative. After two times of failure in
IVF. I finally get a positive when I am 40. Although people always say don't wash your dirty linen in public. I still
want to share my experience to encourage some young ladies to make decision
wisely.
Written by client
I am 40 years old this year, and have a
happy marriage life. What's more I am very lucky to have a pair of twin boys.
In other's eyes, it's just an ordinary life. However, it was not easy for us to
reach to this point.
When I was younger and after being
single for several years, I still hadn't meet my Mr. right. Therefore, I came
back to Taiwan to do oocyte cryopreservation without hesitation. When I was 37,
I finally get married. However, pregnancy tests were always negative. After two
times of failure in IVF. I finally get a positive when I am 40. Although people
always say don't wash your dirty linen in public.
I still want to share my experience to encourage some young ladies to make decision
wisely. In case when you want to become a mother, but find out that you already
pass the fertility golden age. Or settle down in a rush with someone you don't
love just because of biological clock.
When I was in my early 30s, I just completed
my Master of Business Administration degree. And was very successful in my
career. I traveled a lot and enjoyed working and living in different countries.
When you're devoted to your work and traveling all the time, it makes it even
more harder to find a right guy for me to built a family with. Moreover, I
wanted to start my own business. Therefore, egg cryopreservation is the only
way to get rid of all those pressure from " biological clock " and to
let me persuade my dream with all my heart.
That's why I flied back to Taiwan when I
was 33 years old. I got 23 mature oocytes that is healthy and can be preserved
after only one oocyte pick up. Back then, there were just few clinic that can provide
this service. Even when I went to see some Obstetrics and Gynecology doctors to
treat my
ascites because of retrieved too much eggs. They asked me "Why would
you do this without having a husband?" in disbelief. And my family couldn't
understand why either! But for me, doing egg freezing when you were young is
like buying a savings insurance for fertility, which give me more autonomy of
my life. I didn't need to be anxious because of I hadn't met someone right or
giving birth to babies, which might make me lose myself.
After years of devoting to works, I gained a lot of
experience and growth. The ambitious for career had already been washed away. I
moved from Shanghai to San Francisco. I know who I am and what kind of life I
want which make me feel more confident and attractive. I dated for several times
and finally met the right guy, which become my husband today.
We had a romantic wedding beside Portovenere, Italy, and
moved to Milan. We had a happy marriage, but no good news. Therefore, I decided
to use my fertility insurance. We thawed all 23 oocytes and fertilized them
with sperm. The culturing result was good. 15 blastocysts that can be freeze.
And we chose to do Preimplantaion genetic screening(PGS).
Wow! There were a lot of chance to get pregnant weren't
there? But we soon found out that it's not that easy. Successful rate of
implant frozen blastocyst is not 100%. We underwent two failure within three
years. Every failure was a punch to our life. I can't remember how many tears
have flowed and how many time I used to reset my mind. I felt bad when every time
someone asked "Are you pregnant?", " Your baby must be beautiful!",
"What are you waiting for? Get a baby as soon as possible"!
However still felt lucky compared to the mother's of my
age who is trying to have a baby. Because I already preserved my eggs when I
was young. Those couples were also facing infertility problems. But without egg
freezing, they need to undergo a lot of egg retrieval procedure. And only can
get 2-3 eggs per time. Or even none!
At the age of 40, I decided to adjust my life style and
daily life routine. Trying all methods that can help me evaluate my health to
the best condition. And then I came back to Taiwan for my last try. Maybe
because of my relaxed mood or because of the fate, I got pregnant and what's
more it's twins!
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WhatsApp：The answer for Lin, Chi-ling's dream. Beyonds eggs and IVF 3.0 plus.
9/29/2019 11:13:00 PM
Famous model Lin, Chi-ling got married with
J-pop dancer Akira! Most people send their blessings to these new wed couple.
However, at the age of 44, public keep questioning her chances of
pregnancy.
As the Taiwanese saying goes, it’s very
difficult for an old lady to conceive. A 44-year old woman is not considered as
an old lady of course. After all, she still looks amazingly beautiful and is
still in the middle age of her life. However, the live birth rate of women at
her age is only 5%. How much effort should she suffer in order to bring a baby
home?
Luckily, she did the precaution with “Beyond
Eggs” 5 years ago wisely, which provided her great chance of success and
reachable happiness. Women usually clearly imagine the picture of happiness on
her own, although it’s not possible to know when can they meet the right one.
The ooctyes frozen 5 years ago are now extremely valuable. The successful rate
of thawing the ooctyes and doing the IVF is about 60-80%. The problem is “how
can she using these precious oocytes to create the greatest value”?
Rewind to the year when she was 39 years old.
If she didn’t do the wise decision, she may now only have a single solution,
oocyte from the donor, left for bringing a baby back home. Take lady Y, an
actress also, as an example, she endeavored to do the oocytes retrievals for 23
times in a year because she refused to utilize the eggs from a donor.
The reason why she didn’t freeze her oocytes
when she was younger is that she thought she will never get married after 40
years old.
What is the unseen secret behind the
successful story of Lady Y?
Since her implantation window is different
from other women (12 hours later), I believe her story wouldn’t be in this
happy ending without the “IVF 3.0+”. Different from
the traditional IVF, IVF 3.0+, namely PP-IVF,
is designed according to the ovarian reserve (AMH), preimplantation genetic
screening and endometrial receptivity analysis. Established the IVF 3.0+ since 2016, the success rate of transferring in a
normal blastocyst is as high as 80%.
The condition of Lin, Chi-ling
is much better than lady Y. Assuming she is the client of Stork Fertility
Center, except for thawing and fertilizing her oocytes, I will let her know the
must-know second choice for women over 43 years old and ask, “Would you be able
to accept oocytes from a donor?” If the answer is No, I will definitely ask her
further, “It will cost enormous time and money to reach the goal, do you think
you have the strength and the determination to do this?” If her answer is,
“Yes! Money is not a concern for me. I certainly want to try.” Then, I will
remind her in the end that a cut-off point should be set at about half to a
year. Lady Y prolong her journey for a year and half.
What if the “Beyond Eggs” of Chi-ling are all
running out? IVF 3.0+ is definitely her first
choice. We will take the strategy of “Blastocysts Collection”, which means we
will fertilize all the oocytes after extraction. After at least 5 days of
culture, the blastocysts graded above BB would undergo the PGS. Since the PGS
might slightly affect the successful rate of transfer, those blastocysts graded
below BB would be frozen directly. According to our statistic, every 3-4 oocytes
could become 1 blastocyst at her age. About 7 blastocysts would include 1 PGS
normal blastocyst. In sum, to acquire a PGS normal blastocyst, it would take
about 21-28 oocytes in advance. However, to bring back 1 baby, we recommend couples
to collet 1-2 PGS normal blastocysts, 3-4 PGS normal blastocysts for 2 babies,
etc. I heard that she desires to have a pair of boy and girl twins, which is
possible but not absolute promising. As for how long would it take, this
depends on her AMH level. In average, AMH is usually lower than 0.8 for women
at her age, which imply that she might be able to get 0-2 oocytes at each
cycle. Luckily, we have the strategy of “second-time retrieval” in our center. Presume
that she can get 3-4 oocytes per cycle, she might be able to get 1-2 PGS normal
blastocysts about half a year. To add up the successful rate, she must do the ERA
before the embryo transfer. This act will increase the successful rate for
about 10-20%.
Can one design her own happiness?
What kind of life style do you want? Although Chi-ling made a good decision
when she was 39 years old, the number of her oocytes and the age of frozen are
still a concern.
The good behavior of a happiness
life is to “see the destination before starting running”. By this mean, you can
realize how far it is? In which direction? What are the obstacles in the
journey? How could we be well preparing in advance?
At the era of artificial reproductive
technology, human can design their future plan regardless of time. For those
who are still searching for the right one, freezing your “beyond eggs” now can
allow you bravely chasing your dream. Overall, if a woman can freeze 11 oocytes
under age of 35, about 90 percent of chance she can bring a healthy baby home
in the future. This is the pledge given by us, Stork 11.