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The answer for Lin, Chi-ling's dream. Beyonds eggs and IVF 3.0 plus.


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.
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1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the information, now low sperm count can not be reason of infertility, as its treatment is now easily available at Best IVF Centre in Bathinda

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