[Consultant Sharing] Sperm finally meet Egg with ICSI
12/29/2019 05:44:00 PM
I have been with the Stork for couple months , but I don’t have an insight into the knowledge
about infertility. In addition, “Joy is a medicine! The happiest thing for
Stork is seeing patients are all pregnant.” is a slogan for our Tuesday
meeting. Therefore, the purpose of our morning meeting is discussing the
unexpected/ unsuccessful case and then finding the reasons and creating
improvement plans to provide the best service for our patients.
At one meeting, our doctor and colleagues shared
the story of your good news and your treatment. It was impressive and I would
like to know more about your case. Thus, I found your treatment and experience
was not easy/ was quite tough before you came to Stork. Based on the case, You
have tried 4 times IUI, 4 times egg retrieval and 3 times transferred. Actually,
it was pretty good; There were around 10 eggs for every egg retrieval. However,
all the embryo couldn't grow until day 5, So the doctor only could transfer day 3
embryo which were not fully developed. Nevertheless, the outcome didn't meet
your expectations. You are 37 years old now and decided to come to Taiwan for
giving yourself another chance to complete your dream.
As your former experience of IVF, after meeting
with Doctor and finishing all required physical check, You had to bring all the injection and
medicine back for your first step of the treatment. The treatment went well. Next
month, you came back to Stork for your egg retrieval. Total 32 eggs were
retrieved and 23 of them were mature. According to your previous experience, we
noticed that your egg probably had obstacles of insemination. So our laboratory
have decided to do "ICSI"
For normal insemination, our laboratory will
create a model of simulating internal fertilization in female body, and then
put sperm around the egg. After sperm’s internal competition, there's
only one sperm will be selected for
fertilization. However, the obstacles of insemination as your case, the
fertilization was not successful which was like when you are ready for a race, but
you were eliminated at the beginning. Fortunately, a Belgian invented
"ICSI" in 1992. It increased the rate of insemination and the pregnancy.
Moreover, it help thousands of couples who
suffered from infertility.
With great care from embryo culture technicians,
we observed there were total 20 healthy embryo. Finally, among these embryo, 14
of them turned into blastocysts. This outcome was great and We were so happy
for you. After one month rest, you are ready for next step of treatment, transferring. After that, You
selected two Day 5 blastocysts, 4AA and 4BA. After 2 weeks, the rate of your
HCG showed 3926. You met your expectation, and then 3 weeks later, we detected 2
heartbeat when you were back for physical check. You spent less than half year,
and finally gained satisfied result. We wish you could come back and bring your
twin babies on Stork’s Annal Party.
At the end, I have to say your case encouraged
me and I learned a lot from it as well; Life is not always like they way we
want it to be, but everything will be alright. I learned Keep your faith, keep
moving, and receiving strength from your mate. The good result will come and All
the obstacles won't stop you anymore