ERA program (ERA procedures)
3/22/2017 09:04:00 PM
One step to start a family--
When to eat progesterone, transfer...and more!
IGENOMIX, a leading team of reproductive genetics in Spain, has developed ERA to analyze the gene expression of endometrial tissue. This method helps us determine if the endometrium presents the ideal condition for implantation of embryo (WOI, window of implantation), and thus pregnancy rate would be improved.
To know more about ERA: http://taiwanivfsfc.blogspot.tw/2017/02/endometrial-receptivity-array-era.html
Follow your dreams, they know ways.
3/17/2017 07:57:00 PM
Using the donated eggs or struggling with my declined ovaries made me confused on this journey.
I slowed down, and heard the voice in my heart,
"What do you really want in the very beginning?"
"Having a child, my Lord."
"Just follow your dreams, they know the way."
In the summer of 2015, I got an email overseas.
This mail was from Hong Kong, and also the first connection between she and me. She was my first "pen-pal" at the Stork Fertility Center, but not the first overseas friend here.
Our dean always said that there were four stations during the journey of having babies. Each person gets on the different trains in different times, at different places. The speed, the duration, and the starting/ending time are different as well. Ideally, this journey would be better at the age under 35 years. The second one was at the age between 35 and 37 years. Then it was at the age between 38 and 40 years. The last train was at the age over 40 years. On the last train, the cost was high and the duration was pretty long, but the terminal became uncertain.
When I received her mail, she was on the last train:
[I have undergone the IVF several times, and the harvested oocytes were very few. In the last one program, I only retrieved one oocyte while the ultrasound monitor showed that there could be four follicles. The only one had poor morphology and possible poor quality. My fertility specialist recommended me to take the donation program, since the ovarian function seemed significantly declined. I was very disappointed and confused. My mother expected grand children so much, and she was quite old. I don't know how I can do now.
I sat in front of the laptop, and googled for the donated eggs. I tried to slow down my thoughts, and heard a voice from heart,
"What do you really want in the very beginning?"
"Having a child, my Lord."
"Just follow your dreams, they know the way."
One night, I discussed the donation program with my husband, and achieved a consensus. We decided to visit your fertility center for the donation program.]
She mentioned the limited ability of Mandarin, and would like to prepare all the required documents before coming to Taiwan. I replied her questions step by step, and arranged the related body exams. Thanks to the developed SOP for overseas customers at Stork Fertility Center, she completed all the prerequisite preparation soon.
She chose the fresh donated-egg set, which the donor undergoes the stimulation and retrieval operation, and then the eggs are fertilized immediately rather than being cryopreserved. When I reported the outcomes of oocyte pick-up, she said, "how about the recovery? Is the process bad to her body?" She knew that the process could be very uncomfortable to some females, since she already underwent the IVF so many times.
Fortunately, everything went well. There were 16 available eggs, and 9 good blastocysts cryopreserved. In the following year, she underwent the first cryotransfer with a Day 5 embryo graded 4AB. Not too surprisingly, I received her good news from Hong Kong, and the precious video of fetal heartbeat. We both saw the primary photos of the baby in front of the computers.
This year, the healthy baby was delivered, and the mother recovered very well. She has promised us to bring the baby back for celebration.
2017, is a brand new beginning for her family.
Endometrial Receptivity Array (ERA)
2/20/2017 11:39:00 PM
Have you ever heard the phrase of personalized precision IVF?
Nowadays, the individualized medicine is more prevalent.
With the improvements in ART,
some patients still suffer by repeated implantation failure.
Why?
It's time to think about "personalized embryo transfer (pET)."
Embryo implantation is a highly complex process incorporating with a healthy embryo, a receptive endometrium, and a molecularly communicative dialogue in between. Until 2016, Stork Fertility Center has comprehensive applied individualized COS, IMSI/ICSI, blastocyst culture, PGS/PGD, donor gametes, and frozen embryo transfer for the cases with specific indications. Moreover, all patients would be requested to take the hysteroscopy, hysterosalpingograrphy, and cervical bacteria culture before entering the transfer cycle. However, still some patients failed after couple of transfers.
Love in Paris, Love in Stork Fertility Center
2/13/2017 01:31:00 AM
Another way to be a parent
Although she did not know her, She appreciated her precious gift;
Although she did not know her, She gave her the most precious.
Picturesque perched villages between the sea and hills in Provence, undeniable scents of coffee along the banks of Seine, night views at the Eiffel tower, puzzling criss-crosses of Louvre Pyramids, and all of these describe the romantic name— La France.
As a tour guide, she always traveled around the world. Optimistic, talkative, and open-minded, are her unique characteristics, and many customers were just attracted by this charming woman. During a private vocation, she met her Mr. right in an adorable city, the city of flowers and love, Paris. This time was not for the temporary guide works, but for the permanent living.
Although they got married later in life, they were not anxious about starting family, and enjoyed the couple's life so much. Until the husband would like to have a baby, she suddenly found that the fertility capacity was significantly declined. At age of 44 years, both the quality and quantity of eggs were limited.
She came back to her hometown for the fertility consultations. The specialist told her that having a baby at her age would be a hard and long journey. After discussing with the husband, they understood that the IVF success rate could be less than 5%, and it seemed very inefficient. They both agreed to register for donated eggs. During the matching process, she wanted to try autologous IVF for several times. If no available embryos harvested, they could use the donated eggs.(More information about our Oocyte bank)
In the next 10 months, she underwent couple of IVF cycles, and one of the cycles was cancelled in the end. Since her husband must work in France, he cryopreserved sperms at Stork Fertility Center in advance. The specialist suggested her taking the accumulative strategy, which was collecting more blastocysts derived from multiple cycles. Until collecting enough embryos, two or three embryos could be transferred once to increase the possibility of implantation.
Disappointedly, only two available blastocysts were obtained within the 10 months, and she still wanted to get a try. However, the thoughtful husband did not want to give her too much pressure, and thus decided to use the donated eggs first.
The matched donor was a cute young college student with kind heart. She was very attentive to follow each step from doctors. The quality of her eggs were as good as her personality. Soon after, the recipient had a positive pregnancy test after transferring the developed embryo (single embryo transfer).
With great joy and expectation, the French husband applied for a long leave to accompany his wife. He helped her do the progesterone injections for luteal support every week. This couple would welcome their first baby in the most romantic country after another 10 months, and they promised the Stork Fertility Center to bring their baby back one day.
According to the article in Fertility and Sterility in 2012, the cumulative live birth rate in the conditions of transferring five blastocysts were shown as below,
