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After our second son I told my husband I needed to raise a daughter and wanted a third child. I contemplated MS at that time but got caught out on my dates and lo and behold I got pregnant. Enter my third son. I found out the gender and was disappointed as I thought this was it. My DH said if you want a DD I will be ok with having another baby. Again, started discussing HT. He was OK with it and, ...
15 Apr 2012 1:27 AM
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Well, first of all, I would NEVER, EVER, EVER tell my boys to be nice to anyone because of their gender. If they play rough whether it be to other little boys or little girls I would admonish them but that is it. I definitely understand your secret relief that your friend did not have the DG that she was predicted. Now you will have a friend who is also an all boy mom. I am an all boy mom but now ...
14 Apr 2012 2:30 AM
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[quote user="Sunny13"]I got pregnant with my boys extremely FAST!!! but now, since we don't want to have a lot of kids we decided to do the IVF PGD.
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anyone here went through IVF PGD only for family balancing (gender selection) purposes? and who is very fertile in general? [/quote]
Most are here for the exact same reasons as you. Everyone seems to be a fertile myrtle and that is one of h...
13 Oct 2011 1:14 PM
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mini ivf is just not worth it given the amount of loss from doing IVF / PGD. If you only had 2-3 embies to work with you would almost certainly be facing a no transfer situation. it is a lot of emotional trauma and financial outlay to go that route in my opinion. I donated my left over embryos to science and I am more than good with that. To go this route you need to weigh how much you want your ...
07 Oct 2011 8:55 PM
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Not sure about GIVF but we cycled locally and my husband did his job at home and then he took it there. I believe that the male has to bring his own sample in. I think you need to be within a certain timeframe driving to deliver the sample - can't recall but we live 15 minutes away and they were fine with that so perhaps it needs to be in their hands 1 hour after the sample is produced.
16 Sep 2011 10:44 PM
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Well, depending on your age, response to the meds and how the embryos do and (if you stay in the states MS is not an option unless already enrolled) you will lose some normals to the opposite gender it is not a sure thing that you will have anything to go to freeze, especially if you want to implant 2. However if you do, then yes it is easier and cheaper and has good success for FETs these days. G...
13 Sep 2011 1:27 PM
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They did not share grades with me. Said that two looked good, one (HB) the best. He thought I had an excellent chance of becoming pg with one and probably a 40-50% chance of twins, almost no chance of triplets unless one split. Thank you for your congrats, we are blessed and very happy.
11 Sep 2011 3:21 AM
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[quote user="belleoftheball"]Vent/help, please!! ok, DH has 3 boys and we have one together totaling 4 boys. I am preggo with baby 2 (which posted u/s on gender predict and they're pretty much saying boy....again.... ultrasound not for another 3 weeks or so...losing all hope day by day that this is boy #5.
So, already bummed about that...Here's what is irking the crap out ...
11 Sep 2011 3:18 AM
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Well for me it has just made me feel complete and blessed that I have now the priviledge of raising both genders. I love my boys to their core and love their boyness but I am excited to see how my DD is at the same ages. So for me DD was never a prefered gender it was just a missing one in my family! I never had gender disappointment merely gender desire which could explain the different answers y...
11 Sep 2011 3:16 AM
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GIVF are close to you in Fairfax I believe. Popular but I am sure others will chime in with other local possibilities
08 Sep 2011 11:35 PM
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RFC or HRC on west coast seem popular
08 Sep 2011 11:35 PM
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I transferred 3, although 1 of them was "never going to make a baby" according to my RE and that they were all surprised that she was normal as metabollically speaking she did not look great. I decided since it was not going to make a freeze / thaw cycle that I should just transfer it. I made the decision there and then at the transfer at the last minute. I was by myself. My DH face was a pict...
08 Sep 2011 11:20 PM
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I had a normal GSN female and decided that due to my age and the fact I had previously done amnios, again age related, that I would skip the risk assessment testing and just get the definitive from an amnio. Everything came back normal - as I would have expected. I am 42 so again, I felt the need to double / triple check the gsn results. if I were younger, perhaps I would not have felt as compelle...
08 Sep 2011 1:31 AM
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Excellent news. Hope the rest of the pregnancy is completely uneventful :)
05 Sep 2011 10:52 PM
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good luck!!!
18 Aug 2011 10:48 PM
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I know this has been asked and answered before so if search works maybe see what you get. GL!
02 Aug 2011 10:19 PM
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[quote user="mjoelle"]Our5sons- I know I would have a 5th boy too if we don't look into HT! Something about the chemistry of a couple! I never got a chance to "sway" with this one. I actually was considering having my hubby get the snip!
Guess this little guy REALLY wanted to be here! Like you, I am excited my youngest will have a buddy, but just sad I'll never get to do my gilrly stuff ...
02 Aug 2011 10:18 PM
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I would start by reading the sticky on this page of "Where is PGD available for family balancing?" started by Dr Potter. I think you may find what you are looking for as a starting point for your research
29 Jul 2011 1:38 AM
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I would imagine that depending on when the clinic wants you there, theoretically your husband only needs to be there on the day off to provide his sample. It needs to be a fresh sample for MS really (they can do with frozen but results are not as good as with the fresh). IUI has pretty low success rates and MS IUI even lower so I would be prefer to do it a number of times for it to be successful. ...
27 Jul 2011 9:57 PM
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Are you me? I could have written all of this 18 months ago. I was 40 when our 4th son was born. I thought 4 was it. I wanted a daughter to complete our family. I decided to go the GS route. It took 4 cycles but perseverance paid off in my case (you can read my surveys on this site for each cycle) and we now have our DD. 5 kids is a lot. We are fortunate to have help but it is still a lot. I would ...
25 Jul 2011 8:35 PM
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sorry :(
08 Jul 2011 9:54 PM
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I am sorry you are having a hard time. The unknown is the killer. Not knowing if there will be a success or not. I would definitely look at what the package price for 2 cycles is compared to a single cycle. Just taking some of the pressure off may help. I had 4 cycles and had a transfer each time. I ended up over all cycles with 11 embryos deemed as normal (first cycle there were 6 but I only did ...
06 Jul 2011 9:50 PM
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Good mix. You can see my results in the surveys for all 4 cycles. I believe it was pretty much 50-50 for me after all cycles with a slight bias towards the gender I did NOT have! (5 boys vs 6 girls)
GL!
06 Jul 2011 9:44 PM
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Good mix. You can see my results in the surveys for all 4 cycles. I believe it was pretty much 50-50 for me after all cycles with a slight bias towards the gender I did NOT have!
GL!
06 Jul 2011 9:42 PM
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Congratulations!!! I do remember you and your cycles and your BFP. I am pleased that you came back to update everyone. Good luck with finding that perfect name for your perfect DD!
02 Jul 2011 7:50 PM
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