Embryos,
My Husband and I welcomed a baby boy this year from IVF. We have two embryos in storage and I’m torn as to what to do with these embryos? For health reasons I could only carry one more baby so even if we use one of the embryos, we still have one left over. How did couples decide what they were going to do with remaining embryos?
Embryos
Embryos
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Would be implanting both together be an option?
Go with both if possible?
Do they use multiple embryos in IVF transfers?
Two of my three children are IVF. When our third was born, we had three embryos left in storage. I would have happily gone on to use them all but we had previously agreed three children and three is where we stayed. After another year of paying storage fees, we had to make a decision. I did not want to donate a full sibling embryo to another couple, too much potential for future interbreeding if they met as adults. I also did not like knowing that a full sibling of my children might be out there being raised in ways I was not comfortable with. I didn’t think that fair. I asked about donation to science research but apparently here in NZ it is illegal to use embryos created for fertility reasons, in research. So our only option was keep paying for storage forever or destruction. We opted for destruction. I was able to view these embryos as cells that are potential life but not actual life itself so was reasonably pragmatic about it. But when I got the letter officially notifying us that the embryos had been destroyed, I did shed a tear.
Keep the embryos frozen. There is no guarantee that the next one or even two will implant. I had 4 embryos transferred (all single transfers) and only one implanted anf it ended in in a missed miscarrage. Keep them in storage until you have your next baby in your arms