Anyone been through PGD with IVF?

[Deltasunshine]

Hi everyone, I'm new here. My husband and I will be going through PGD with IVF due to a gene defect on my side. Had our first consultation yesterday and feeling a little overwhelmed by the thought of the long journey ahead. Has anyone else been through PGD? I'm a bit of a control freak and like to prepare but got a feeling a lot of this will be out of my hands!

[Walton776]

Hello! I am currently 20 weeks pregnant with my little miracle PGD baby! Feel free to message me with any questions! There isn’t much info out there it seems xxx

[Deltasunshine in reply to Walton776]

Hi, thank you for getting in touch! Congratulations! That's such lovely news 💖 Yes, I've been trying to research about PGD and hardly find anything. I'm guessing the waiting around is probably the hardest part. Thank you for being open to questions...I'm waiting for a bit more info about a blood test I need to have for AMH is it? It's like another language isn't it?! Xx

[ChloeDE]

HiWe went through two rounds of PGD in London. Unfortunately, we didn't get any blastocysts from either round so didn't actually do the testing.

There is a good Facebook group for PGS/PGD testing where you can get lots of information.

[Lapinblanc88]

For this round i tested them as I'm late 30's and my amh has dropped by 5 folds in 2 years!

3 out of 5 of my embryos made it.

One didn't survive the biopsy ( something to bear in mind!) And the other one was abnormal

Currently 7weeks pregnant

I have read a lot about pgs

My thoughts: can save time each time you transfer an embryo , I'd say about 3months.imagine you transfer a genetically abnormal embryo: 2ww, then the pregnancy can progress to a chemical and then the heartache of miscarriages ( I had 2) . You then have to wait again in order to do another transfer or cycle.

If you transfer a genetically normal embryo and it implants your chance of miscarriage are far lower especially if you're older.

Lots of controversy around this though

It can damage embryos ( like mine)

Fake positive.

There is a theory that embryos can actually repair themselves so pgs discards embryos that could have resulted in live births.

Inaccurate results since the biopsy only targets a small portion of the "future " baby

I have a feeling clinics push for them as it's better for their live births stats per transfer

[Zebedee1971 in reply to Lapinblanc88]

100% agree with all of this, especially the last statement.

[Kimcon]

Hiya I'm on my second cycle of Pgd ivf at guys hospital, I had transfer yesterday. Message me anytime if you have any questions.x

[Zebedee1971]

Hi,I'm very anti-pgd testing. Firstly, because my miscarriage specialist is against it. His reasons being : 1. Nature has many safety nets in place anyway, so abnormal embryos will usually end very early, normally a chemical. 2. It can be really expensive and, if you only get 1 or 2, is pointless doing anyway, as you might as well just shove them in and see how they get on. 3. Research has shown that some abnormal embryos, when transferred, have gone on to implant and produce healthy babies (USA)

My own personal reason for not being a fan however, is that I had pgd testing on my 2 embryos and they both came back abnormal. Being told this left me Paranoid that all my eggs were bad (a concern I already had) and that I'd never get a normal embryo, that they'd all be duds. Psychologically this was really tough to deal with. I then got pregnant naturally two months later. So I stressed needlessly.

My advice if you do do it is to bare in mind that if you do get abnormal ones, this doesn't mean they'll all be abnormal... Don't let the results play with your emotions too much. Don't do what I did and stress over it. Every cycle is different and every embryo is different. As long as you are mentally prepared for any outcome--positive or negative-- you'll be fine. X