Should I transfer all 6 eggs?

[LadyCB]

I am 40, never had children, and experienced preovarian failure at age 19.  I'm trying IVF for the first time with the hope of getting pregnant.  I'm scheduled for an embryo transfer this weekend..  Six eggs out of  9 are of good quality.  I'm excited, yet a bit anxious.  What are your thoughts?  Bottom line:  My husband and I desire a child.

[Nabwen]

I remarried a man who never had children later in life after losing my first husband to Cancer.  I am 49 years old and am going through my first IVF cycle using donor eggs.  I had 3 good quality blasts by day 5 and my doctor refused to transfer more than one due to his high success rates. Today I am 7dpt and had my first beta... 56, I was ecstatic and am going to have my 2nd beta on Monday, there is hope for 40+ women desiring to have a family.... Good luck and always keep the faith!

[Peppapig69]

Do you want to risk having sextuplets at your age

[hope447]

Hi. I'm 40 and just had a transfer 2 days ago 3/17. They retreived 7 and 5 made it to blast 5 day transfer, 2 made it to stage 3 and 1 was "kinda" good. I had a total of 3 transferred. Today I had my progesterone level at 24.2 and will go back in a week for my pregnancy test. I feel good and very hopeful. I'd love to have twins but 1 is also good. I'll take whatever God gives me. Stay positive!! and Goodluck

[Baby4me70]

There is no way I would transfer all 6!  On my last cycle we had 6 embryo's at day 2 so we let them go to Blast stage and transfered the max (3) for my RE.  I got a chemical pregnancy.  I will be doing a FET in Nov.

On my 1st cycle we transfered 4 back on day 3.   2 were good and 2 not so good however I did not like the idea of discarding the 2 no so good ones.  I was praying that the 2 good ones would work, of course it didn't and I got a BFN.  By the way I am 39.

If you transfered all 6 of them and they all took you would be faced with reduction and do you want that.  

I don't believe you should transfer more than you are willing to carry.

Best of luck to you!

[justtoolate]

I had IVF at 41 and they transfered 5 embies, unfortunately non took. It depends on your egg quality and your age. At your age if your embryo's are excellent they may try to freeze them and implant only a few, but at 40 it is very rare, it also depends on 3 day or 5 day transfer. A 5 day transfer would mean that your embryo's were good enough to survive for 5 days and they will usually only transfer 1 or 2. If they are doing a 3 day transfer and perhaps 4 embryo's are very good and 2 are ok, I would have as many transfered as they think would give you the best chance at conceiving, unfortunately at age 40 most will not make it so, the more embryo's you have transfered the better your chances are at conceiving. Also the is a great forum on MH that just started called TTC OVER 40. It has a lot of great info and advice for women trying to conceive at our age. Good Luck!! I hope you have a BFP soon.

[rjoshua]

I would definately check with your RE as most drs. won't tranfer 6 eggs at a time.  The most mine would transfer was 3, and on very rare occasions 4.

Hope you get your BFP soon.