Anyone have children previously W/O ART, but are now doing IVF? (CHILD MNT'd)

[grneyednurse]

I was wondering if anyone is in my same shoes......

I have 3 children from a previous marriage and never had issues getting pregnant. However, now that I am married to my soul mate who loves kids like I do and can now have the big family I always wanted, I find out he has a low sperm count and now we need ICSI to have children together He has no children of course and with ICSI this will be his 1st.

I was also curious that will IVF be more successful for us because I don't have issues? He has been tested for genetic issues related to his sperm count and only thing we have found out is that his FSH is low, but his pituitary gland is normal as is everything else....we have tried a few things without change, so it's off to ICSI-ville we will go December/January!

If anyone can relate to my situation and/or has any knowledge about IVF for our situation, please comment! Thx!

[3 ladybugs]

Child, child loss mentioned

I am not quite in that situation but I didn't need IVF to conceive. I was able to get pregnant with IUI and injectable medication. However I got pregnant with triplets that I later lost. So I was told to go to IVF to control how many children I would have at once.

My result was I did 2 IVF's. My first IVF I was able to get pregnant, however I miscarried and I only had 1 frozen and wanted to have 3 children. My second IVF I got pregnant and carried to term and got 4 more frozen babies. Both times I transfered 2 embryos that were or nearly perfect.

I believe that there should be several people in your shoes though. I do see it often on here.

Good luck and welcome to the IVF board!

[AMF]

I haven't posted on this board for a long time. My situation is similar to yours. First child was with another partner. Then I married my dh. We underwent IVF/ICSI due to our diagnosis with severe male factor. Our RE told us our chances are good as I had delivered a full term infant before. However, we did find out we had some other issues, similar to immune issues that may have contributed to our infertility. This may or may not be the case with you, but now as it turns out, I am now unable to have any more children, while dh...although he has a low count, realisitcally can. Weird how that worked out.
Best wishes to you on and your soul mate. May you blessed with as many babies as your heart can hold.
and yes, our IVF cycle was a success.

[Nut Mommy]

I've been pregnant three times, all by my husband. The first took about 6 months to conceive naturally and ended in a missed miscarriage. I got pregnant again naturally about 6 months later and had my son, who is now 3. We tried to conceive #2 for about 9 months and then went and got checked out, only to find he had an extremely low sperm count (in the 1MM range). This was then confirmed with a second and third SA. The doctors could not really explain why this happened, and because they couldn't say whether it had always existed (and we just got really lucky the first two times) or whether it would get better or worse (and because I was about to turn 35) we decided to go right into IVF. It also helped that my company's insurance paid $15K plus my meds so we knew we'd get at least one cycle paid for.

I had a GREAT response to the meds, ended up with 20+ mature eggs, froze most of them, ICSI'd 8, ended up with 4 perfect 5 day blasts, froze 3, and transferred one. I'm now 25 weeks pregnant.

My assumption is that my DH was always on the low side of normal and that's why it took us a while to get pregnant the first two times. Since I, like you, had no issues that anyone could find, I assume that my good IVF response was related to it. Hopefully the same will be the case for you. Good luck!

[grneyednurse]

Wow thanks for your responses everyone. Interesting stories. Guess it will be wait and see how it turns out for us. I already know I am extremely sensitive to anything hormone-like and I react intensely to them all... any BCP, DHEA (mistakenly taken), soy isos (was desperate and tried everything before we got our MFI diagnosis), progesterone cream....I always have a strong reaction....cannot even imagine what the IVF meds will do to me! Hopefully a lot of good eggs and I am sure tons of bad side effects...