Besides financials, is there any risk to moving straight to IVF instead of IUI at 39 years old. Good AMH (1.76) no male factor. Previous child from medicated TI.
Just got the list of all the meds I’ll be taking and wondering if I should have opted to go for less invasive route. I technically still have time to change my mind…

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The only other real risk is time / commitment / physical investment in the process. I wouldn’t call them risk so much as considerations. IVF is a major commitment but if $ not an issue, at that age I would just go full force into IVF personally.

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Also, my docs said that elevated cancer risk with ivf has only been shown to be statistically significant after 5 or 6 ivf rounds, generally.

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I should just save this comment on my clipboard I find myself repeating it so much here:

I would ALWAYS go straight to IVF. I have four friends who wasted precious time & $ on IUIs and it didn’t work for any of them. 3/4 had success with IVF.

I went straight to IVF at 39. The cost was daunting but was more tolerable than the thought of wasting precious time when my eggs weren’t getting any younger.

Took 2 rounds and now I’m nursing the result. Don’t get discouraged it is a lot of meds etc but soon this part will be a distant memory

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I did it prior to pregnancy during IVF 😬 Heading back from mat leave in a month we’ll see how it goes.

My former boss (CMO in tech industry) was a great mentor. She has gone thru IVF and became a mom. She just accepted a new CMO role at 2 months pregnant with her second embryo transfer! Her advice was give yourself grace, separate home/family from work (family takes priority), commit to less, hire well and delegate like your life depends on it.

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After 3 losses, I went straight to IVF, didn't do IUI. The ovarian stimulation phase for egg retrieval was challenging but got through it and was eventually able to get PGT-A testing done on 5 embryos. 3 of those were euploid and were frozen. I had 8 weeks of progesterone and estradiol injections and am now 11w pregnant after frozen embryo transfer. Yes this was an expensive time commitment but completely worth it so far!

Thank you so much. This is uplifting

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