After having visited 8 clinics in 5 different countries and having done 8 IVF/ICSI cycles and 10 embryo transfers with own eggs, then 3 embryo transfers with donor eggs, Frida has achieved successful pregnancy and live birth on the first embryo transfer in OLGA Clinic St.Petersburg!
For 10 years we waited, tried, prayed and cried. Never in my mind had I thought it would be so difficult to welcome a sibling. Never had I heard about secondary infertility.
In 2009 our first daughter was born. She was conceived without any support, but the pregnancy was preceded by a miscarriage two years earlier. I got preeclampsia by the end of my first pregnancy, which ended with an emergency c-section. Given this I wanted to wait with the second child, and I was put on the pills as soon as possible.
As time went by, we started to try for a sibling. My husband was then 31 and I was 34. The doctor saw no issues with having a second child. So, we tried, tried and tried.
In 2012 we moved to another city, and I went to a new gynecologist. As we were still “young” and had a child she asked us to try for another year, but now more controlled and with some supporting medication. So, we tried, tried and tried.
Our fertility story is long, and most people couldn’t care less than to listen to everything we have gone through, which I will come back to later.
In the end we started our IVF journey. The doctors said it would be easy and we thought we would be pregnant within three attempts, which most couples do. So, we tried, tried and tried.
It would take us 14 embryo transfers and visits to 9 clinics in 6 different countries (Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain and finally Russia) until we would finally hold our little star in our arms.
They said it would be easy. It wasn’t. They said there were no issues. There were many. For a pregnancy you need good eggs, sperm and a healthy uterus. In our case we found issues in all three areas. This made our case very complicated.
In 2020 I was exhausted. We had tried 8 IVF/ICSI cycles and 10 embryo transfers with own eggs, 3 embryo transfers with donated eggs. I had carried out 2x hysteroscopy, 3x ERA tests as well as Alice and Emma tests. I had stuffed by body with conventional medication and unconventional vitamins and supplements.
There was still one clinic I hadn’t visited, but which I had been in contact with a few years earlier. Though there were three challenges 1) how could I convince the clinic to take on this impossible case 2) we were in the middle of a pandemic 3) my husband could not travel to Russia.
Dr. Olga and her team are just amazing. They actually did decide to go through ALL of our medical history and that is A LOT. I sent tons of documents and after what felt waiting for eternity, they did come back, and they were willing to take on our case AND offer us a live birth money back guarantee [because we cannot literally guarantee live birth but we can refund money if it was not achieved]
In the end I only visited St Petersburg twice — once for a hysteroscopy and multiple tests and a second time for the transfer. On April the 13th 2022 our 14th attempt was born, our little star.
The journey at OLGA may seem easy, but it wasn’t. Dr. Olga together with Dr. Elena, Dr. Alena and Dr. Nina spent many hours identifying what could be wrong and what could be optimized.
The journey was anything but easy, but it was worth all the pain.
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