{"id":10430,"date":"2021-06-09T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T09:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/?p=10430"},"modified":"2022-09-27T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:29:47","slug":"story-liza-niklas-ivf-pgta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/success-stories\/story-liza-niklas-ivf-pgta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Liza and Niklas and their little \u201cGolden Egg\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends, we are so happy to share with you the story of our dear patients Liza and Niklas who have got their long-awaited daughter Mira at the age of 43 with the help of IVF with their own eggs and PGT-A in O.L.G.A. Clinic.<\/p>\n

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Watch InstaLive with Lisa and Niklas,<\/strong> where they shared their story, and Dr. Elena, Dr. Irina and Dr. Olga explained our treatment process and answered questions.<\/p>\n

Watch Part 1 \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Watch Part 2\u00a0\u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Liza @lizabidner<\/a>\u00a0and Niklas:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are forever thankful to O.L.G.A. Fertility Clinic; Dr. Elena Lapina and Dr. Irina Uvarova for making our dream come true!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2764\ufe0f We have struggled with fertility issues for 10 years. We’ve had one ectopic pregnancy and several miscarriages. We got a miracle after 5 years – a “surprise” successful pregnancy while we were waiting to do IVF in Sweden. This pregnancy resulted in our son Linus. Since then, we have tried for a sibling, but nothing happened… After 2 years we got 2 miscarriages in a row. We knew we needed help, but we couldn’t find it in Sweden. Then we found Dr. Olga Zaytseff!\u2764\ufe0f\u00a0We attended her seminar in Gothenburg in 2019, and after that we got consultation with Dr Elena Lapina, who could help us!<\/em><\/p>\n

We went to St. Petersburg in September 2019 for our egg retrieval (I was 43 at that time), and got 13 eggs, and 8 blastocysts. After PGT-A, one “golden blastocyst” was found to have a normal number of chromosomes, and 7 blastocysts had abnormal numbers of chromosomes.<\/em><\/p>\n

After one more visit in St Petersburg for a hysteroscopy, we planned to do our embryo transfer in March 2020. Well, the corona-pandemic put an end to our plans. Instead, I went for an embryo transfer in September 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We were lucky, because we succeeded and it resulted in our little princess, Mira! \u2764\ufe0f<\/em><\/p>\n

14\/5 2021 at 13.56, she finally came into the world! Linus’ little sister and our daughter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Can’t believe that we succeeded after our first try at IVF with our own eggs! Thank you for your help! You are real miracle-workers!\u00a0After 10 years we are finally a family of four! \u2764\ufe0f\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"Dr.Dr. Elena and Dr. Olga comment:<\/h2>\n

I. What was our approach that has helped Liza and Niklas?<\/h3>\n

Viable embryos, capable of development up to healthy live birth, have 23 chromosome pairs in their genome. On day 5 it is too early yet, and even if an embryo has reached a blastocyst stage and looks good under the microscope, these good looks do not correlate with normality for 23 chromosomes. Hence these good looks do not correlate with the probability of live birth either.<\/p>\n

Natural selection in the first 12 weeks of embryonic development still continues, and those embryos with abnormal number of chromosomes, which have achieved implantation, will sadly result in a miscarriage.<\/p>\n

Not all that glitters is gold.
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Not all the good-looking blastocysts have a normal number of chromosomes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the age of 43 only one out of 8-9 blastocysts is expected to have a normal number of chromosomes.<\/p>\n

Liza happened to be exactly within statistical expectations: 7 out of 8 blastocysts happened to have an abnormal number of chromosomes, and 1 out of 8 blastocysts \u2013 normal! Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Before transferring this embryo into the uterus, it was important to create the best possible environment for this embryo to stay. We have done hysteroscopy and have found some scar tissue and inflammation in the uterus \u2013 the consequences after Liza\u2019s miscarriages. We have removed scar tissue and treated inflammation, having done everything possible for the \u201cgolden embryo\u201d to wish to implant and stay.<\/p>\n

Our efforts were rewarded by successful embryo transfer and healthy live birth! Congratulations!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

II. What is\u00a0PGT-A?<\/h3>\n

PGT-A is a method which checks embryos for normality for 23 chromosomes before a potential transfer. PGT-A helps to exclude abnormal embryos from usage.<\/p>\n

By excluding abnormal embryos from usage PGT-A helps:<\/strong><\/p>\n