{"id":6884,"date":"2009-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:42:49","slug":"happy-family-ivf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/success-stories\/happy-family-ivf\/","title":{"rendered":"Good luck from a happy family with two children!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We first started to try to conceive a child in&nbsp;the autumn of 1997 and&nbsp;after a year of unsuccessful attempts we contacted a hormone clinic. We used Clomiphene pills for&nbsp;six months and&nbsp;then estrogen injections for&nbsp;two years but&nbsp;to no avail. We were referred to an IVF-clinic where&nbsp;we started our five attempts but&nbsp;since the medication did not have the desired effect only one egg retrieval was performed, and&nbsp;then only resulted in&nbsp;two eggs. They were fertilized but&nbsp;did not develop as&nbsp;they should have. The physician at&nbsp;the clinic recommended that&nbsp;we did no further attempts and&nbsp;instead directed our attention towards adoption or&nbsp;egg donation. We had already started to attend an education for&nbsp;adoption. Since&nbsp;the rules in&nbsp;Sweden are so&nbsp;strict concerning the donors, very few attempts with egg donation are made here, whereas&nbsp;the rules for&nbsp;adoption were a lot less strict and&nbsp;each town council could do their own interpretation of what was endorsed. We were approved as&nbsp;adoptive parents, but&nbsp;we were neither allowed to choose from which&nbsp;country we wanted to adopt the children nor&nbsp;their age and&nbsp;siblings were out of the question. This was a big grief for&nbsp;us since&nbsp;we during the long process of the adoption had developed an immense attachment for&nbsp;the children we hoped to adopt. We did after&nbsp;all decide to endeavour egg donation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #454545;\">All this had brought us to the summer of 2003 and&nbsp;we undertook an egg donation treatment in&nbsp;Finland. It is not very far away and&nbsp;the physician spoke Swedish. We succeeded in&nbsp;the first try and&nbsp;had a little boy. He is very cute and&nbsp;popular among his friends at&nbsp;the daycare centre, not least among the girls. Some years later we wanted him to have a brother or&nbsp;sister, but&nbsp;by then the rules in&nbsp;Finland had changed and&nbsp;the time we would have had to wait even&nbsp;longer than&nbsp;the first time. We contacted Dr Olga instead and&nbsp;there was no waiting list at&nbsp;the clinic at&nbsp;the time. We were also surprised to find what a <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #454545;\">big difference there is between the treatment in&nbsp;Finland and&nbsp;Russia<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #454545;\">. The staff here at&nbsp;the Saint Petersburg clinic was much more conscientious. Every step in&nbsp;the process is slightly altered to achieve an optimal result and&nbsp;the age limit for&nbsp;donors is lower. These factors significantly increase the likelihood of success. One can also decide that&nbsp;the donor should have an academic exam which&nbsp;felt agreeable since&nbsp;the risk thereby is minimized for&nbsp;chromosome deviations and&nbsp;genetically predisposed brain damage. This is an advantage with egg donation compared to adoption. Another plus is that&nbsp;if&nbsp;it is oneself that&nbsp;is pregnant and&nbsp;is giving birth in&nbsp;Sweden one automatically will be considered to be the biological mother. One can also have an effect on&nbsp;the physical condition of the child by living healthy during the pregnancy. Since&nbsp;the looks of the donor is matched towards the mothers we have noticed that&nbsp;already after&nbsp;a few weeks the children are beginning to look like us. Research has shown that&nbsp;this is related to infants&#8217; good ability to copy facial expressions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #454545;\">It is worth the extra hassle of going to Russia with the visa applications and&nbsp;the required longer stays. Once&nbsp;there, one is well looked after&nbsp;by the staff and&nbsp;when in&nbsp;Sweden one has a frequent contact by telephone and&nbsp;email with the doctor. We now&nbsp;have another wonderful son. He is almost three months old and&nbsp;is very keen on&nbsp;our company. Now&nbsp;at last it feels like we are a real family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #454545;\">Good luck from a happy family with two children!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #454545;\">2009<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first started to try to conceive a child in the autumn of 1997 and after a year of unsuccessful attempts we contacted&#8230;We succeeded in the first try and had a little boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Good luck from a happy family with two children! - O.L.G.A. 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