{"id":6908,"date":"2009-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2020-09-15T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:18:43","slug":"thanks-to-the-russian-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/success-stories\/thanks-to-the-russian-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to the doctors of the Russian clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Part one<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My cooperation with Dr Olga Zaytseff<\/p>\n<p>I got pregnant at&nbsp;first try at&nbsp;her clinic &#8211; it is a success story of a married couple of Yugoslav.<\/p>\n<p>Olga Zaytseff is a medical doctor who&nbsp;provides medical service for&nbsp;international patients (in the Clinic located in&nbsp;Saint Petersburg, Russia).<\/p>\n<p>After&nbsp;seven-month correspondence and&nbsp;personal contacts with her, I feel free to give my opinion about her work and&nbsp;patient management. She is an excellent doctor, ready to deal with the most demanding patients.<\/p>\n<p>And&nbsp;I certainly was the one. I wanted to be actively involved in&nbsp;all steps of the treatment plan and&nbsp;I had so&nbsp;many questions, worries and&nbsp;fears, but&nbsp;Dr Olga exhibited great professionalism in&nbsp;dealing with all that, even&nbsp;with my occasional impatience.<\/p>\n<p>I do not have a medical background to understand all medical terms, but&nbsp;I followed and&nbsp;compared therapy schemes of other patients with my diagnosis (POF), who&nbsp;were also in&nbsp;preparation for&nbsp;DE. I realized a lot of differences.<\/p>\n<p>There were differences in&nbsp;pretreatment dynamics, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;in certain medications and&nbsp;their dosage. My opinion is that&nbsp;the individual approach in&nbsp;creating a treatment plan is just the key of Dr Olga\u2019s great success.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, she has a perfect combination of necessary professionalism and&nbsp;politeness in&nbsp;communication with the patient, but&nbsp;also recognize the moment when&nbsp;patient, in&nbsp;this delicate procedure of IVF treatment, needs and&nbsp;wants something more! Simply: she gives the impression that&nbsp;she truly cares for&nbsp;her patients. And&nbsp;because&nbsp;of that, I would recommend to all her future patients just to leave everything to her, and&nbsp;certainly that&nbsp;is the best way for&nbsp;successful ET.<\/p>\n<p>This is a snapshot from my experience during treatment protocol<\/p>\n<p>On&nbsp;my first examination, the PGD method was scheduled to achieve better implantation of the embryos. Surprisingly, Dr Olga informed us about new discoveries in&nbsp;this field, where&nbsp;this method, when&nbsp;is used in&nbsp;DEIVF, due to its high sensitivity, disqualifies some cells and&nbsp;therefore may reduce a significant number of healthy embryos capable for&nbsp;implantation.<\/p>\n<p>However, she let us make a decision and&nbsp;we chose not to proceed with PGD. Initially, there were 12 fertilized embryos, but&nbsp;on the fifth day only 2 were transferred at&nbsp;the blastocyst stage and&nbsp;additional 2 that&nbsp;survived, were cryopreserved in&nbsp;the morula stage. There were no extra! We would spend more money on&nbsp;PGD and&nbsp;probably lose more embryos. Dr Olga was frank and&nbsp;honest with us, keeping our best interest in&nbsp;mind and&nbsp;that\u2019s why&nbsp;we appreciate and&nbsp;respect her even&nbsp;more.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that&nbsp;Dr Olga Zaytseff was trained by the best in&nbsp;the Russian Federation. She will remain modest, in&nbsp;spite of her widely recognized competence, and&nbsp;dedicated to her patients. The clinic, thanks to her, will be ahead of the others for&nbsp;a long time.<\/p>\n<p>My husband and&nbsp;I wish her cordially all the happiness in&nbsp;her life and&nbsp;a lot of successful IVFs! If&nbsp;anybody has some questions, I `ll be so&nbsp;glad to answer, about my treatment plan and&nbsp;DEIVF in&nbsp;t. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I got pregnant on&nbsp;the first try at&nbsp;the clinic in&nbsp;St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>A successful story by a married couple from former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>There is a message I want to convey to everybody who&nbsp;wants to have a baby through egg donation: that&nbsp;miracles are possible and&nbsp;they don\u2019t happen just to other people. Because&nbsp;for us DEIVF treatment was successful after&nbsp;the first try at&nbsp;the clinic in&nbsp;St. Petersburg in&nbsp;the Russian Federation. The first step to make this dream come true is that&nbsp;every woman makes an honest decision about this. The decision has to be hers, not because&nbsp;her partner asks. It has to be with her partner\u2019s support. The next and&nbsp;even more important step is to pick a clinic that&nbsp;you trust completely and&nbsp;whose high standards in&nbsp;embryo transfer convince how seriously they regard their medical service.<\/p>\n<p>Our success story is accompanied by lots of signs, good intuition, and&nbsp;in end the \u201cfinger of destiny.\u201d After&nbsp;many months reading about different clinics, our top choices were three clinics in&nbsp;the Czech Republic and&nbsp;we were ready to send applications with all of our test results. However, our plans changed. From our forum, I heard about the clinic in&nbsp;St. Petersburg. Thanks to Mini, our countrywoman, (now she is my cyber godmother) that&nbsp;lives in&nbsp;London who&nbsp;searched and&nbsp;checked the ratings of clinics on&nbsp;the English forum www.fertilityfriends.uk. She recommended the clinic because, unlike other ones, this clinic works with donors who&nbsp;have their own healthy children already. Until&nbsp;then I didn\u2019t even&nbsp;know that&nbsp;you can do egg donation in&nbsp;Russia. Especially not with donors who&nbsp;have their own children already. I went to their website and&nbsp;I believe I didn\u2019t take a break for&nbsp;the next 48 hrs. I opened absolutely every webpage on&nbsp;the site, even&nbsp;those that&nbsp;weren\u2019t about egg donation. I wanted to know everything. I wanted to know more than&nbsp;they had presented on&nbsp;the site. I analyzed the physicians, how old they were, their biographies and&nbsp;illustrations. I analyzed their approach and&nbsp;explanations about why&nbsp;it is important to come in&nbsp;person for&nbsp;the first consultation. This kind of approach showed me how serious they were about it. I realized that&nbsp;the clinic wants to use an individual approach with each patient. Early on&nbsp;they use screening and&nbsp;testing to increase the success rates of in-vitro. All the arguments were in&nbsp;favor of this clinic. They also emphasized that&nbsp;there was no waiting list. What captured my attention was their detailed explanation of the risks of multiple pregnancies and&nbsp;their strict laws about how many embryos can be transferred. The clinics always obey this law and&nbsp;they don\u2019t care about statistics or&nbsp;success rates or&nbsp;any financial motivation. What interested me was their methodical approach and&nbsp;I hoped that&nbsp;they would adhere to their principles. I compared the details with other clinics.<\/p>\n<p>And&nbsp;then suddenly I remembered that&nbsp;I know a lot about Russian history, even&nbsp;about their current politics, and&nbsp;above all, about Russian literature\u2026 similar languages, same religion. There was no reason for&nbsp;me to be indecisive, except one. The price of the treatment. But&nbsp;at the same time, I became aware of the fact that&nbsp;with my almost 39 years I had to give myself the best and&nbsp;have faith and&nbsp;hope in&nbsp;a successful outcome. I know I didn\u2019t have time, or&nbsp;extra money, to try other clinics more times, probably without success. This sounds like a fantasy but&nbsp;I had a strong wish and&nbsp;faith that&nbsp;it would be successful after&nbsp;the first try. Even&nbsp;on&nbsp;the day of the transfer I still had faith in&nbsp;success. I confided in&nbsp;Dr. Olga my intuition when&nbsp;I was laying on&nbsp;the table. She understood. I knew that&nbsp;this was my chance. I felt it.<\/p>\n<p>Everything after&nbsp;that was like a movie. In&nbsp;an act of kindness, a company provided&nbsp;money for&nbsp;the DEIVF treatment as&nbsp;soon&nbsp;as&nbsp;I contacted them. There was no end to my happiness. Everything was so&nbsp;ideal that&nbsp;I was in&nbsp;the clouds all the way until&nbsp;my first consultation visit. My dream became a reality. When&nbsp;you want something very much and&nbsp;when your decision is final I think that&nbsp;nobody can stop you. And&nbsp;a good clinic can make dreams come true because\u2026I am now&nbsp;pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave it to the doctors to explain the reasons for&nbsp;using an egg donor but&nbsp;in my case, it was early menopause\u2026with an FSH higher than&nbsp;80. I didn\u2019t have any alternative for&nbsp;any new treatments or&nbsp;experiments. After&nbsp;early menopause when&nbsp;I was 33 I decided not to use HRT. That\u2019s why&nbsp;I needed more time than&nbsp;others to get ready for&nbsp;the DEIVF treatment. It was still a shorter time than&nbsp;planned, thanks to an excellent response to the therapy. If&nbsp;this seemed to anybody that&nbsp;it was ideal it wasn\u2019t. There was lots of anxiety and&nbsp;worry about the unknown. I especially remember the days when&nbsp;we were trying to decide about using an anonymous donor based on&nbsp;her available data. We asked the clinic for&nbsp;alternative donors as&nbsp;well. My husband and&nbsp;I could not easily choose between, on&nbsp;one hand, the first donor with the same blood type and&nbsp;RH factor as&nbsp;me, and&nbsp;one the other hand, O blood type and&nbsp;RH negative. Unexpectedly we chose the second one. We decided based on&nbsp;the greater possibility of physical similarities with me and&nbsp;possibly more successful implantation with blood type O. But&nbsp;we will remember those days always together. The whole thing was like we were in&nbsp;a cartoon. After&nbsp;studying all day and&nbsp;night about A, O, and&nbsp;B blood types, we began to see people as&nbsp;their blood type letters. Following their policy of the anonymity of donors, after&nbsp;we picked the donor the doctor said she already had two successful donations. We knew we made the right decision. Because&nbsp;we believed we made the best decision, we put off DEIVF for&nbsp;two months because&nbsp;the donor we picked had developed a cyst. We didn\u2019t want to accept a 3rd alternative donor. We decided to wait for&nbsp;our best opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>During our embryo transfer, we spent about 10 beautiful days in&nbsp;St. Petersburg, probably one of the nicest cities in&nbsp;the world where&nbsp;when you walk you have a feeling that&nbsp;you\u2019re in&nbsp;a 21st-century fairy tale because&nbsp;wonderful architecture, luxurious mansions, and&nbsp;the history of Czarist Russia is everywhere. During that&nbsp;time we went to the clinic a couple of times. We weren\u2019t nervous or&nbsp;tense. We let Dr. Olga evaluate the situation. We waited 5 days for&nbsp;embryo transfer after&nbsp;the egg retrieval, and&nbsp;this is a very important fact because&nbsp;when you transfer the embryo in&nbsp;the blastocyst stage it means a more successful treatment. The process of embryo transfer is very precisely described on&nbsp;the clinic\u2019s website, but&nbsp;Dr. Olga emphasized that&nbsp;it would be painless, and&nbsp;it was. Within an hour after&nbsp;the embryo transfer, I felt a specific reaction in&nbsp;my stomach in&nbsp;a specific spot and&nbsp;that continued for&nbsp;the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>I was mistaken about mandatory immobilization after&nbsp;ET. Except for&nbsp;a short still period for&nbsp;about 20 minutes right after&nbsp;my transfer Dr. Olga said I could move freely. I want to specifically emphasize this because&nbsp;we had a long flight home through Moscow. They have very strict rules right now, but&nbsp;we were able to transport 80 injections in&nbsp;our carry-on. Even&nbsp;though&nbsp;it\u2019s against the regulations, thanks to a note from the clinic and&nbsp;the understanding of the airport personnel, it was no problem. They understood the importance of the injections, which&nbsp;prevented bleeding, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;my obsessive worry not to separate from my injections, which&nbsp;were not expensive but&nbsp;for&nbsp;us, they were very valuable medication. Fortunately, the bleeding did not occur. Today I remember our experience during the flight from Moscow fondly even&nbsp;though&nbsp;we went through turbulence almost the whole time. But&nbsp;those are now&nbsp;just beautiful memories. Now&nbsp;we are following pregnancy week by week. After&nbsp;our ultrasound that&nbsp;confirmed the pregnancy, we are happy to have our baby and&nbsp;jokingly we say that&nbsp;our baby is going to have a Russian heart and&nbsp;our soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a message I want to convey to everybody who wants to have a baby through egg donation: that miracles are possible and they don\u2019t happen just to other people&#8230;.During our embryo transfer we spent about 10 beautiful days in St. Petersburg, probabl<\/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>Thanks to the doctors of the Russian clinic - O.L.G.A. 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