{"id":7064,"date":"2017-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:58:05","slug":"ivf-birth-baby-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/success-stories\/ivf-birth-baby-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"All went fine in the end and I gave birth to a wonderful baby boy in spring 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I promised myself that&nbsp;if&nbsp;I ever succeed in&nbsp;getting pregnant and&nbsp;giving birth, after&nbsp;the numerous IVF cycles that&nbsp;I have gone through since&nbsp;2012, I would write about my positive experiences for&nbsp;encouragement to others. Now&nbsp;in 2017 I am finally able to do this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My story is a long one, but&nbsp;luckily it has a happy ending. I started my journey to become a mother when&nbsp;I was 42 years old. I knew that&nbsp;this was already late, but&nbsp;life does not always go according to our plans. However, encouraged by many women who&nbsp;have managed to get pregnant in&nbsp;their 40s, I was hopeful and&nbsp;not too concerned.<\/p>\n<p>I started with two IUI treatments and&nbsp;one stimulated IVF cycle in&nbsp;Copenhagen, and&nbsp;continued the next year with another stimulated IVF cycle in&nbsp;Athens. My body did not respond well to the stimulation medicines, and&nbsp;I decided to continue with natural cycle IVF. I had further ten attempts of IVF with my own eggs, but&nbsp;although&nbsp;my blood tests were fine and&nbsp;the fertilized eggs seemed good at&nbsp;the time of the embryo transfers, all attempts ended in&nbsp;failure.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;2016, I started to accept the fact that&nbsp;my own eggs were too old and&nbsp;I could not get pregnant in&nbsp;this way. I started looking for&nbsp;possibilities to use a donated egg. At&nbsp;first, this idea felt scary, but&nbsp;little by little, with the encouragement of my husband who&nbsp;is adopted himself, I became fine with it. My only regret now&nbsp;is that&nbsp;I did not make this decision earlier!<\/p>\n<p>Because&nbsp;of my husband\u2019s background as&nbsp;an adopted child who&nbsp;does not know anything about his genetic background, we decided to look for&nbsp;an IVF clinic, which&nbsp;provided&nbsp;as&nbsp;much information about the egg donors as&nbsp;possible, while&nbsp;them still being anonymous. Since&nbsp;my husband would have liked to know some basic facts about his genetic origins, but&nbsp;was never given this possibility, we wanted to give this opportunity to our child. Hence finding the clinic in&nbsp;St Petersburg, with its extensive and&nbsp;detailed donor database was ideal for&nbsp;us!<\/p>\n<p>We contacted Dr Olga&#8217;s team in&nbsp;the spring of 2016 and&nbsp;found a perfect donor from their excellent database. The same summer we made two trips to St Petersburg; one for&nbsp;the initial appointment and&nbsp;various tests and&nbsp;another for&nbsp;the embryo transfer. We had one coordinator arranging everything before&nbsp;going to St Petersburg and&nbsp;another when&nbsp;the treatment started properly. Everything was arranged with great professionalism, and&nbsp;all our queries were answered promptly and&nbsp;thoroughly. We also used donated sperm (with extended anonymous profile) from Cryos Denmark, which&nbsp;was transported to St Petersburg with the help of the clinic. After&nbsp;the embryo transfer, we got detailed instructions how to take the medicines and&nbsp;how to deal with possible problems.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky to become pregnant in&nbsp;our first attempt! However, the pregnancy was not easy, and&nbsp;I started bleeding early on. The nurses from Dr Olga&#8217;s team assured that&nbsp;there is still hope and&nbsp;that I only had to increase the dosage of medicines and&nbsp;follow carefully their instructions. All went fine in&nbsp;the end and&nbsp;I gave birth to a wonderful baby boy in&nbsp;spring 2017!<\/p>\n<p>After&nbsp;my long struggle with IVF cycles, I would like to encourage women who&nbsp;are longing to have a child, but&nbsp;struggling to get pregnant with their own eggs, to choose egg donation. I wish that&nbsp;I had done it earlier, and&nbsp;saved myself from prolonged stress and&nbsp;sadness. My little boy is as&nbsp;much mine as&nbsp;he would have been, if&nbsp;conceived with my own egg. We are going to tell him about his background one day, and&nbsp;we are confident that&nbsp;he will value the detailed information about his genetic origins.<\/p>\n<p>We would wholeheartedly like to thank Dr Olga and&nbsp;Dr Alena, our coordinators Anna and&nbsp;Tamsin, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;Katia and&nbsp;all the nurses for&nbsp;their exceptional care and&nbsp;help at&nbsp;their clinic in&nbsp;St Petersburg! And&nbsp;we are forever thankful to our egg donor, whose kind act made my motherhood possible!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my long struggle with IVF cycles, I would like to encourage women who are longing to have a child, but struggling to get pregnant with their own eggs, to choose egg donation. 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