Using donor eggs after having child with own eggs

Hi everyone, My husband and I have just been through our 3rd round of IVF. Rounds 1&3 we had nothing fresh to transfer (round 3 we transferred our frozen embryo from cycle 2 when it became apparent we wouldn’t have a fresh one and sadly it didn’t implant), round 2 resulted in our son. We are keen to start another round ASAP but I’m just not sure whether we’re “flogging a dead horse” trying to keep pursuing using my eggs. I am 35 and AMH is 3.7 so feel like time (and money!) is not on our side. Does anyone here have experience of having a child that came from their own eggs and partner’s sperm followed by a child that was made from either donor eggs/sperm or embryo? I’d love to chat and ask a few questions about what you experience has been if so 😀

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Hi! I had my IVF son with an AMH of 3.5 😆. So anything can happen. Now trying for number 2 my AMH is almost non existing 😢. We tried to do another collection and even though there were 8 follicles to start with, they collected no eggs (I’m 40 now). It sounds you can still try a few more rounds? I did 5 collections nd 7 transfers in total 😆 We are starting the process of egg donation so also looking for any information. Good luck to you !

@Cristina hi Cristina, thanks for your reply. I’m pleased to hear you were able to have your son despite all the rounds and heartache of failed cycles! What has made you change track to using donor eggs? Did your clinic advise it or did you feel like you’d given it enough attempts with your own eggs?

Thanks Anna. I am switching because the last collection I attempted resulted in 0 eggs retrieved. The doctor said we could try again but to be honest my AMH is very very low (around 0.7) so chances are very slim. I had hesitations about using donor eggs. However the cons are really not that important if you compare with finally having your baby 😊

My AMH was 2.5 and that test was carried about a year before the cycle that worked for me so was probably lower by that point x

@Cristina 0.7 is very low, I can totally understand your reasoning. How long will you have to wait until you can get started with a donor round? How very exciting!

@Dee hi Dee! Yeah I know 3.7 is low but obviously will continue to go lower but know of people who’ve had success with a lower AMH still. I still have hope that we can have another genetic child so don’t intend to switch to donor just yet but like contemplating all options. I’m curious as to what age/AMH/number of rounds people choose to switch to donor as I feel if money wasn’t an issue I’d happily do at least another 2 rounds with my own eggs (I say happily… I’m so bloody miserable and anxious from egg collection onwards!!) but wonder what made other women decide to switch

We had the bench mark of giving ourselves 6 rounds and if it hadn’t happened we were going to use a donor. It took 4 rounds x

Hi, I have very low AMH, I was diagnosed at 31. Mine was 0.09 (I’m in the US which I think goes by different measures than the UK). But we did 3 rounds of IVF. First round, resulted in one fertilized egg that stopped growing at day 3 (my clinic wanted day 5). Second round, nothing retrieved. Third round, one egg retrieved but was told it was “very abnormal” and they wouldn’t fertilize it. We also did a few IUIs throughout. After the 3rd failed IVF, we decided to do donor eggs. We just got the news that we have 4 embryos from our donor and I am just so happy to get some form of good news after such a long time of getting only bad news. I don’t think I would have ever gotten these results with my own eggs.

@Makayla thanks for your message, I’m so sorry to hear that your rounds with your own eggs didn’t work out. It’s so devastating going through all of that and to not get to transfer stage. I’m so pleased though that your round with donor eggs has so far shown some great results! Did you have much of a break between your 3rd round and donor round to think about it or did you dive straight in?

I had already been thinking seriously of donor eggs since after my 2nd cycle led to no retrieval at all. So after the 2nd cycle is when I actually started reaching out to the donor companies and looking at profiles. My partner and I decided to do one more IVF cycle with my own eggs. And after that 3rd one didn’t work, that’s when I officially matched a donor right away.