Anyone do IVF without genetic testing prior to Implantation?

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Hi, So I had my final IVF consult and the dr told us she doesn’t think genetic testing is necessary... I’ve never known anyone who hasn’t done it.. I’m 28 and she said due to my age and results, anything the makes it to day 5 will probably be a good embryo. She said they usually recommend genetic testing for women in their 30s. She informed us it was up to us if we still wanted to , but she doesn’t see it as a necessary if we wanted to save $$ My husband doesn’t want to do it now, says we should leave something to god throughout this process .. he also said in a normal pregnancy, we wouldn’t do it until after pregnancy anyways- which is true. Anyone else do IVF without any genetic testing? Should I be worried?

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My doctor said the same to us since we’re under 30 as well. We felt like regardless we’d transfer the babies that survived so it didn’t matter.. I’ve also read that people tend to not transfer ones with bad grades but that they more than often turn out to be beautiful healthy children. The PGS testing is not an exact science. That being said we only ended up with one surviving to day 6 out of the 10 eggs we had and we are transferring on Monday so it really would’ve been a waste for us since we only got one anyway! The only upside if this works and we do another round for baby #2 is maybe we would do it to find out gender other than that I don’t think we’ll waste our money!

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My doctor said the same to us. I was 27 at the time with no prior losses. Infertility due to PCOS. We got 2 embryos and didnt do genetic testing. Transferred 1 in February. I am currently holding our 6 week old little man. Healthy, full term pregnancy and healthy baby boy 👶

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No testing. 3rd round of icsi stuck and have a girl!

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I am 32 and got two embryos last cycle-no pgs. Did a fresh transfer, and got pregnant. It turned into a blighted ovum due to the embryo being abnormal. My doc still doesn’t recommend pgs because with the low number of embryos I produce due to low AMH, i don’t want to risk pgs saying an embryo is bad when it might actually be okay (this happens sometimes). This upcoming retrieval, I even have pgs paid for my insurance, and I still won’t do it until I get more than 4 embryos. As devastating as my loss was, I’d rather go through that than potentially throw out a good embryo. So it’s not bad your doc doesn’t want to do it-I don’t think docs should always automatically do jt. Fertility IQ has some good info about the pros and cons of PGS that I thought was very fair.

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We did not do PGS/PGD testing. My doctor recommended not doing it because of age (29 at the time), and we had no prior losses. We did IVF for MFI, and our doctor said he wouldn’t put out the extra money in our situation. We only had one embryo, so in the end, we wouldn’t have done the testing anyway after getting just one, but that embryo did successfully implant and is now my almost 2.5 year old!

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Honestly, I would do genetic testing if you get more than 4-5 blasts. I was only 27 and wasn’t advised to do genetic testing either but we had 9 embryos make it to day 5 so we did PGS. Despite me being 27 and my husband being 28, 4 out of 9 tested normal. I think the more you have, the more likely there are abnormal embryos. 5 abnormal embryos was a very high chance of us transferring multiple abnormal ones resulting in BFN or miscarriage, not to mention so much potential heartache. Now if we had just 3 blasts or so, then maybe not worth the PGS testing. Our first FET resulted in BFP btw!

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I didn’t do the PGS/PGD testing because it adds 5 weeks to the cycles at my clinic and my insurance doesn’t cover it. It’s 3,000 out of pocket. My doctor didn’t think I need it at 31, so you definitely don’t need it. It would be great if you don’t have to pay for it and you don’t mind the wait. You get to find out the sex of the embryos so that’s a benefit of the testing. You should still genetic testing on you and your partner to see if you are both carriers for the same things.

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I didn't do testing and my eggs were retrieved at age 34 and I have a history of recurrent pregnancy loss. We elected not to pgs test because we simply couldn't afford it. We transferred 2 on our first try (frozen, we skipped fresh) and I'm currently 36+1 with a healthy little girl! My bestfriend also did not do pgs testing at age 36, transferred 2 fresh, and currently has a super cute 3 year old son as a result.

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We didn’t have any issues and we were young and out of 6 embryos that all looked great only 3 came back pgs normal I transferred one of the pgs normal and she sticked. I think it is worth it and if your already spending the money why not include this too. I wanted to know the genders and make sure they were genetically normal to prevent early losses

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I have low AMH so i have limited eggs and they get frozen on day 3. My doctor was very honest and gave us all the pros and cons about pgs testing and let us decide for ourselves. She basically said that pgs testing can cause damage to embryos, is expensive, doesnt always guarantee a successful pregnancy and is not always correct.   And also because i have such a low egg reserve the odds of my eggs making it to day 5 were not too great. Im also 30 years old.

Anyone do IVF without genetic testing prior to Implantation?

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