IVF Day 1 Consult

 7/22/25

I had my consult with IVF doctor this week. It was mostly informative. I went alone, Kevin was gone for three days with friends from work. Really he went over risks, potential that egg quantity and quality may be low or not viable, and numbers concerns about missing chromosomes/problems with embryos for my age. I already knew this. It sounded more discouraging. I mean he talked about the capability to test each embryo for to find out ahead of time if there would be concerns, and at that point be able to decide what to do. I don’t want to play God. I want a healthy child, but it seems terrible to be able to know and then make a decision. I know that I don’t have to have the testing done, but if they do test and there are some that are healthy and others not, I would choose to have the healthy embryos implanted. He also talked about the possibility of doing a fresh implant vs a frozen implant. Frozen we can do the testing. Fresh we cannot. But there is a better chance from embryos to survive by doing a fresh transfer. I do not like all the options that make this all more robotic instead of natural. We are right now moving forward. I am have three medications that I am starting orally. I am overwhelmed with the addition of medications. I already feel like I am taking so many things. I think I am about at 11 pills currently daily. Adding three more is so overwhelming. Two of them have to be taken three times a day. All in all I know this is not a huge deal, but it feels impossible to me. In three weeks I have lab work and an ultrasound scheduled.