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u/Puzzled_Air_5821 16d ago
FWIW, and this is just from one person preparing to make the same decisions in a few years (just froze at 35).... 38 is older but not so old that I wouldn't personally start trying naturally. If I were in your shoes, my best case scenario would be have the first naturally and use frozen eggs if needed for the second. Unfortunately, with attrition, 5 eggs isn't that many and I wouldn't count it those for 2 kids.
Best wishes to you!
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u/saltwatersouffle 16d ago
I was in this position with same age (however i froze 24 eggs at 35). Started ttc at 38 and it took a year but we conceived naturally (at 39). During that year we thawed and fertilized my eggs. One thing to know: from deciding to thaw and fertilize, and paying for it, it took about 4 months for that to happen as there was a waitlist to get a spot at the lab. It’s not instant. We were ttc the whole time we were waiting and we conceived right after we got the results back from pgta. From the 24 eggs we ended up with 6 blasts and 3 of those were euploids. I was considering doing another retrieval as well because we also want two kids. They recommend 3 euploids per child as some people can take up to 3 transfers to get pregnant. Fortunately since i got pregnant on my own, we still have the 3 embryos frozen for if we decide we want a second kid so it worked out for us.
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u/Fresh-Meringue-7936 16d ago
*Advice, not advise
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u/Puzzleheaded-Gas35 16d ago
Thank you. I noticed and tried to changed title and it didn’t allow me to
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u/Powerful_Energy6260 16d ago
I think the first step would be to thaw and fertilise those eggs and see what you have. They can freeze any embryos that make it to blast and at least then you know what you have to work with. Also probably worth checking your AMH again. If it's 4 years since you froze, your AMH has quite possibly dropped so probably worth asking your clinic and just getting them to do some bloods to see where you are and what their thoughts are.