It was a difficult decision to decide how many embryos to transfer, since we initially decided to transfer two when planning the IVF process, but we recently changed our minds and had just a single embryo transfered this morning. There are several factors that played into our final decision, but we have had a good experience with the IVF process (very few side effects from the drugs and success in getting a good number of eggs) and research indicated that success for women 35 and younger (me for a few more months!) is pretty high at 47%. We have the opportunity to try again if this round doesn't work, which gave us some comfort. So we decided why risk a high risk pregnancy the first time, when there is a strong possibility that even this embryo could split?
My comfort level was higher in not getting pregnant vs. thinking about having a multiple birth pregnancy that could be triplets or quads. The down side to transferring only one embryo is a lower success rate. We also have two embryos left that didn't get transfered. They will continue to cultivate and they will check on them in two days. If they are still thriving, they will call us and we can freeze them if we need them for the future.
This quandary is the high price to pay for the high-tech world of baby-making. Ultimately we want to have healthy, happy babies: one baby, twins or even more if that happened. But multiples can come at a high price: physically to the babies and mother and also financially for the family. This has been the most difficult part of the entire process for us, really trying to make sense of it. Natural pregnancies don't come with this decision process but twins and even triplets are a happy, unexpected surprise. We are hoping for our happy surprise next Wednesday!
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