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IVF at 44

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

CHAPTER

How to Retrieve Eggs at Home

"I've retrieved mostly when I was 42, so for a two year old egg, or like maybe one in 10 or one in 20 might actually make a baby. So it's a lot of, yeah, self injections at home and going to the office and getting an ultrasound," she said. "You build up hope and then you're just let down where it's almost like an early miscarriage." She continued: "So we had to go through and choose a donor and they like and basically compensate to be able to get her eggs".

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