Success Story No.25

JC has never read or even heard of my blog. She was requested by a VIP to contribute. The VIP has requested her to contribute couple of years ago and reminded her to contribute again recently.

The VIP wanted her to share her story in order to send out the following message:-

" DO NOT GIVE UP AFTER JUST ONE ROUND OF FAILED IVF"

Here is JC's story. She was young and no family history of infertility issue but just could not conceive. After some tests and scans, her doctor recommended her laparoscopy and found out that one of her tube has some problem. She was eager to get pregnant and decided to go ahead with IVF. She started with a big bang with 22 eggs retrieval and 14 were fertilised.

At 1st round, 2 embryos were implanted. A week later, she has high fever and it was dengue. The embryos were not able to survive this high temperature.

At 2nd round, 2 enbryos were implanted again. Then, she got a positive result but the blood test shown low HCG level and was requested to have a re-test few days later. Unfortunately, few days later she had a miscarriage due to ectopic pregnancy.

You could have imagine the emotional stress going through her from the 1st incident and now with the 2nd incident and with the thought that she will never have a baby.

Few months later, she was ready again for her 3rd round. We need to praise her for a never give up spirit here!

And this round, it is a POSITIVE and a few week later, during the first scan, 1st time ever she can see and hear, what she terms as the "most beautiful sound in the world" - the baby's heart beat.

Again, another amazing story!!

1. General Information :

Age Group : early 30's
Married for : 6 years
Currently pregnant : yes
No. of children :1

2. Treatment/Medical Background

Husband : Good Sperm Count
Wife : suspected Endometriosis and damaged tube
Name of Doctor/Clinic: Dr Prashant, KL Fertility Centre
Type of Treatment : IVF
No.of trial prior to success: 3 attempts but 2 attempts via frozen embryos
Approx. cost spent: rm 50, 000
Total of eggs retrieved: 22
Total of embryos developed: 14

3. Further information 

Blogspot : NIL
Email address : NIL

Success Story No.24

M, dropped me a line today and having the same situation (1 young toddler and expecting twins) as me and wanted some advice. I took the chance to ask her to contribute her story and she responded immediately to my request.

Thank you M and hope you have a joyful pregnancy and sail through the initial hurdle. It is not an easy job with close age siblings and twins!!

1. General Information :
           Age Group : mid 30's

           Married for :   10 years

           Currently pregnant :Yes

           No. of children : 1 and expecting twins

2. Treatment/Medical Background    

• Husband : Low morphology
• Wife : High FSH


Name of Doctor/Clinic: Dr. Prashant Nadkarni
• Type of Treatment : IVF


No.of trial prior to success: 2 IUIs, 2 IVFs (successful each time)
Approx. cost spent:RM40,000
Total of eggs retrieved : 6 eggs (first round)  9 eggs (second round)

 Total  of embryos developed: 5 embryos (first round) 5 embryos (second round)

Success Story No.23

CP is a relative of my friend. She has 2 miscarriages and longing for a baby but phobia with the miscarriage history. Most of her family members do not support her idea of trying to get pregnant with her history, her diet (vegetarian) and  financial situation. My friend is a relative to CP and knew about my issue and journey and manage to convince CP to make a visit to Dr.P for a 'diagnosis'. 

CP mainly suffers from PCOS problem with her irregular period and after consulting Dr.P, the way forward seems to be IVF. There was a few little hiccups but finally she got pregnant and expecting soon. 

1. General Information :

• Age Group : late 30's
• Married for :   10 years
• Currently pregnant :Yes
• No. of children : expecting soon

2. Treatment/Medical Background

• Husband : NIL
• Wife : PCOS 
Name of Doctor/Clinic: Dr.prashant nadkarni
• Type of Treatment : IVF
No.of trial prior to success:1
Approx. cost spent:RM17,000
Total of eggs retrieved : 10
Total  of embryos developed: 6

3. Further information (if available and do not mind being contacted (if you have no blogspot):

• Blogspot : 
• Email address :ping.323@hotmail.com

Success Story No.22

Thank you, Sandy for sharing your story.

A. General Information

1. Age group of couple : 38 (37 and 8 months at time of egg retrieval)
2. Married for : 13 years
3. Currently pregnant : Yes. (Expecting twins: 2 x day 5 embryos transferred)
4. No. of Children : None

B. Treatment/Medical Background 

1. Medical Issues : Wife : Not known issues  Husband : good sperm count, poor morphology, poor motility and forward progression.
2. Doctor / Clinic : Dr. Helena, KL Fertility Centre.
3. Type of Treatment : IVF
4. Nos. of Trial : lucky first IVF!
5. Approx. cost spent : 20K
6. Total no. of egg retrieved : 18
7. Total no. of embroys developed : 15 fertilised, but only 4 made it to good quality (day 5) blastocysts. 

C. Further Information

1. Blogspot : N/A
2. Email Address: N/A
3. Note: I highly recommend Dr Helena and the entire Team working at KL Fertility Centre - truly world class in every respect.

Success Story No.21

From the Star, Monday, 16 Sep 2013

Tengku Puan Pahang Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah posing with a pair of IVF newborn twins born to P. Kavitha, 35 and A. Aruleswaran, 41 at a hospital in Kuantan. Yet unnamed, the twins are 113rd and 114th babies to be born via IVF under the Tunku Azizah Fertility Foundation. With them is the twins' grandmother, P. Syesoda, 57.

Success Story No.20

Reen is the founder of FB- TTC Group Malaysia and TTC Association Malaysia. I noticed her when she became the follower of my blog but with a very sad and disappointing tag name of 'when empty arms become heavy burden'. Then, I started to follow her journey in 2011, she doesn't have an easy journey but she got great heart trying to help others 'TTCian' to share their journeys too. God bless her for her effort!

Again, she has an amazing journey. She has experienced ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, failed IVF/ICSI and cornual pregnancy and finally she got pregnant last September. Read her blog yourself, she recorded in details of the each experience/journey.

1. General Information :

• Age Group : 30
• Married for :    3 years
• Currently pregnant : Yes
• No. of children : No

2. Treatment/Medical Background

• Husband : Low Sperm Count
• Wife :PCOS, blocked tubes
• Name of Doctor/Clinic: Sunfert
• Type of Treatment : 2 IVF 
• Approx. cost spent: not known
• Total of follicles developed : 3

3. Further information 

• Blogspot : http://myarmsareempty.blogspot.com
• Email address : reenr83@yahoo.com

Success Story No.19

I received an email from Carol yesterday. Again, miracle does happen. This is her story.

 She got married in 2003 and was pregnant a year later.  However, it was short lived because it was an ectopic pregnancy.  The doctor had to remove her right tube. 

 

After another 2 years of clomid and no sign of pregnancy.  Between 2007 - 2008, she went through 2 failed IVFs and 2 failed FETs at DFC. 

In early 2009, the doctor wanted to remove the polyp and  2 days before the polypectomy, she bled heavily and the polyp had detached so no surgery needed.  

She was then scheduled for 3rd IVF attempt.  Her period didn't show up that month and upon scanning,  the doctor and herself were both amazed that she was pregnant naturally and she gave birth to her first son. 

After that, she managed to conceive again but had a miscarriage in 2010  she had a cornual pregnancy last month and the doctor had to remove her left tube. Cornual pregnancy is the most dangerous of ectopic pregnancies as it is on the uterus wall which can rupture and  the person could bleed to death.  

She is 39 this year and still have high hope and going to try for her 3rd and I assume, be final IVF attempt. I wish her the best.

1. General Information :

• Age Group : late 30's
• Married for :    9 years
• Currently pregnant : No
• No. of children : 1

2. Treatment/Medical Background

• Husband : Nil
• Wife :Polyp
• Name of Doctor/Clinic: DFC
• Type of Treatment : 2 IVF (however, manage to conceive naturally)
• Approx. cost spent: not known
• Total of follicles developed : not known

3. Further information 

• Blogspot : Nil
• Email address : N/A