1) RO who will be 47 in 1 month and is 1 1/2 weeks pregnant from a Femara-only Mini-IVF cycle. Someone actually just posted a reply to one of our previous links to ask about success stories for women in this age group!

2) EF, 36 y/o, having 1st baby from a D2 fresh embryo transfer from Clomid-only Mini-IVF. Pt had 10 eggs retrieved and 4 went to blastocyst. Retrospectively, pt was at significant risk for hyperstimulation and was definitely at risk for multiple gestation at any other IVF center. With our low medication protocol and single embryo transfers she ran niether of these risks.

3) AH will be 41 y/o, conceived her 2nd baby from a blastocyst frozen embryo transfer during a Clomid-only Mini-IVF cycle. She had a baseline FSH as high as 43 and was only able to produce 2 eggs max per cycle.

4) Graduated AA today, 41 y/o, 1st baby with IVF. Became pregnant from a frozen blastocyst transfer in a Natural cycle from an embryo created from a previous Mini-IVF embryo. She came to us after multiple failed IUI’s at another leading IVF center.

A clinical trial, to be launched at Manhattan hospital next month will look into ways that you could preserve the fertility of infant boys who are, for a variety of reasons, at risk for losing their fertility before they are even old enough to produce sperm. The study involves removing testicular tissue from patients who are as young as 1-year-old and freezing it with the hopes that down the road they would be able to create sperm from the frozen tissue.

A pediatric oncologist from the hospital was quoted as saying that, “Up until now, the option of preserving fertility for little boys going through chemotherapy were minimal to none… [the current procedure] is not complicated, but it is experimental… we don’t know yet that it will achieve the promise it holds.” There may soon be a way to get around this.

The study falls into the larger category of what is known as oncofertility, a growing field that looks at cancer and fertility and is not the first center to do this. Doctors in Pittsburgh have already begun freezing testicular tissue in boys earlier this year.

We have a lot of successes recently and we are very happy!

1) NN came to NHFC in December 2010 at the age of 36 with secondary infertility. She completed one IVF cycle with gender selection for XY. She had a frozen embyo transfer on March 8, 2011 and a positive pregnancy test on March 15, 2011, graduated with us on April 19, 2011.

2) YL came to NHFC in September 2010 at the age of 27 with secondary infertility. She completed two IUI cycles and got pregnant on the second IUI cycle in March 2011. She also graduated with us April 19, 2011.

3) MK came to NHFC in January 2011 at the age of 35 with secondary infertility. She completed one Mini IVF cycle and had a frozen embryo transfer on March 6, 2011 with 1xD5. She had her first positive pregnancy test on March 14, 2011 and graduated on April 20, 2011.

4) IP, 38 y/o, is pregnant with her 2nd baby from a natural cycle frozen blastocyst transfer. The embryo was created from clomid only Mini-IVF cycle in August that was transferred in March. The patient was seeing reproductive specialist of NY on long island before coming to New Hope. Her peak d3 FSH level was documented as 24.

5) SK 28 y/o, is pregnant with her 1st baby through clomid timed intercourse.

6) CC, 40 y/o, is pregnant with her 2nd baby from a natural cycle blastocyst frozen embryo transfer. The embryo was created from clomid-only Mini-IVF in 8/10 and transferred 3/11 with a peak FSH of 43.

7) CL, 39 y/o, is pregnant with her first baby from a natural cycle frozen blastocyst transfer using natural IVF (no meds). Her peak FSH was 20 and she had previous failed IVF treatments at Genesis and the Cooper Institute.

Congrats to some recent success stories at New Hope Fertility Center!

1. BP came to NHFC in Novemeber 2010 at the age of 30 with secondary
infertility. She completed one natural IVF cycle with a D3 (12b) fresh
transfer. She had a positive pregancy test on March 14, 2011 and graduated with
us on April 14, 2011.

2. JA, 32 y/o, 2nd NHFC pregnancy. Conceived from D2 Embryo Transfer using a Clomid Mini-IVF cycle. Two conventional IVF cycles had been cancelled at IRMS (ST Barnabas Hospital, NJ) prior to coming to New hope.

3. SR, 38 y/o, 1st pregnancy conceived from blastocyst frozen embryo transfer from a Clomid Mini-IVF cycle. Male factor was the primary issue. She had a history of 1 failed conventional IVF cycle and 1 cancelled conventional IVF cycle at Columbia prior to coming to us.

4. GG graduated to OB/GYN yesterday. 36 y/o, first baby conceived from timed intercourse!

5. YC, 43 y/o, first babies from a twin pregnancy resulting from a 2 embryo transfer (we always counsel against, but they insisted) from frozen donor oocytes. YC had a history of eight failed IVF cycles at RMA prior to coming to NHFC. She did not try with her own eggs at NHFC.

6. WQ, 33 y/o, first baby from blastocyst frozen embryo transfer with a Clomid only Mini-IVF cycle.

7. SB was just graduated to an OB/GYN. First baby through timed intercourse and close monitoring — she had a Baseline FSH level that was as high as 36.

8. AS graduated on Monday. Will be 42 y/o and is having her 2nd New Hope baby from a natural cycle frozen blastocyst transfer of an embryo created with clomid only Mini-IVF.

A recent study from a fertility clinic in Cyprus completed research that adds to a growing body of work legitimizing frozen embryos as a equal if not superior method for getting women pregnant with IVF. New Hope has been talking and writing extensively

Of the participants in the study, 47 percent of the women who used frozen embryos gave birth compared to 41 percent. Although the percent for births with frozen embryos was higher, the different wasn’t statistically significant, so the study could only claim that the chances of getting pregnant with fresh and frozen embryos was the same. However, because freezing technology is advancing faster than people can change their mindsets, even calling the two methods “equal” is a significant statement to make, as there are still many physicians out there who are skeptical of the ability for people to successfully freeze and thaw eggs without damaging the cells (as was a big risk with older methods for freezing eggs/embryos).

Moreover, while clinics like our own, who are quite adept at utilizing the newest in freezing technology to enhance their IVF procedure outcome, can get significantly higher pregnancy rates with freezing (because the uterine environment can be optimally prepared without the time constraints of embryonic development in real-time, frozen eggs could be a superior method for many reproductive treatments simply for the convenience they allow. As one example, with donor programs that use egg freezing there is no longer the need for donors and recipients to cycle with each other in order to make the donation — eggs can be frozen and banked (stored) for a future date when they are needed.