Err... you successfully conceived and delivered? But your ID shows that you are a dude.... 

Anyway, just a FYI that our fresh cycle ET (embryo transplant) was not successful at KL Fertility this round, results came back negative. Guess we will try again, since we have 5 embryos frozen at KL Fertility.
Got 3 more chances to get it right, so hopefully it will turn out better next round. However, with that said, the overall experience at KL Fertility was excellent, Dr Helena is very attentive and caring to my wife, so my wife is happy to continue her frozen cycle at KL Fertility when the time has come...

I used my husband account. So sorry to heard this bad news. My first round also failed, I succeed at second time (FET). FET sucess rate better than fresh because is natural cycle, no hormone injection etc. Dr Helena is my gynae till delivered because she is such lovely and caring gynae although her charge is not cheap.

Their package is 17k up to blood test to confirm pregnancy. Storage fee is another cost. I spend almost 25k to conceived. This included pre ivf package kind testing and consulation, ivf fresh cycle 17k, embryo storage fee and frozen embryo transfer 3.5k

I do 2 time, first is ivf second round is fet. Ivf package is 17k, frozen embryo cost 1.8k and frozen embryo transfer cost 3.5k and consultation/blood test prior start ivf. If you have extra embryo to freeze, you just need to pay storage fee and embryo transfer fee for next trial. I pray so hard wish to have good quality and extra embryo to freeze so I no need to spend another 17k.

SMC cost is cheaper than kl fertility. The bad thing is dr Wong too busy and always long waiting time. My friend suceess to conceived for her first ivf under dr Wong.

Thank you all for your kind words.

Megane5439,
My wife and I have only met 2 doctors, Dr. Menon and Dr. Leong (Alpha Fertility). Both are excellent, however Dr. Menon does not do IVF anymore. I can't say for anyone else, but I'm sure all of them are exceptional in their fields! Go with any doctor whom you feel comfortable asking questions to.

If you are thinking of doing IVF, usually the hospitals would have IVF counselling, ask anything there. No holds barred! Mentally, I guess you would need to be prepared to do more than 1 round of IVF. Always hope for the best, though. You will start having sleepless nights thinking about "will it work?", "what if it doesn't?", "It's going to be very expensive", "how do we keep our spirits up?". I know, currently going through that.

Meditation, prayer, being around friends  and even focusing your energy on your work or any other activities does help, albeit temporarily. Just remember, once it works, looking back 1 or 2 years, it would all be worth it.

Stay positive and happy always!

Nitrous,

Thank you for your advice, it couldn't be truer! Families can be really toxic at times, I can totally relate. My wife shed a tear when we read that your IVF cycles didn't work, we wish you all the luck in the world for the next.
We'll be starting our first cycle on the 15th, so we're nervous, hopeful and scared.

We'll update more once we start.

Unstable as in like you don't know which is Day 1 or Day 2?
Sorry, can't help here as this is out of my knowledge area for IVF, my wife always know when Day 1 is (I always assumed women will know this something to do with using a different kind of sanitary pads, but that is just the lame old me).
Yes, you would need to go to visit the doc on Day 2, to scan for availability of the eggs for that month (the doc would estimate the no of eggs to be produced). Try to check with the gynae for her advise.
Good Luck in your IVF!

I have managed to attach under dr.halena previously during my OBGYN posting and i reckon she is very good in what she is doing. She takes her time to explain what is needed and things are taken one step at a time. For those with high risk pregnancy they do work together with FMGC at jaya one, whereby there are three fetal medicine consultants, dr. Raman, dr. Patrick chia, and dr. Yap. They are good in managing high risk cases such as those high maternal age, hypertension diseases in pregnancies and so on. As for dato prashant, we have a nickname for him, he is the god father of fertility. He is the first in malaysia being trained in the UK specifically for fertility.
What I have said above are only my personal view as dr halena and dr raman were my mentors previously and they are highly regarded in their own field of subspecialty.

No issues about that. At the mean time, do prepare yourself by supplementation with folic acid, vitamin D and calcium. Vitamin D is better absorbed in the morning due to low iron meal in our society.

Do visit her website and wish you best of luck in your pregnancy and to mothers out there.

https://drhelenalim.com
Regards,
Koh

Unstable as in like you don't know which is Day 1 or Day 2?
Sorry, can't help here as this is out of my knowledge area for IVF, my wife always know when Day 1 is (I always assumed women will know this something to do with using a different kind of sanitary pads, but that is just the lame old me).
Yes, you would need to go to visit the doc on Day 2, to scan for availability of the eggs for that month (the doc would estimate the no of eggs to be produced). Try to check with the gynae for her advise.
Good Luck in your IVF!

I used my husband account. So sorry to heard this bad news. My first round also failed, I succeed at second time (FET). FET sucess rate better than fresh because is natural cycle, no hormone injection etc. Dr Helena is my gynae till delivered because she is such lovely and caring gynae although her charge is not cheap.

My wife was under Dato' Prashant and not Halena, so I can only comment on KL Fertility experience.

OK, blood test, they will draw some blood from the wife and test... usually for hormones to ensure the hormones are level. Its located IIANM, level 3 same building. Will have do this quite often and my wife hated it as rrr.had a bad exriance in drwing blood.

Once the blood test is OK, the course commence where you have to take injections for 10 days, same time everyday. I remember during early mornings I had to jab my wife..lol...blur blur..wife face so scared..kekeke...but after a few times you will be fine. There are 2 types of injection..once is synthetic, comes in like a diabetic pen style injector, the other more old school ..have to mix 2 vials and then inject using a small syringe, everyday also. The first one is much easier to work with.

After taking injections..just before the eggs extraction, got 2 extra injections that have to take. Those are rather big syringes... But luckily only 2. The egg extraction is done in same building and its actually quite quick. Will go under anesthetic..and the whole extraction process took like 1 hour. Wife was blur after coming out..so need some time to rest after that. Overall its a half day process. Normally according to Prashant, he takes about 8-10 really good sized eggs. Once extracted and inseminated, you will have 2 choices..either..to implant on 3rd day or wait till next month for the body to heal up. Best is to consult Dr Halena which is best. We tried both and I wont tell you which work. . Additional eggs/embryos can be frozen (additional charges apply). Best is to freeze the better ones, i.e day 5 blastocyst. 

After implant, I remember wife had to take some pills ...and insert also. About 10 days later....you will have to go do a urine test. If positive, you do blood test to confirm. If negative......just remember its not the end of the world. Miracles happens in many ways.

Good luck and I am sure you are probably in the best hands in this field. Which reminds me I have to send a thank you not to KL Fertility as my boy is due next 3 weeks.

My wife had 2 cycles. 1st cycles had 8 eggs only 2 were good transferred after 3 days. results negative. Second cycle, had 14 eggs, 6 eggs made it after day 5. ET 2 after 1 month , i.e frozen transfer. result- positive.

Draw you own conclusion le.

caveat- 2nd cycle we had different injections and had TMC supplements. TMC said wife womb was cold so needed supplements.

Yes ..my wife and I did 2 rounds of IVQ.

All I can say is..we asked the question- would freezing method have a better chance. Answer: No direct answer, but both are viable. The plus point of 1 month transfer is that wife has time to recover from the extraction. Maybe mentally better prepared kua more relax and better chance?.

Just to let you know...egg quality and sperm quality also plays a part. Doesn't mean when u extract 10 eggs ..all 10 eggs can be viable for transfer. depends on luck if the eggs mature past 3 days. % days will be best..but I think for fresh transfer 3 days is the time frame. 

It is expensive the process..and I wish you all the luck. Before you start ..relax, have a good diet...quit smoke/booze and unhealthy food (coffee also restricted ). That's what they keep telling us. You will be given folic acid as supplement. Also if your vit D is low, Vit D supplement via drops.

Not an problem..as I was also blur when I did it with my wife. Its good to share such info around. Hope 1 day maybe you can help someone also.

Yes, the package is for 1 cycle only. 1 cycle means all your eggs used up. If you fail that's it. I don't know if extra charges incurred if you try more than 1 time implant. My case .. first cycle we only had 1 implant due to the fact we had 2 good eggs nia. Second cycle, we were successful at the first try. I know the subsequent implant will be charged at about 4k each time for the eggs kept frozen.

There will be a token discount if you decide to try again if 1st cycle fails.(duno if Halena practice it..but Prashant did).

As for experience, I can give a hubby view nia. Initially Wife did say the injections are quite painful. The trick is to make sure the syringe is at 90', straight in lo. There will be some side effect like bloating and so on, so bear with it. Remember to take it at same time lo..the nurses at KLMC is very friendly and able to guide you guys on how to take injections. You will go back to KLMC for checks and see the progress, where they will ultra scan you to see how many eggs are there. Once 14 days over, you will go to downstairs to do the extraction. There will be a room, and hubby is required to donate his sperm also that day....you will be anesthetized. and egg extraction takes about 1 hour nia. After that, rest abit and balik. They will ask you if you want to transfer fresh or later. If later, they will calculate the next fertile date and ask you come back lo.

It actually a quick process as it went by quickly for me. Don't worry too much, you are in great hands...I have great faith in KLFC people. The queue may be abit long, but overall the people there are great. Most importantly, don't worry too much..and don't put too much pressure on yourself. When our 1st cycle failed, my wife was devastated, but like I said and I believe miracles comes in its own way.

Feel free to ask anymore questions ya...

Blastocyst is actually a 5-day old fertilized egg, where the embryo forms a ball and the ball is almost ready for implant (hatching), in which the inner mass will become the foetus. We have had failures (twice) for 3-day old embryos, hence we would like to go for blastocyst transfer instead this round, as the embryos would have grown significantly with that additional 2 days (and hopefully more robust) and is almost ready for implantation.
The drawback, is that a lot of fertilized embryos do not survive past the 3-days mark in the lab and become a blastocyst. At the end of the day, the lab's petri dish is never a match to a women's uterus, and the women's body is vastly superior compared to the lab's test tubes, thus chances of the embryo surviving inside the body is much higher than on a petri dish.
I do not know how much extra would a blastocyst transfer cost, we will know when we start our ET.  As for yourself, my suggestion to you is to listen to Dr Helena, and seek her advise on your ET preference, as each case is different and she will definitely want the best for you.
Hope this helps...