Frozen embryos

You could donate them to a couple, donate them to science, keep them or destroy them.
These are your options.
Me personally if I could I would donate to a couple or science.
It’s a very hard decision to make.
Congratulations x

Personally I’d keep them. A good friend of mine disposed of hers after a few years and now really regrets it as other factors in life changed and she’d have wanted more now

Finger cross our transfer last week sticks.
We plan on donating our remaining 4 to another couple. I don’t know what that process looks like, but I know it’s an option.

Omg I wrote the exact thing the other week we had an ivf boy in 2021 and fell pregnant naturally in 2022 I also have one left and no idea what to do with it and storage is due to be paid. We’ve said If one more happens amazing but ivf for us is done

I don't know which country you're in but what you are able to do with them will depend where you're located.

In the UK: You can keep embryos frozen for up to 55 years, but you have to re-consent every 10 years.

You cannot donate to a couple unless you had extra testing done before egg collection.

You can donate to science.

You can have a futile transfer (where they put them back in you but at a time it could never implant, although this is not common).

You could let them defrost and perish naturally.

Personally, I would donate any of ours left over to the clinic for the embryologists to practice on, they need to practice vital skills like biopsies and need embryos/blastocysts to do this with.

We originally signed the consent forms to donate any left over embryos we had to other couples shortly after I had my egg collection, my partner was reluctant at first but when he saw what I went through with egg collection (severe OHSS and a week in hospital with serious complications) he came round to the idea as he said he couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be to go through that and have no viable embryos at the end, I think it’s when the IVF really sunk in for him. For me I’d always said it would be something I would comfortably pursue if we were in the situation of needing donor embryos so it felt natural I’d also reciprocate if appropriate. We froze 11 embryos so were confident that we’d have some to donate, unfortunately we’ve ended up using all 11 embryos to achieve a single pregnancy that has gone beyond 10 weeks (currently 35 weeks) so we have nothing left.

To add, we also had no additional testing done above our standard IVF tests in order to consent to this and we were told it was a decision we’d be able to make later down the line if we wanted to x