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Good Morning,

I hope you are both well and had a great Christmas and New Year.

We are both delighted to send you the attached pictures our beautiful baby girl O. D. - Born on 11/11/15 (38 weeks and 1 day), weighing in at 3 kgs and absolutely perfect! She is doing fantastically well and is now 9 weeks old :-) 

This is just a quick e-mail to say THANKS SO MUCH for everything! From our very first correspondence to when we left Athens, the whole team at Embio have been absolutely great and we cannot thank you enough for providing our miracle baby girl to us! 

A special thank you to S. for always being there for us with any of our numerous questions and being a welcoming friendly face to us when we came to Athens. We have already recommended Embio to a couple of friends who are very interested given our success and miracle baby!

THANKS AGAIN!

Kindest Regards

B&J and baby

I started spotting late October. After one month, I told my gynecologist and he tested me twice with an ultrasound (after he made sure this wasn't a hormone problem).

The ultrasound showed nothing, but the spotting wouldn't stop. Some days there was none at all, other days some yellow brown discharge. He told me that if it didn't stop completely, he'd test me with hysteroscopy. He said I wouldn't be given general anesthesia, just a light sleep.

I said, what the heck? First of all, because spotting was getting on my nerves, and then I needed to know if everything was alright, and yes... work out without seeing those annoying period spots.

Next thing I remember is waking up feeling starving. No pain whatsoever. The "perp" was a small uterine polyp. Right across me there was a lady who had just had an embryo transfer, and said it was the first time she felt no pain either at EMBIO with Dr Paraschos, whereas the other 2 transfers she had had before at another fertility clinic had caused intense pain. As for me, I was just told not to drive home, but since I felt OK, I did anyway.

Next day I was back to work and nobody knew a thing. Dr Paraschos had told me I would have some blood that would last a few days. Actually, I kept bleeding less and less for 9 days. And now all I have to say is thank God I'm completely spotless no matter how hard I work out.

My advice is if you have spotting in between periods, don't be scared. Just talk to your gyno and find out what causes it.

In Canada if you are pregnant over 35 you have to do a lot of tests to convince your doctor to keep the baby. I had to abort my baby at 6 months of pregnancy because she had a heart problem and the doctors insisted that I have an abortion. Because in Canada they make it very difficult for you to operate on a baby.

But a friend of mine kept her twins that the doctors had told her to abort, and now the twins are in the hospital but they are still alive. They call you every day to convince you to have an abortion. The pressure is too much. First they convince you to take the amnio and then they tell  you your baby will have Down Syndrome and things like that.

If I'm pregnant now I will never listen to them and take an amnio test. I have a 40 year old friend. The doctors did everything to convince her to have an abortion. She refused and now she has her baby totally healthy. She told me if she had heard their advice she would have lost her baby.

I will never never ever take the amnio if I get pregnant now. If it is a sick baby, I will keep it.  Any baby will be my baby!

We came to Embio for Tandem IVF. I’m a doctor in Emergency Medicine.

After I consulted Dr Paraschos online he introduced the IVF coordinator and then we kept in touch with both. The IVF coordinator was very helpful. She arranged for the prescriptions and we got all medications in the UK. I started taking them and in the middle of the cycle we came to Athens, and then they started doing the scans. The first scan we did in the UK and continued the scans at Embio for free. Embio does all the scans for free!

Then I had my egg collection including my eggs and the donor’s. Today I had the embryo transfer. It was very nice. I feel very relaxed. Every day we were seeing Doctor Paraschos and IVF coordinator, very nice.

We asked the IVF coordinator to give us some clues for accommodation and she helped us to find an apartment not far from the clinic. We are planning to stay for some days more to have some rest. We’ve been to the Acropolis Museum, very nice place, a lot of things to see.

I’m 50. We were interested for egg donation. I don’t have any other children. Embio clinic is perfect. A nice place to be when someone wants to conceive a baby. When we checked on the internet we made a contact with the IVF coordinator and she sounded so positive. We were worried that when we went there they’d say they can’t help us.  But they told us that they would try.

The treatment was not difficult at all. The embryo transfer was OK, everything went fine. No pain, but I felt very sentimental.

The first time we came we stayed for three days to discuss with the Doctor and decide on the first medication. We could do that from Sweden but we decided to go to Embio for that. Three weeks later we came again and stayed for four days.

The clinic looks very professional, very clean, very modern, to be honest, much better than I expected.

The clinic is not far from the airport. It’s very easy to come here. We stayed at a hotel nearby and we can go on foot to the clinic.

Everything was OK. We would recommend Embio and Dr Paraschos to everyone who wants to have a baby via egg donation.

In Greece you can have donor egg IVF with fresh eggs. In Canada we have to buy frozen eggs.

Here at EmBIO (in Athens) we could have fresh eggs. But even if you want to buy frozen eggs in Canada, you cannot. You have to buy them from the United States and it’s almost 20,000 Canadian dollars for 6 eggs. Imagine I did that 4 times in Canada and in 2 IVF cycles there was no embryo.

So it’s also a matter of cost for a donor egg IVF treatment.

Here at EMBIO the egg donor had 15 eggs and when they were fertilized we had 6 embryos, 3 of which were of good quality and one of Grade 2, i.e. not so good quality.

The first thing that brought me to EmBIO in Greece, was that I could see it looked professional. I emailed, and Eleni (the IVF coordinator) was so sweet and answered me so quickly. The staff speaks both English and French.

One of the other things was the 70% success rate. What’s more, at a Greek IVF centre you can transfer 3 embryos. In Canada it’s only one embryo per transfer.

The chances for success will be higher here at EmBIO for me to get pregnant. 

We enjoyed our time in this beautiful country. We arrived on the 15^th of September and we are leaving on the 25^th. We could have managed in a shorter time, one week would be enough. We have a direct flight from Montreal to Athens, so it’s easy to come and easy to leave.

All the employees here at EMBIO are really nice people.

 

I’ve lost count, about 16-19 tries with 2 miscarriages over 4 years. All these were in Australia. The purpose of our coming to EMBIO in Greece was to have donor treatment. In Australia, you receive excellent care, but the process is not anonymized. It’s very difficult to have donor egg treatment in Australia.

After extensive research on the internet, we had written to many doctors about my situation. Dr Paraschos’ responsiveness was exceptional – his honesty, his integrity, and his understanding of the situation. We have written to many clinics and we chose him.

He stood up for us, he’s very knowledgeable. He made us feel so comfortable about asking questions, we felt safe. It’s not easy to come to a foreign country to do this. It’s very hard. He made us feel at ease.

The embryo transfer was very good, Usually, I had a lot of problems with that in Australia, I suffer from cervical stenosis and it's very painful for me and usually, the doctors find it very hard to transfer the embryo. Here it was easy.

I didn’t feel pain, except for the clicking sound I was hearing.

Painless, I’m telling you. I had thought it was going to be difficult because of my situation, and it was surprisingly painless. I felt nothing. Three embryos were transferred.

The staff are truly excellent. They work extremely hard, they are amazing! Spyridoula works so hard. So lovely, so caring. I can’t sing her praises enough. And our IVF coordinator was very patient with us. 

Without such support staff, it would be difficult for a foreign person. They are so helpful. And Dr Paraschos makes you feel safe, secure, and at ease.

We are so grateful. Much easier than what was expected. So much easier. It was a relief. The whole IVF process is much easier than you think it’s going to be. You think it’s going to be hard, but it’s really easy.

Applying for an egg donor at EmBIO Clinic in Greece

I was impressed with the ease by which we applied for an egg donor at Embio clinic in Greece. So far, we’re extremely satisfied with Embio, whereas the treatment we had in Australia has been expensive and very complicated.

About Dr Paraschos

Dr Paraschos was very good, very warm and friendly, professional. He understood where we’ve come from, since this is a very emotional rollercoaster.

IVF Limit

 I’ve been through various fertility treatments in Australia, from assisted reproduction to IVF without results, and my time is running out. I’m in my 40s, I have limited time, and a donor is for me the final option. And it’s a big step because, emotionally, you have to come to terms that it’s not all a part of you, but we’ll have a child, and this will be our child. And I’d love to have a sister or brother for my boy. He’s a delight and joy and was completely natural. Now, I’m praying for a miracle.

The Embio Clinic is for real (Best clinic in the world for egg donation)

We searched sites and places in the world for our egg donation treatment. This a leak of faith from us in Australia, because we researched on the internet and everything we’d done so far had been via email and we didn’t know until we got here and saw Embio Clinic, that everything was legitimate. And now we find that everything is well organized and professional. Whatever the outcome, we’re very happy.

The faith button for us was one little photograph of Robert Winston. In this day and age you don’t know who you’re dealing with is genuine. When you’re dealing with people overseas you have nothing material.  But then our IVF coordinator, was emailing backwards and forwards to us for weeks for my questions and what to do next. In Australia it’s first the money and then getting pregnant. Whereas here at Embio, the human touch comes first. The mentality here is, ‘We want to give you what you want.’

The EmBIO clinic is busy, professional, enthusiastic, which is what I like to see – people who like what they do. I feel their heart is in the right place, we can feel the staff love what they do. There’s a lot of lovely women working at EmBIO.

Yes to Donor Egg IVF, No to Stress!

60% of Australian donor women back out before it comes to the treatment, because in Australia they don’t thank you for doing it. There’s nothing in it for her. The whole legal process is extremely stressful, because of what we’re going though emotionally.

In Australia you have to find your own donor. It’s a very long process. You may go through everything and they may say no at the end.

You’re wearing out your soul to find a donor! Once you’re out of the doctor’s door, you’re on your own. And there’s thousands of women in Australia asking for a donor. It’s like a lottery.

Here at Embio, there is no stress. As soon as we started communicating with the IVF coordinator, we felt that we were in the right place. I really felt I had found a friend.

IVF costs less (when you have your Egg Donation treatment at Embio in Greece)

In Australia the people who want the donor have to pay for her full medical blood tests, blood screening, full psychological screening, and counseling. So the cost of coming to Embio, Greece (flying, hotel and treatment) in many cases is cheaper than an egg donation treatment in Australia.

Time is a luxury the egg recipient can’t afford!

The whole procedure takes from 3 to 6 months in Australia. Remember that all this happens after you have found someone who wants to be an egg donor. You could be looking to a year to 2 years before you find a donor.

In Australia you can’t be a donor unless you’ve completed your own family. It’s not law, but it’s a major recommendation not to give eggs when you’re young and you have many eggs to give. But we are here at this Greek clinic now, since we don’t have the benefit of time because of our age.

What I’m saying to you, if you are in your 40s, is, Please, don’t give up. There is another way. There is hope.

And now for the big news...

We have healthy twins, now about 7 cm long

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First Scan in August 2014 and... twins!

Hi!

Please let Dr Thanos know that we are expecting twins.
I have had my first scan and attached the results.
All looks very good at the moment.
We hope it proceeds just as well.

Finally a big hello to all the fantastic people at work

All our warm Aussie wishes,

Kind Regards

I wanted children all my adult life, but I've been in bad relationships, so there's never been the right time to have the children together with a husband. When I turned 40, I decided that I'd have a child with IVF if I didn't have a child until 45.

Then, my sister-in-law became terminally ill with cancer. My IVF treatment had to be put on hold because the whole family had to be there for her.

When I was able to begin my IVF, I was 49. I had a failed attempt last year, and this is my second and final attempt. There will be no more after 51, because of my age. The age limit in Greece is 51.

Three embryos were transferred last year, 4 embryos this time.

I felt more uncomfortable during this embryo transfer than last year because I was more anxious. There was pressure from the ultrasound to find the right place to put the embryos.

Dr Paraschos is a lovely doctor. We had an excellent coordinator who was always there to answer questions and respond promptly. I received good service at Embio and I do recommend them, even if this cycle fails. 

I only stayed one night in Athens. I was told that I could fly back home the same day.

Hello! I hope you are well and still enjoying your great work.

Here are some pictures of our lovely son D! We are so very proud of him!

Furthermore, it is said by the doctor that D. is very early in performance and so quick learning! Already for quite some time, he turns from his belly to his back, and is playing with his hands in his mouth so much. He is now 4 months, and he is so cheerful, very happy and laughing a lot!

We are very grateful that you helped us so well!

Give dr. Paraschos our best regards and thanks!