At 50, our son Ruben was born to our delight (October 2014) 2858g and 46 cm. A big thank you!
Earlier ... (April 2014)
At almost 61 and 50 years, we are pleased to announce the future BABY for late October 2014.
A big THANK YOU to all the Embio team.
A secretary at the Hospital Foch in Suresnes told us that they also had two ongoing pregnancies from Dr Paraschos at Embio, and a third woman under home treatment...
Again thank you and all the best.
We’re very happy with the service. The IVF coordinator was fantastic. She explained the whole process, was very thorough with whatever was going to happen, and was very attentive. The doctor was wonderful, gentle, kind, and explained everything and overall we are happy with the service from the beginning to the end. The whole process was explained, what needed to be done, so we recommend this service to everybody.
The clinic is great. We came for egg donation. I have PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and we’ve been trying for several years unsuccessfully with a number of cycles in Australia. We had to be here for 10 days. Our whole experience was very positive.
My sperm was good, good mobility, good quantity, but my partner did not have enough eggs due to premature ovarian failure. It has taken us 3 years trying unsuccessfully, and we had an insemination. All stimulations did not work.
We were registered on waiting lists for egg donation in France in 3 different hospitals close to where we live. You have to wait for 3 years for a donor free of charge. If you find the donor yourself, the waiting time will be reduced by 6 months.
At 38 and 39, we said we could not wait, and hospital TOURS 37000 mentioned two countries for egg donation, namely, Spain and Greece. The doctor there referred us to EMBIO clinic, because she had the opportunity to visit this clinic herself.
We sent emails to two clinics in Spain and two in Greece. We had quotes from 7000 to 10,000 euros in Spain, and from 4000 to 5000 euros in Greece. We had contacts with EMBIO (in Athens) and Iakentro (in Salonica).
I immediately rejected Iakentro, because they required a cash payment, which is prohibited by French law. We cannot pay more than € 3,000 in cash to a professional.
We planned to stay for 7 days, although three days were enough for the egg donation treatment.
My partner has a retroverted uterus and so the embryo transfer really hurt.
During the embryo transfer, 3 doctors in France took 45 minutes to 1 hour each to get the embryos into the right place in the womb. Dr Paraschos only took 3 minutes, as he realized the situation himself, and used a shaped tool to reach the bottom of the uterus.
I will never forget this common sense solution, and how Dr Paraschos has invented these tools by which he can see and reach the bottom of the uterus. It seems incredible how French doctors never thought of such things!
We had 6 embryos initially and 4 good embryos on the day they were transferred. The doctor said that, normally, there only remain one or two.
The relationship with the doctor is very good. You get the feeling of being treated personally in a private office, always in the presence of your IVF coordinator who speaks French excellently, on a PhD level.
We forgot about Spain because it was twice as expensive and we also had to pay for the cost of donor’s treatment. Once we realized we could not make external transfer and should pay cash, we had the choice between the two Greek hospitals.
Our choice was made in the process of 30 emails exchanged with Elena, the IVF coordinator, for 7 months. She was so involved in her responses that there could be no better choice for us. We knew we wouldn’t go anywhere else but Embio, even if we could find a cheaper clinic.
I came here for an IVF treatment using a donor egg, because we want to have a child together. We’re a second relationship. We tried to have a natural conception, which didn’t work. David is 53 and I’m 50 and we are too old to have any IVF treatment in the UK. We did some research. Greece was very favourable, and Embio had a very good profile.
On the whole, communication was very good, very informative. We had some initial communication with Dr Paraschos and then our IVF coordinator took over.
Today we had the implantation. It was fine, very quick, painless. I was very nervous, but no need to be nervous. Three embryos were transferred.
Our blue-eyed egg donor in Athens
The donor has blue eyes like us. We couldn’t have a brown-eyed child. It would look impossible genetically.
Cost of IVF Treament in Greece
We were quite pleased with the cost, because it was less than we thought it would be.
IVF holidays
We needed to be here for 5 days, but we chose to come longer for vacation. Athens is a good location with lots of things to do and see. We both like ancient history, so it’s a perfect place. We went to Nafplion, the old capital, and Epidaurus.
Dr Paraschos
Dr Paraschos is very friendly, appears very approachable and informative, communicates very effectively.
Egg donation in Greece at Embio
The clinic is modern, spacious, easy to find, easy to park (we hired a car from the airport).
It has been easy. Nothing has been too difficult or complicated.
The staff at Embio were being very helpful and informative through the whole process. The doctor was very personable and made us feel comfortable. He was very easy to ask. We never felt anything was a bother. The embryo transfer went according to plan, even though I was very nervous.
Hi Dr Paraschos - C. & A. here from Sweden. We just wanted you to know that I gave birth to our son, J. yeasterday morning. Everything went well and it was a normal delivery. J. was 53,5 cm tall and the weight was 3836 gram....big boy ♥♥♥♥
We'll send you a nice picture later on but I give you one now as well:-)
Thank you so much for making our dream come true ♥♥♥♥
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.
