2 failed IVF cycles in Jakarta — the 3rd succeeded in Hainan Boao

Seven years married, five years of trying to conceive, one miscarriage, two IVF cycles — that is the sum of my struggle at age 36. I have PCOS, and my husband's sperm motility and morphology are suboptimal. We went through one IVF cycle at each of Jakarta's two best fertility centers — first failed to implant, second resulted in a positive pregnancy test that ended in biochemical pregnancy at six weeks. After each failure the doctor would say, "Possibly embryo chromosomal abnormality, but standard IVF cannot detect it." Do PGD screening? Only one or two centers in Jakarta offer it, adding nearly USD 5,000 per cycle.

An ethnic Chinese friend married in Indonesia quietly told me, "Have you heard of Hainan Boao? There is a national special medical zone there that can do techniques unavailable in Indonesia, and it is much cheaper than Singapore." She helped me reach MyMedVia. I was hesitant at first — an Indonesian Muslim doing IVF in China? But the advisor was very professional, communicating fully in English, and detailed the PGD capabilities of a Boao fertility center that can screen over 200 monogenic disorders.

I flew to Haikou, and the hospital's car picked me up to Boao. Stimulation started on day two of my cycle, with ultrasound and blood work every two to three days — the doctor adjusted for my PCOS with a low-dose long protocol to avoid ovarian hyperstimulation. On day thirteen, they retrieved sixteen eggs; by day five, five reached blastocyst stage. After PGD screening, two were chromosomally normal (one boy, one girl) — half the weight lifted off my chest just knowing these embryos were healthy. Transferred one female embryo. Nine days later, blood test — HCG positive.

My daughter is now four months old — healthy, lively, with big eyes like her father. Sometimes I hold her and think: if I had done a third or fourth IVF cycle in Jakarta, it would have been the same process and the same outcome, because what we truly needed was PGD screening, and Jakarta simply has too few centers with the technical depth and experience. The entire Boao trip cost under USD 9,000 — less than half of what the two failed Jakarta cycles cost. But what I am most thankful for is not the value — it is that we finally found the right treatment for our real problem. For anyone who has been through multiple failed IVF cycles, you know that is priceless.