January 04, 2022 • hometowns
Sarah Herron Shares IVF Update After Unsuccessful Embryo Transfer: ‘Science Is Awesome’
Bachelor Nation first met Sarah Herron on Season 17 of “The Bachelor.” Sarah also hit the beaches of “Bachelor in Paradise” on Seasons 1 and 3 in hopes of finding love.
While she ended up finding love and getting engaged off-screen to her fiancé Dylan Brown, Sarah has kept Bachelor Nation fans up with her life on social media over the years.
Sarah has been extremely open with fans about important topics like fertility, egg freezing, limb differences, and mental health.
And throughout the past year, Sarah has been particularly open about her and Dylan’s egg freezing, fertilizing, and embryo transfer process.
Unfortunately, in November 2021, Sarah shared that her first embryo transfer ended up being unsuccessful and didn’t result in a pregnancy.
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On Thanksgiving Day, the Bachelor Nation star shared an Instagram post, writing, “Unfortunately, it isn’t the Thanksgiving news we were hoping for, but our embryo transfer resulted in a chemical pregnancy. We are so disappointed, but deeply thankful we got to experience pregnancy for a day. It was magical. Our little embaby got to spend a day with her parents for a desert hike in Escalante.”
Now, a couple months later, Sarah is updating everyone on where she and Dylan are at with their “baby making” process and their next steps for IVF.
In a new video, Sarah revealed, “We are going to be doing what’s called a fresh transfer with a frozen embryo.”
She explains that typically for the IVF process, she would go from egg retrieval to fertilization to implantation all in real time.
This time, she will be doing all of the same steps, but when it comes time to transfer, rather than transferring a fresh embryo, they will be transferring one of their previously frozen embryos.
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The embryos are frozen at the perfect stage and undergo a series of genetic testing to be checked for any chromosomal abnormalities that could affect the embryo’s chances.
Sarah said this process allows for the “most optimal, prime embryos you could possibly get.”
So she’ll be undergoing the same process, and the eggs retrieved during this procedure will be sent off for genetic testing and then frozen if they need them down the road.
At the end of her video, Sarah shared, “It’s a crazy cycle, but that’s what we’re doing. Science is awesome.”
We are wishing Sarah and Dylan continued luck on their IVF journey, and we know that her sharing her story will help so many other families going through something similar.