Hi! Oh the dreaded term "AMA"! The only thing it did for me that was good was it got me extra ultrasounds that my insurance company would pay for!!!
Congratulations to everyone in this group, regardless of whether you are trying to get pregnant, currently pregnant, or have new little ones like me! We've all overcome the concern of being "old" and are working to make our dreams come true!
I had complications with my pregnancy, but no one is completely sure if it was related to me being 36 or if it was related to IVF or if it was just meant to be that way! I had placenta previa which started out as complete previa and ended as marginal previa. I've read that previa is more common in women over 35 and also in women who conceive through IVF.
I also have fibroids, of which one grew to over 10cms and another to over 5cms. I've been told that if I ever want to get pregnant again (which I'd love to!) I will have to have the fibroids removed because they haven't really shrunk. I've had those however since 2002, but they did get a lot bigger much faster than normal as a result of the stims.
Regarding the amnio, I refused to do it. Frankly, it scared me half to death and the only way I would have done it is if I absolutely had to in order to check the baby's lung development if I had to deliver early. I did do the NT Scan and the bloodwork to check for Downs and Trisomy 13 & 18, but DH and I had talked about it before and said that we would continue with the pregnancy regardless of the results so the main reason for doing the NT Scan was so that we could see the little one on the ultrasound! Happily our results were great and there was no need to do an amnio throughout the pregnancy.
I may change my mind about amnios when and if we get pregnant again. I'm 37 now and it looks like I'll have surgery to remove the fibroids later this year (Oct/Nov timeframe). My OB wants me to wait 18-24 months to deliver after the surgery, so I'd have to wait about a year after surgery before trying, meaning I'd be 38 then and 39 when I'd deliver (providing all goes well). I do have one frozen embryo which was frozen with my 36 year old eggs, so if we don't conceive naturally, we'd try the FET first.
Anyway, enough of my rambling.
