The clinic called 3 days after egg retrieval to inform us that 7 out of our 9 fertilized embryos were doing excellent. What a relief! Our embies ranged from a Primary Compacting Morula (PCM) to others that had been classified as 6-10 cell Grade 1 embryos.
At this stage, I was still pushing the fluids through with the hope that I could make it to transfer. What I mean by this was I hoped my estrogen levels could come down far enough for my body to cope with getting pregnant, as once you're pregnant, your hormone profile increases even further and ladies with already high estrogen are more at risk of being hospitalised for OHSS. Of course, I didn't want this to happen, but I really wanted a transfer!!
The embryology technician explained that they usually leave the embryos alone on day 4 and check them on day 5, and to expect a 50% drop off as not all would make it to the day 5 blastocyst stage (the holy grail of growing IVF embryos. 5 day blasties have a higher implantation and pregnancy rate than day 3 embryos).
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