Blastocyst

[Box01]

Hello, I am, after two failed IUI attempts, now researching and trying to understand what I'll be likely to expect in IVF. Can anyone share information on what a blastocyst is? My clinic charges an additional £800 for it and I'm not entirely sure what it is. Thanks

[Orla9298]

Hey, it means that rather than grow embryos created to day 3, they will grow them for 2 more days to blastocyst stage which is a day 5 embryo. Xx

[Box01]

Okay, thank you. So if they are 5 days old they have to have been blastocyst, if they're younger they're not blastocyst and not thought to be as likely to survive. Do you know what the percentage rate increase is to have a blastocyst? I'll read your article now so if you've answered these questions in your article I'll find out. Thank you for helping me xx

[Box01 in reply to Box01]

Hello, me again. Do you know why its so expensive for the clinic to wait for the embryo to reach 5 days? To charge £800 to wait for it to make it to 5 days without doing anything seems a lot of money, but I don't understand what the clinic does so it may be reasonable.

[Tbop]

Are you set on that specific clinic? Our clinic based it on how the embryos were doing, rather than how much money we paid... but then we did a package deal so maybe that’s the difference.

Have you looked into access fertility? They have refund programmes for if you don’t manage to have a live birth.

Good luck! X