ET today - but sooo confused about grading!

[LR16]

Hi ladies

I had 18 eggs collected last Friday, of which all were mature enough for ICSI. We were told on Saturday that 8 had fertilised. When I was told about fertilisation, I was also given my transfer appointment - and didn’t receive any more updates until today.

At today’s appointment, we were told that of the 8 that fertilised, 3 had made it to blastocysts. The embryologist confirmed though that they were early stage blastocysts - two of them were at stage 2 (of 6 stages). For this reason, they couldn’t give them a full grading apparently. We were then told that we needed to decide whether 1 or 2 should be transferred but that they’d recommend transferring 2.

It was pretty big stuff as I had not thought about transferring 2 at all. On balance, we did decide to transfer 2.

What I am so confused about is that I thought day 5 blastocysts were good news! Presumably, they survived the pre-blast stage. If blastocysts are stronger, I am slightly confused why they recommended transferring two. If anyone has any insight or had a similar experience, I’d be really grateful to hear about it.

It stressed me out quite a bit (as have a lot of things along this journey!), but I am of course so grateful that we have got to this stage. 🙏

Best of luck to all! ❤️ Xx

[Hidden]

Good luck and try not to think about everything too much. You won't be able to help yourself but I have to say it anyway 😁🤣

At my clinic they don't grade them - everyone is different. And they really don't know enough about what happens afterwards anyway. I have seen stories on here of people being told they had top quality who got bfns and low grade to get bfps.

Symptoms for failure and success are the same / indescernable too.

Wishing you lots of love, luck, patience and relaxation during your 2ww xxx

[LR16 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you so much for your lovely message. My tendency to overthink and analyse things really does me no favours on this journey.

Sending you lots of love and luck for your journey too xxx

[Hidden in reply to LR16]

Thank you. The great thing about this forum is that we are all there for each other. And collectively there is a lot of experience, that backed by Diane's input is amazing xx