Good donor egg cycle?

[Gem5]

Just had our first donar egg ivf collection, 10 eggs were collected and 7 fertilised normally. How does this compare to your donor egg cycles. I’m a little disappointed as this is the exact same as my ivf cycles using my own poor eggs 😔

[Refocus]

Hi, that's an excellent fertilisation percentage! I think they expect around 60% of eggs collected to fertilise. We got 17 eggs but only 8 fertilised. I have everything crossed for you that they continue to develop well! Good luck! Xxx

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi Gem. That sounds like a perfect cycle to me! 7 fertilised is a good result. Hope all goes well for transfer and you can maybe get a few to store frozen. Thinking of you. Diane

[Cinderella5]

All sounds ok so far! To be honest I never had a problem with fertilisation in my OE cycles....in and around 100% with ICSI, however the big difference was how many got to day 5.....that is the telling number not fertilisation. In my OE cycles we only had 2 blasts out of 6 fertilised eggs and second time 1 blast out of 7 if I remember correctly. In our DE cycles we got 6 out of 8 embryos that were top graded 5 day blastocysts. Second time we got 4 from 9 embryos that were top graded 5 day blastocysts. Hopefully your embryos will fair well.xx

[Bunnywoo]

Hi Gem5, its hard seeing the numbers decrease, I totally feel your pain. I don't have experience to share with a "good" donor cycle, but our first (and only so far) cycle we had 7 eggs collected and ICSI'd, 4 fertilised, 4 made it to day 3, none made it to day 5/6. I found the bit waiting from egg collection to see how many have made it to day 5 the hardest part of the journey so far.....(obviously I have not had the pain of BFNs or losing IVF babies yet which I am sure are much worse feelings!) I'd totally misjudged how challenging it would be mentally. You're not alone with these feelings - big hugs, I hope the next few days bring some good news for you xxx

[Sullygrrrl]

Good luck with this cycle, it sounds very promising so far!

With our DE cycle we got 17 eggs and I think 9 fertilized. Unbelievably, all made it to blast! Transferred one, got pregnant, froze the rest. Now 34 weeks. 😁

So, even though we didn’t get a huge fertilization rate, the ones that did fertilize were extremely strong.