Egg collection today yielded 4 eggs, one of which doesn’t look amazing according to the embryologist. He’s going to call later to let us know how many they were able to inject.
He did say that if we follow the law of averages we’re likely to hope for 1 blast at this stage.
Trying to remain positive but feeling pretty deflated atm. I know it only takes one but 3 MCs & a BFN don’t fill me with confidence re. The quality of my eggs so we’d been really hoping that we’d get a few to test (PGS) so hopefully we’d end up with one that was ok to transfer.
I know there’s still hope & the 3 decent looking ones could all turn out to be ok but am just feeling a bit fed up. Hoping for the best, preparing for bad news again.
I hope everyone else that had EC today is well and got better numbers! Xxx
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Hi lovely, well done with your egg collection, such a huge hurdle! I am sorry you feel deflated, I know you must be worrying about the outcome even more now, but dont lose hope, those other 3 eggs could be top quality and you may get 3 blasts, you just never know! Good luck with your phone call tomorrow, will be thinking of you, such a horrible wait now. Make sure you rest up this afternoon, and enjoy a nice evening and tomorrow will be here before you know it xxxxx
Thank you Italy! Your message just made me cry! I’ve been trying so hard to hold my emotions together throughout this round and remain calm & positive (VERY difficult on these hormones! 😂🤦🏽♀️🙄) and I think that it’s all just hitting me again - we try to stay so positive throughout each cycle and each pregnancy and it always, always ends in disappointment. Praying that this one doesn’t, however as many on here sadly know, the deflated feeling at the end of everything is all we know and today brought it home to me that it really could end that way. Again.
Anyhoo, as you said, those 3 could be top class so we’re still in the game, which I am very grateful for! Xxx
That's just it you try with all your might to stay hopeful and positive and no matter what you do it will always come to a head, normally when the hormones are doing their wonderful job too🙈.
You just never never know, we are always told it's a numbers game but with seeing others ladies on here get their positive from very few eggs on egg collection, their is every chance one of those is your lucky one, lots of hugs xx
Congrats on getting to egg collection! Sorry to hear about your disappointment in your numbers. Completely understand that feeling as it's a long hard slog to get to this point and we all want to make sure we have the best chances. I've got lots of hope for your 3. Keep us updated on how everything goes. xxxx
Thank you Emmie 😘 I will do! Hopefully tomorrow’s call will bring good news and I’ll be back on the up on this 🎢 after the drop today! 😂
You’d think we get used to the constant ups & downs in this process but you don’t do you? It just gets harder & each 🎢 seems to get scarier & scarier! 😂🤦🏽♀️Xxx
Congrats on your egg collection, sorry it's not what you wanted to hear though! 😔 The worry and disappointment is so hard to take. I was also disappointed with my EC a few days ago, but trying to remain positive. You could have 3 good blastocysts, crossing my fingers for you!! 🤞 xxxx
Thank you Chel. I’ve just had a look at your page, I can understand your disappointment too, sorry to hear you’re going through it as well. However it is great you have 3 that fertilised!
Thank you for the 🤞🏻! I’ll be keeping my fingers firmly crossed for you too! 🤞🏻🍀🍀🍀 xxx
Oh lovely, its hard when we dont get the numbers to give us a little confidence going forward! Hopefully you have 3 little fighters there and all goes smoothly from now on in. Best of luck.xx
Thank you hun! You’ve hit the nail right on the head there - it’s having the numbers to give you some confidence. Yeah, fingers crossed they are 3 little fighters!!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 Xxx
Thank you both!!! Sorry for the delay in reply, I’ve been staying away from my phone to try & stop incessant googling of stats of people with 1 fertilised egg making it to blast! 😂🤦🏽♀️🙏
Getting another update today so hopefully it’s developing as it should! 🤞🏻🤷♀️🤞🏻🤷♀️🤞🏻 Xxx
Ah, thank you so much hun. That means a lot. Just waiting on the call from the embryologist 😨😱😨 Got all my fingers & toes crossed the little embryo is holding in there! I wish he’d hurry up and call! 😂🤦🏽♀️😂 xxx
Sorry you’re disappointed with your numbers today but I have every faith you’ve got three strong little 🥚 there! Hope you get amazing news tomorrow ♥️ xxx
Ah good to hear it! It’s always a knock when you don’t get the numbers you had in your head but I’ve definitely learnt big egg numbers doesn’t equal big embryos so here’s to those 3 🙌🏻💪🏻🥚
So far so good. Scan is on the 23rd, date is dragging its heels but we are getting there!x
They told me after only getting 8 eggs that 6 were okay to fertilise and that I’d only have 2 left by the end however odds were beaten 5 fertilised and by day 3 we still had 4 and day 5 we had 3 to freeze and one that’s hopefully making itself comfy! So hopefully you beat the odds too 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 ❤️
Stay positive Jo. Remember I only had two and look at me! He is 6 weeks old this weekend. You still have a great chance!! Good luck for the phone call 🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻✨Xx
I remember like it was yesterday. I was over the moon to just have two eggs collected because my consultant (who was absolutely incredible) told me I may not get any eggs at all. It’s easy to get wrapped up in numbers and feel down and emotional right now. You have been through so much and done so well to get through today. I know you are probably sick of hearing it but, it really does only take one!!🙏🏻🙏🏻xx
I’ve just looked at your page - do you mind me asking why they did a 3 day transfer? I’ve asked about this at my clinic and they said they won’t do it as if they’re not looking like they’ll get to 5 days there’s no point but I worry that if they have 1 (or 2) that are looking like they won’t make it to day 5 but could be transferred at day 3 but aren’t, we might miss an opportunity? xxx
My clinic was very much of the opinion that embryos are better off back where they belong and not in a lab. Mine were both looking good on day 2 so when they called they advised having them both put back in the next day to give us the best possible chance. They obviously warned us about a possible twin pregnancy. With ladies who have many more embryos on days one and two I get why they wait for a day 5 transfer but with ladies like us to me it’s obvious to put them back as soon as possible. I’m no expert but that’s what we did. If you find yourself with one or two still going strong on day 2 I’d STRONGLY push for a day 3 transfer. It should be your chocolate surly!! Xx
Thank you so much lovely! Hopefully the embryologist will call SOON (I’m willing him on with my capital letters 😂🤦🏽♀️) to say it’s hanging on in there! 🤞🏻😂🤞🏻🤞🏻 Xxx
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