Day 6 Grade C embryo success stories?

[aamiller405]

Up until now all my embryos have been Day5 Grade A. Now we move on to the Day 6 Grade C. We will be transferring two this time but I'm worried about the quality of them and how it might affect our chances.

[Ranchu90]

I will be brutal honest with you, our C graded embryos also day 6 been discarded by the clinic. They even did not include them on final fertilisation report as embryos that reached blastocyst. They consider grade C very poor quality. I know people here who had this grade transferred, hope they will reply to your post to give you some reassurance. Good luck my dear ❤️🤞

[aamiller405 in reply to Ranchu90]

Oh dear.. Well thanks for your honesty xo

[Twiglet2]

Hey this is the two I have left as well and I did a little digging and have seen many success stories! In fact one of my close friends has a beautiful daughter from this type of embryo after years of trying with ‘perfect’ ones with no success. I think I would go for double transfer too but absolutely could be one of the sticky one ☺️ Lots and lots of luck! Xx 😘💕

[aamiller405 in reply to Twiglet2]

Thank you very much for sharing that story and good luck 🤞🤞 x

[leah30]

Our little boy was a C grade egg. Our top grade first go didn’t take x

[aamiller405 in reply to leah30]

Thank you ❤️

[leah30]

And he’s 3 and half and doing amazing x

[Hidden]

I’m no expert but I try not to get to caught up in grading as it’s only what they think when people get pregnant naturally the embryo aren’t graded Iv seen many people have too graded embryo fail and low graded one end up with twins I think anything is worth a shot! Good luck xx

[aamiller405 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you 💕

[Hidden]

I’m doing a freeze all round my next cycle as I can’t transfer due to Covid and nk treatment but I am thinking of just asking my clinic to transfer any embryos that they normally wouldn’t freeze I don’t really think I have a lot to lose by doing that x

[Snez84]

Our 4aa failed to implant and our 4ab ended in a mmc at 10 weeks. Our ‘worst quality’ 3bc which was frozen on day 5 (for nearly a year!) ended up our perfect little boy. We transferred on a whim and didn’t change anything as we were convinced it wouldn’t work so you just never know. I know it’s hard but try not to get too hung up on the grades as the clinic wouldn’t have frozen it unless they truly believed it could result in a pregnancy xx

[aamiller405 in reply to Snez84]

Tjank you and congratulations xo

[Peony85]

For what it’s worth, I think some clinics use the C grade differently. Mine uses a D grade too, and that they won’t count or transfer. Other clinics only have A-C and in those cases C is much worse.

We found out this morning that we had a day 6 4BC develop overnight which we decided to freeze after discussing with the embryologist this morning he said he was happy to freeze it, with the downside being it was less likely to survive the thawing process. However he also said that AAs sometimes don’t survive so it is really down to the embryo. As my husband said this morning - if we discard it, then the chance it becomes a baby is 0%, whereas if we freeze it, the chance it survives may not be super high but better than 0 😊 so that’s what we’re doing. Wishing you the best xx

[aamiller405 in reply to Peony85]

That's a great point actually.. Thank you! x

[Orla9298]

I had some C grade embryos and one led to chemical pregnancy and one classed as early miscarriage at about 6 weeks, but at the time I researched and found so many success stories of C grades so it really can’t be predicted! Think positive as lots of them make babies!xx

[aamiller405 in reply to Orla9298]

Thanks and sorry for your loses x

[Finallypresent]

This is such a helpful thread - thanks to all who have contributed. We have two C grade frozen and it's so reassuring to hear positive outcomes.

Best wishes aamiller405 xx

[aamiller405 in reply to Finallypresent]

Same to you x

[sunset212]

hi i agree with what some of the other ladies have said- the clinic only freeze what has a reasonable chance of a pregnancy. If chromosally normal, grading becomes less important! Could you not get them PGA testing? If they survive the thaw once its quite likely they will survive a second thaw and if they didn't survive the 1st thaw it was likely not viable anyway? That's how i look at it. I too have 2 grade c embryos frozen day 6 to try should my day 5's not work. I do have a little boy already from one of my day 5's but hoping for a sibling for him early next year. My 6 day are graded 5AC and a 6CB. I've read loads of grade C successes, a lot is down to age too. x

[aamiller405 in reply to sunset212]

Spoke about testing and the consultant thought the costs would outweigh the benefits at this stage and said best to proceed with a double transfer x

[sunset212 in reply to aamiller405]

Very best of luck let us know how things proceed. x x

[sunset212 in reply to aamiller405]

Hi lovely, how did you get on with your double transfer? xx

[aamiller405 in reply to sunset212]

Unsuccessful im afraid.. BFN x

[sunset212 in reply to aamiller405]

Very sorry to read that, hoping your future treatment really soon is the one!! best wishes x