No Day 5 embryos today, only 3-4 waiting for tomorrow, any success stories of day 6 embryos? Fragmentation

[Swimming87]

We just got the call from the embryologist saying we don;t have any embryos that have reached blastocysts today (we had 8 fertilised). I am devastated. We have 3-4 that are growing and they will call us tomorrow to let un know if they made it to blastocysts.

I am a mess, do you think it would be possible for day 6 embryos (provided we have any) to result in live birth?

Embryologist mentioned there is some fragmentation, that is cells that the embryos have ejected.

Any word of advise very welcome

😔

[Kittykat198]

I know how incredibly stressful this part of ivf is. Lots of people here including me have day 6 embryo babies! Mine was my worst graded of the lot and had 7% chance of working.

He is now newly 18 months old, healthy and meeting all his milestones!

Fingers crossed for you!

[Swimming87 in reply to Kittykat198]

Amazing! Against all odds your little one made it. I hope ours will do well too, at least one. This process is gruelling!

[MD54999]

Not exactly the same but I transferred two embryos at day 5 that weren't yet blastocysts (they were grade 2 embryos and needed to get to grade 3 to become blastocysts) and I'm now 17 weeks pregnant from one of those embryos. Even if they haven't made it to blastocyst by Day 5 they can still result in a viable pregnancy. I've everything crossed for you!

[Swimming87 in reply to MD54999]

Thank you so much that's lovely to hear xx

[Hopeful80]

hello

My lovely baby boy was a day 6 embryo

I only had two that reached day 5 so with 3-4 still growing you have a good chance.

He is 19 months now and keeping me active.

I know how stressful this is but hang in there - x

Thinking of you

[Swimming87 in reply to Hopeful80]

Thank you so much xx

[Swimming87]

Thank you all so much, I just don't know how I'd go through the day without these comments. Thanks all for taking the time to reply even though I know this must be a question been asked millions of time. Let's hope our slow embryos become our miracle baby too XX thanks 🙏🏻

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi. Before we had the expertise to grow embryos to blastocyst, we had many Day3 successes. These days I hear of D6 successes too. Oh I do wish you every success. Diane

[Swimming87 in reply to DianeArnold]

Thank you Diane 😌

[N-A-58]

both of my babies are day 6. Remember they are only looking at them once a day. They could become blasts within an hour or two or a few hours after that review and it still be a day 5. Regardless my baby girls are now 6 and 2.

[Stoodinbath]

Hang in there, I know how stressful and devastating it is. We also didn’t get any day 5 embryos, only day 6 (starting from similar numbers too). One is our wonderful healthy two year old boy. Day 6 embryos still have good chances!

[Doodlebug23]

I had 6 transfers with 8 AA graded 5 day embryos. My 7th transfer was a 5 day AB and a 6 day BB. I’m now 32 weeks with a singleton and I’m convinced it’s my little 5 day BB that’s the little fighter 💖

[WillowPark]

I really hope so Swimming87 - I'm currently at 24 weeks with my day 6! Fingers crossed for you 🤞 x

[Blueeyedkitty32]

I’m sorry that you’re having to go through this stress, I know it all too well. We also had no embryos on day 5, they were watching 4 embryos. They made out like we most likely wouldn’t get any, we were devastated.

By day 6, all 4 had made it and ready to freeze. We had them pgta tested also and they were all normal. One of those embryos turned into my son, although he was unfortunately stillborn.

I’d say do try and hold onto some hope. Iv seen lots of stories of success with day 6s.

All the very best x

[Swimming87]

Update: only one embryo made it to today and is a 4CC. I am debating if to biopsy it or not. We have 3 top quality embryos in storage. what do i do? so difficult to decide

[cass1063 in reply to Swimming87]

Hi last time I only had one and decided to just freeze it without testing. It’s lot of expense just for one and felt it worth the chance to forego that!

On my most recent cycle I had three day 6 embryos, all terrible quality, from 10 fertilised eggs. So I feel your pain! So confusing to work out what the issue is. But luckily you’ve got some good ones in the freezer already!

[Swimming87 in reply to cass1063]

Hi cass1063 I just took the same decision. I had 13 eggs!! and only one 4CC made it. So we decided and just told the embryologist to just freeze it for exactly the same reasons you mentioned. I guess another learned lesson for me this time was never expect anything based on your previous cycles..so wildly different! But I guess that explains why I was having trouble to become pregnant anyway... I hope it works out for all of us and we get to start complain about things like screaming babies and sleepless nights rather than embryo morphology and biopsies 😅💞

[cass1063 in reply to Swimming87]

A lot of it feels like luck 🤷🏻‍♀️ but there are so many success stories to hold on to! And in the meantime it’s fascinating to learn about all this stuff tha people who get pregnant naturally have no idea about 😹 best of luck to you 💕

[Ginbaby]

I have a 16 week old baby boy from a day 6 embryo. Don’t give up hope 🙏🏼 xx

[Swimming87 in reply to Ginbaby]

Great to know!

[Swimming87]

We decided to go ahead with the biopsy at the end. Our clinic doesn't report mosaic embryos as aneuploid which means if found mosaic we will still be able to transfer it. it's the end of one road but let's think there will always be another one to follow soon. Let's all be strong and positive! thank you ladies x

[Nakijo]

Just wanted to say keep strong and hopeful

[Swimming87]

Update: our 4CC is euploid! I am very glad we decided to do PGT-A at the end. At least we got 1 good one

[TopGuntastic in reply to Swimming87]

This is great news 🤗