does anyone’s clinic in UK do egg collections and PGTA biopsy at weekends? Our clinic putting in so many rules about when can start because of timing on weekend and also just feel trigger time might be chosen to suit them rather than what’s going on with my stim
egg collections and PGTA on weekend? - Fertility Network UK
egg collections and PGTA on weekend?


Hi dear
yes my clinic does egg collection and PGT both on weekends, they did PGT on Saturday and gave me updates on Sunday regarding the remaining embryos.
I’ve had an egg collection on a weekend - a Saturday - because that’s when the eggs were ready to come out. It did make recovery a lot easier - as I always end up with some mild OHSS symptoms.
Both the clinics I use have weekend cover though they try to avoid if possible as they can only do so many that fall at that time, but of course it’s not always possible. The embryologists also work on weekends - there’s always someone on shift on a Sunday.
PGTA biopsy is just taken whenever the blast is ready for it - if that’s a Sunday - then someone manning the lab can take the sample is the impression I’ve been given. Have definitely had embryo progress update calls on a Sunday.
No egg collections on the weekend at my clinic (they do transfers at weekend but not collections as they don’t have the anethitist and recovery team etc in the hospital think they are emergency only in hospitals at weekends). Never been an issue I can still trigger at the weekends for collection Mondays if needed. X