September 2016 - IVF #4, Day 3 Report

All 3 are still growing!  Waiting for the call was terribly hard today, and I finally talked with Michelle at 3:30pm.  If you remember from previous rounds, Day 3 results are most promising when the cell counts are 6+.  We have 1x 8-cell and 2x 5-cell embryos, which is pretty good news!  My hope for today was for none that had either a) stopped growing or b) were still in the 3-4 cell range...so by that definition, today is definitely a success.

Here's some data from all of my rounds to help put it into perspective.

Green bars represent embryos with 6+ cells on Day 3, yellow are questionable, orange are not good.

We are not out of the woods yet, of course.  As you may also remember, Day 3 results aren't a guarantee of success to the end.  Oftentimes aneuploid / incompetent embryos will peter out and die in the Day 3-5 time frame.  For example: only our 10-cell embryo from round 1 made it to the blastocyst to be frozen, even though we had 3 others that were in the 6+ range on Day 3...

Day 5 report for round 4 will come on Saturday morning, Oct 1

More to come on Saturday...