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    Jun 2010
    District Twelve
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    Embryo implantation timeline...Your thoughts

    If you are anything like me and spend any time on google following a transfer, you would no doubt have come across this timeline.

    I have even found it on a US clinic website! However, has anyone ever had it verified? I am dubious given so many women get positive hpts 8,9 and 10dpo.

    What do you think???

    3-Day Transfer
    Days Past Transfer (DPT)
    *One - The embryo continues to grow and develop, turning from a 6-8 cell embryo into a morula
    *Two - The cells of the morula continue to divide, developing into a blastocyst
    *Three - The blastocyst begins to hatch out of its shell
    *Four - The blastocyst continues to hatch out of its shell and begins to attach itself to the uterus
    *Five- The blastocyst attaches deeper into the uterine lining, beginning implantation
    *Six Implantation continues
    *Seven- Implantation is complete, cells that will eventually become the placenta and fetus have begun to develop*
    *Eight - Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) starts to enter the blood stream
    *Nine - Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
    *Ten - Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
    *Eleven - Levels of hCG are now high enough to detect a pregnancy

    5-Day Transfer
    Days Past Transfer (DPT)
    One- The blastocyst begins to hatch out of its shell
    Two -The blastocyst continues to hatch out of its shell and begins to attach itself to the uterus
    Three- The blastocyst attaches deeper into the uterine lining, beginning implantation
    Four - Implantation continues
    Five- Implantation is complete, cells that will eventually become the placenta and fetus have begun to develop
    Six - Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) starts to enter the blood stream
    Seven- Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
    Eight -Fetal development continues and hCG continues to be secreted
    Nine - Levels of hCG are now high enough to detect a pregnancy
    Last edited by nothing2lose; June 1st, 2012 at 09:59 AM.