How many embryos?

[ZigZag]

Hi.
We had 2 embryos available for transfer but we only opted to transfer one as we personally don't want twins. It was only our first full stimulated cycle but they gave us the option to transfer 2. I'm not sure what their reasoning was to have that option, but could be a combination of our ages (36 & 41) and the fact that we had poor looking embryos - heavily fragmented and only 6 cells each on day 3. None made it to freezing.

Of the 2 embryos we had left 1 was poor quality (only 2 cells when frozen)

. I'm surprised to hear how different the clinics can be. Our clinic will only freeze embies that make it to day 5, so was really surprised to hear they freeze with only 2 cell embryos - that would mean freezing on day 1 or 2?

All the best Bea06!!

[milly's mummy]

Hi everyone

I had my first transfer last Monday so I won't find out if it's worked till Friday, I'm not holding my breath though as my crinone has already turned black and I have no symptoms and my OHSS seems to have disappeared! But we had 2 day 5 embryo's put back and my FS was ok with it, the last 2 times we haven't even made it to transfer.

Best of luck, its a hard decision.

[mandyjane]

Hi,
I am just about to start our 3rd Ivf cycle...I have been only getting 1 good embyro to transfer per cycles and no frozen ones. since the 1st try.I have asked our Dr if she will transfer two next time if i get two good ones.She is still not keen as they dont like the idea of tiwns..But i think after a few no preg results the want to implant more embyros becomes stronger..With our first cycle we had 1 embyro implanted and 1 frozen but the frozen embyro didnt make it through the defrosting process, so i feel it would be beta to have implanted the 2 embyros as it feels like the other little embyro never got a chance to become something special....