Lou, the spindle is the part of the egg where the genetic information is contained. When using ICSI, it's possible to inject the sperm into the egg and damage the spindle - leading to fragmented, crappy embryos. With regular ICSI, they assume that the spindle is directly below the polar body (the polar body is the left over bundles of genes that are released from the egg as part of its formation), but in my case, two thirds of my spindles weren't there (and that's fairly normal according to the information sheet on polscope that the clinic gave me). They claim they can reduce the degree of fragmentation from two thirds of the batch of embryos to only one third... we'll see how it goes with my embryos as the week progresses.

As of today, I had 17 embryos at 4 cells, and the other 3 were at 3 cells... The scientist tells me we're doing really well in that department. Me - not so well. OHSS has taken a bit of a turn for the worse. I'm still at home at this point, but making no promises on that continuing too much longer!

BW