how many eggs should fertilise?

[smiles4u]

I had friend only end up with 3 ... yeh, she was shocked too !!

But, they conceived from their 1st round (a massive shock again, BUT yeh a beautiful & wonderful shock !!) ... And 9mths later their healthy little girl named "HOPE" arrived.


Sending you lots of positive thoughts

[butterfly_warrior]

My clinic states that somewhere between 50-75% of eggs should fertilise.

My first cycle, we had 26 eggs, but only 21 were mature, with ICSI, 15 fertilised.

My second cycle, 32 eggs, 30 mature, 20 fertilised. I don't recall the reasons with the first cycle, but with the second one, they told me that the eggs that weren't fertilised weren't good enough - they described them as "grainy".

5 from 12 isn't necessarily bad - it could be that some of the eggs that were collected weren't mature enough, or weren't good quality like those that weren't used for me.

I would suggest that it's certainly worth asking your clinic about the reasons for the lower fertilisation rate, and perhaps find out if they think that ICSI might overcome this in the future. Although, it's not a foregone conclusion that you will need to do this again - you have an embryo trasnsferred, you have some that will hopefully go into storage - it could very well be all that you need. Good luck!

BW

[waiting1]

HI I had 26 follicles and only got 15 eggs out of that. 11 fertilised but then only 8 survived to the transfer stage so one fresh and 7 frozen.... You can expect to lose some each step of the way - it happens the same way naturally - not every egg fertilises....

[LJ*]

Hi Farmgirl,

I had 15 eggs collected but only 3 fertilised with ICSI. And out of those 3 only 1 made it to transfer, so I had none to freeze. I was also very disappointed but it was our 1st cycle (have EPU for 2nd cycle this Wednesday) and we have male factor infertility so possibly will always have low fertilisation rates.

Wishing you all the best with your transfer