Hi Nat, I know how dissapointing it is when you get low numbers of embies. On both my cycles I only ended up with 1 to transfer and none to freeze. My first cycle I had 25 eggs, 14 fertilised and after 2 days they were all fragmented except one. BFN. Third Cycle (as second was cancelled prior to EPU due to OHSS risk) produced 11 eggs, 10 fertilised and again only one made it - this time to blastycyst. When we went to our FS on Monday asked whether it was due to dodgy eggs or sperm and he said it wasnt that, that it just happens. Of course its not the answer I want to hear and I wonder if there is anything else to improve the outcome.
Its great that BW's FS focuses on the improving health in conjunction with IVF. The more you move forward the more you learn if anything.
Nat not sure if your doing ICSI because of male factor infertility, but I have been reading that if there is damage to DNA structure of sperm that procedures like IVF/ICSI wont necessarily overcome this problem and means that although embryo's fertilise they dont have the genetic information to grow beyond blastocyst. I didnt challenge my FS about this and will next time to see what they think, but I am guessing seeing IVF is all such a business they probably wouldnt admit that would they. I mean if they can get you to blasty then they have done their job. But I am really dissapointed that we never end up with more than one embie per cycle and none to freeze to give my body a break.
I was also reading that in regards to treating male infertility, we are ten years behind treating female infertility. Great!!!
Anyway best of luck, I will also make sure to ask about Polscope!
Mon
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