This is going to sound like complete gobbledegook
But I needed to share my excitement.
When we froze our little snowbaby from Charlie's cycle, they told me that they would normally have discarded it because it showed up with only one pronucleus at fertilisation. One pronucleus is considered an abnormal fertilsation, and embryos are usually discarded, but because the embryos were dividing, and eventually went on to be a grade 1 blasts, they froze them.
I say 'them' because 2 of our 3 embryos had 1 only pronucleus. The third was a 'normal' 2 pronuclei blast, and we transferred that 'normal' blast and one other 'abnormal' blast. We were told that if both took (very unlikely they said), we would likely need to do chromosonal tests. They were not surprised at all in fact when I was found to be carrying a single bub, it was firmly believed at the time that 1 pronucleus embryos didn't have the genetic male/female material to become a baby.
So it follows on that our last embryo therefore should have very little chance of success as well.
Except, that in the 2 years since we did IVF, the tide had changed, and where back then I managed to only find only 1 pathetic case of a successful healthy pg resulting in a live birth documented where a 1 pronuclei blast was transferred, today when I googled it, there are loads of medical information that now not only believe that 1 pronucleus blasts can absolutely be diploid (2 celled), but that tests have proven that when they removed a single pronuclues that belonged to one of these 'abnormal' embryos at 16 cell stage, that both male and female DNA was present!
Do you know what this means? It means I have HOPE again!
