Frosties!

Hi all,

I've been troubled by an issue for some time, thought I might throw it up here and see what you all think. My last cycle, I had 13 eggs collected, 12 fertilized and cultured to day 5, 1 transfered and 5 frozen. From my understanding the other 5 were still surviving when they were discarded. I know they were chucked because they were a bit slow in growing but I can't help but wonder, slow doesn't mean unviable. Part of me wish he had freeze all of them. I know I should be happy with 5 frosties but with so many failed cycles I want as many chances as I possibly can. When I asked my FS about the grade of my frozen blasts he said they only freeze top grade blast. He said the survival rate of the blast is 80%. What are your experiences?

Kahlan

Kahlan,

Freezing is tough on the embie and the only freeze the best beacuse they have the best chance of making it through the thawing process. I know it is tough but I had some slower onese frozen and none made it through the thaw and that was heart breaking.

Good Luck Hope you get a BFP soon

Hi Kahlan,

I've done 2 stim cycle of IVF, 1st cycle, 15 eggs collected 10 fertlized but only 2 made to day 5, I had one fresh transfer and 1 frozen, thawed successful. Second cycle, 8 eggs 6 fertilized 2 made to blastie, 1 fresh transfer and 1 frozen, I am in the middle of my FET cycle. So on that note, I think to have 5 frozen blasties is a great result.

I agree with Tiggerlinda, the whole freezing and thawing process is very tough, so selecting the 'fittest' is just to make sure the chances are high. Otherwise, emotionally and financially will be costly.

I do appreicated 'feeling those chucked one' are wasted. I once made a cheeky suggestion to my FS on a fresh transfer, why can't they freeze the blasties we were about to transfer and transfer the slower ones instead, that way, seems like to me nothing is wasted and I got better chance. Well, obviously I wasn't taken seriously. :-)

Anyway, hope the September FET will be the only one you need anyway.

Thanks Tiggerlinda and BeiBei,

Yes I hope that the next one would be it! I have a very good vibe about blasts. My FS said that although he can't promise because after all we are talking about probability but he believe that I should be pg with at least one of frosties I have.

BeiBei, I wish you luck too. Hopefully we can be belly buddies.