Seven-day Blastocyst Question

[Anonymous]

I have a 7-day blast frozen and have been wondering the same thing!!!! I love the 11/26/16 note and that makes my heart and hopes soar. Thank you for your posts!

[Anonymous]

I am also waiting to see if an early blastocyst will become a blastocyst on day 7. I hope yours did!

[Anonymous]

I am 41 and had an FET of a day 7 blast transfer on 12/19. I am now 11 weeks pregnant. I've had 6 scans so far and all look good. I go for my first trimester screening next Tuesday. I love the 11/26/16 note too! Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

We have 4 Grade AA Embroyo's all tested normal. So sometimes the highest graded blasts are the normal ones. It really is a crap shoot.

[Anonymous]

I just finished 3 IVF cycles at CCRM which was almost a complete bust that left me with only 1 embryo out of 13 that made it to blastocyst on Day 7 which was biopsied and frozen. And this was in spite of adding 26 frozen eggs taken when I was 34 and 38 years to the mix (only 14 survived the thaw, only 1 fertilized, and none made it to blastocyst). So, I'm left with a Day 7 blastocyst from one of my 41 year old eggs.

My embryologist told me that there was about a 30% chance it would come back CCS normal. If it was normal, I had about a 30% chance of it leading to a live birth.

I've googled day 7 blastocyst and have found that there isn't a lot of information or anecdotal stories about successes or failures.

I'd appreciate hearing more about other women's experience with it.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I just transferred a 7 day girl and a 6 day boy yesterday so we will see... I am 26 and both were PGS tested normal... now for the long wait

[Anonymous]

I had only two embryos make it to blast for my successful cycle--both didn't make it until day 6, and were described as 'crappy looking'. I had to argue for a day 6 fresh transfer--lo and behold, one of them took and is a healthy baby. My previous cycle-with a PGS normal 5 day blast that looked 'perfect' didn't take. You just never know. I've read that what is considered good looking in blastocysts favors male embryos because they tend to develop faster. My crappy looking blast ended up being a girl.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2767484/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just transferred a 7 day girl and a 6 day boy yesterday so we will see... I am 26 and both were PGS tested normal... now for the long wait

Please keep us posted! Crossing my fingers for you.

[Anonymous]

I have a 7 day blast baby. She's one and super smart and hitting all milestones on time or early so far. She's also very very tall just like my husband and me!

[Anonymous]

Ladies who have had their Day-7 blasts result in successful pregnancies - do you recall what grading the blasts were?

We are currently in the situation of having a day-5 AA blast (of which we were given 90% chance of successful pregnancy) that was transferred after fresh cycle - negative result. Never implanted according to blood results.

We have one frozen embryo remaining.
Have just spoken with our doctor and he has informed us that the embryo is a Day-7 and graded BC. Probably only a 50-60% chance.

Not sure how we go into this with any hope or confidence knowing we had a 90% shot previously which failed.... and now a BC day-7 blast with only 59-60% chance.

[Anonymous]

Is the day 7 BC PGS normal? If it's not tested it's not 50-60 percent chance

[Anonymous]

Yes tested "normal".
And I meant 50-60%... not 59. Sorry.
My partner and I are 30 years old. Have conceived twice naturally. Fit & healthy.
Not sure whether that is contributing to the 50-60% chance for a 7-day BC when I've read much lower figures elsewhere.
But regardless, not sure how to have faith when our 90% normal AA failed.

[Anonymous]

I just had a 7-day AA blast transferred on day 7 (May 12) of an FET cycle (endometrial biopsy showed I was pre-receptive on day six). I've had three previous unsuccessful cycles (two fresh, one FET, all with 5 day blasts, two were tested and normal). I go in for my beta on Thursday, but four consecutive days of HPTs are showing a positive result, line getting darker each day. Fingers crossed it all works out, but wanted to share what will hopefully be a 7 day blast success story!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just finished 3 IVF cycles at CCRM which was almost a complete bust that left me with only 1 embryo out of 13 that made it to blastocyst on Day 7 which was biopsied and frozen. And this was in spite of adding 26 frozen eggs taken when I was 34 and 38 years to the mix (only 14 survived the thaw, only 1 fertilized, and none made it to blastocyst). So, I'm left with a Day 7 blastocyst from one of my 41 year old eggs.

My embryologist told me that there was about a 30% chance it would come back CCS normal. If it was normal, I had about a 30% chance of it leading to a live birth.

I've googled day 7 blastocyst and have found that there isn't a lot of information or anecdotal stories about successes or failures.

I'd appreciate hearing more about other women's experience with it.

Thank you.

Is it common for thawed eggs not to fertilize?

[Anonymous]

It looks like there are some recent stories of women who transferred Day 7 blasts... How is everyone going? I hope all is well! Our one and only PGD & PGS normal after two retrievals is a Day 7 blast. I can't find much info out there, so I'm glad to hear some of these success stories!