AMA IVF/PGD - how many normal embryos?

[Anonymous]

I'm 40, and doing my first IVF cycle. I've had several miscarriages which we believe is due to egg quality, so we're doing IVF/PGD.

It's looking like I'm going to get 3-5 eggs this cycle, so the numbers aren't really on my side, considering some might not be mature, or fertilize, or develop to a 5 day embryo, and especially when you consider that only 1 in 7 eggs is supposed to be chromosomally normal at my age.

So AMA IVF/PGDers, if you don't mind sharing, how many eggs did you get in a cycle, and of those how many embryos made to be tested and how many were normal?

Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

Frankly, IMO 3-5 eggs is great. My RE would have been thrilled if I had that many.

I had exactly none. One semiformed follicle and that was it. We moved quickly to donor egg and had fast, comparatively easy, success that way.

Good luck to you.

[Anonymous]

At 38, I had 6 eggs retreived. 3 made it to 5 day blasts. 2 of 3 tested normal. Transferred one. She is asleep upstairs.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Apologies if you find this uninspiring: retrieved 10, 9 fertilized, 4 blastocysts, only 1 was normal and it didn't take. :/ Hope you have better luck.

[Anonymous]

Age 40.
9 eggs retrieved, 8 viable for ICSI, 6 fertilized, 3 made to Day5, 1 normal: 1 inconclusive: 1 abnormal (monosomy 13).
This is from my October 2014 cycle.
Out of 9, only 4 were at MII stage and surviving Day5 blastocyst all came from the MII eggs.

[Anonymous]

I'm pp. According to my report, I see that MI stage eggs matured after retrieval in the petri dish, and fertilized. But did not survive to Day5.

[Anonymous]

age 42. 11 eggs retrieved over 5 cycles, none of the mature one made it to Day 5/6 quality my RE would do anything with and therefore we never got to do PGD. now doing frozen DE cycle.

[Anonymous]

42. 6 retrieved. All 6 fertilized and made it to day 5 looking perfect. PGD showed that all of them had multiple trisomies. All incompatible with life.