10 retrieved, 5 mature- devastated

[Anonymous]

Just got a call from my nurse letting me know that out of the 10 eggs retrieved this morning only 5 were mature. Doing simple math I can imagine 3 will fertilize and one (maybe zero) will make to freeze. So sad.

[Anonymous]

age?

[Anonymous]

35

[Anonymous]

wow. that's not that old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got a call from my nurse letting me know that out of the 10 eggs retrieved this morning only 5 were mature. Doing simple math I can imagine 3 will fertilize and one (maybe zero) will make to freeze. So sad.

I know those numbers aren't good, but try to wait and see what happens. Maybe those 5 are really great! You hear plenty of stories about high retrieval rates leading to little/nothing to transfer, and low retrievals leading to BFPs. There's a lot still to happen.

At my last retrieval I had 11 retrieved, 7 mature, not very much ahead of where you are now. And now I have two PGS normals on ice. Not the greatest, but a lot better than it could be.

Is this your first retrieval? Hang in there!

[Anonymous]

Hang in there OP. That doesn't sound so bad. I always retrieved around 10 and ended up with only 5 embryos in every cycle. (5 cycles). have one child and pregnant with my second. So don't worry, its quality!

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks!
It's my second cycle. First one retrieved 11, 9 were mature, 8 fertilized, transferred 2 on day 3 and only one made to day 5 - frosty. Fresh cycle was unsuccessful and the FET was done a few months later, also unsuccessful.

[Anonymous]

Don't give up, OP! While it feels like this is all about the numbers, that's not the whole picture. My second cycle I had 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, transferred two on D3, the third didn't make it to freeze. I was 36. Terrible numbers, but we have DD from that cycle. Hang in there, I hope this cycle works for you.

[Anonymous]

The math isn't exact. I was told you lose some at each step, but I didn't (at age 40). All of mine fertilized (with ICSI), all made it to Day 5. Of those, half made it to freeze. Currently pg with one of the frozens. You won't have any way of knowing until you get the final call.

[Anonymous]

To echo what the PP said, it isn't an exact science. I had 8 mature (8 retrieved). 5 out of the 6 made it to day 5. I froze one and transferred two perfect looking blasts that were hatching on their own. (I had a bfp but then I just found out at the ultrasound that I am going to miscarry).
My doctor said I only had a 17% chance of getting a frozen embryo.
I was told that at 40 years, only 25% of 5-day blasts will be normal with the full complement of chromosomes. I am doing CCS testing next round
But I feel your anxiety OP! The hardest part is how little is in your control.

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Anonymous wrote:The math isn't exact. I was told you lose some at each step, but I didn't (at age 40). All of mine fertilized (with ICSI), all made it to Day 5. Of those, half made it to freeze. Currently pg with one of the frozens. You won't have any way of knowing until you get the final call.

This. With my first cycle, I had five retrieved, two fertilized, and both made it to blast stage. That was an unsuccessful cycle in that the one I transferred turned out to have what was likely a random chromosomal issue, but the other embryo is still on ice. I opted to do a fresh cycle after that while I still had coverage. All of my cycles (I was 34 and 35 when I did them, three total) had less than 11 retrieved, and a smaller fraction fertilized. In my case, the survival rate to blast was very high (can't remember exact percentage, but like 80%). I'm currently 24w with #2, using a frozen embryo from my third fresh cycle. I probably did not even need to do the third fresh cycle, but I had changed clinics and wanted to start everything over. I still have 7 frozen embryos, all pretty high quality.

[Anonymous]

Hang in there OP. The waiting and lack of control is so hard. Fingers crossed for you.

[Anonymous]

I was 33 when my second IVF was successful. They retrieved 5 eggs, 3 fertilized, the two best ones were transferred. I delivered one healthy baby from that cycle.

[Anonymous]

When I did my last fresh cycle, I was in my mid-30s and had 11 eggs with only 6 mature upon retrieval. I ended up with 3 blasts -- two of which are now babies and the third is still frozen. Sometimes your body doesn't want to produce a lot of eggs, but it doesn't mean that the ones produced can't amount to something.

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I think that's not abnormal at all. I used an egg donor, so even with a highly fertile person I had a high attrition rate like ths:
26 eggs total. I was sharing eggs so of that I got 13. of that, 8 were mature, so 8, 5 fertilized. ( 5 of 13 fertilizing is 38%).