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[quote=Anonymous]> but wow is this a money making and stats-drive business. And our bodies and wallets pay dearly for it.

Oh I hear you here.  On my last cycle, DE, I asked the doctor to ask the lab to be liberal on freezing.  From experience on other forums, it's clear that "embryo grading" is too subjective to be a valuable tool.  When people have their embryos tested, there is almost no correlation to how they look, and which are genetically normal.  Gorgeous embryos can be trisomy, fragmented ones can be normal.

I don't buy the explanations.  One of the reasons I went to GW is that they'll freeze anything for you.  I didn't want any of my embryos to be tossed.  Mine were frozen day 2, and transferred day 3.  They survived the thaw and divided, and looked like any other day 3 embryos.  At my age, we weren't getting to blast, so this gave me a chance at another cycle without the full meds and retrieval.

It didn't work but helped me feel every egg of mine they got was getting a chance.  In retrospect I wish I'd put in all my embryos at once but that's the 20/20 hindsight, because it turns out none were viable in either cycle.

Unless they're doing genetic testing, or there's NO inner cell mass, the "standards" are BS, in my opinion.

And Shady Grove's frozen success rate is not that high, it only supports the fact that their standards are not true predictors of success.

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