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[quote=Anonymous]We have an embryo damage story. We kept having transfer failures, so we took a risk at the urging of our new doctor and unfroze our remaining embryos to have them biopsied. You would think that would be our problem. it was not. The lab at the fertility doctor did a great job. We waited by the phone to find out which ones were normal, because we'd just had so much heartbreak. We waited. And waited. I knew something was wrong. The PGS company didn't even have the decency to have the tech call us; they had their counsel call us (yes, legal counsel). They had destroyed ALL the DNA from the biopsies. They were "so so sorry." So not only did we un-freeze and biopsy our embryos for nothing, we ended up with NO information about our embryos, and the embryos were worse off, having been biopsied. One later become our DS, in a "blind" transfer (blind in the sense that we know nothing about abnormality). We have no clue whether our remaining frozen embryos are normal. We have no clue whether we'll just be wasting our money doing frozen transfers on abnormal embryos. We have no idea, if the embryo doesn't take, if that's related to a second unfreezing.

So a couple things: One, make the decision now. Don't risk unfreezing/refreezing, which was the unexpected position we found ourselves in after our first doctor told us he wouldn't do PGS/PGD.  Two, don't rule out these sorts of accidents. I don't think they happen to the majority of embryos by any stretch, but through the process with the DNA company's legal representatives, we learned that it isn't as uncommon as you'd think.  So it's not guaranteed. [/quote]

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