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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the responses.  Please keep the good thoughts rolling in - I promise to do the same for all of you on your journeys.  On day two (today), we have 2 embryos at the 4-cell stage, 1 at the 3-cell stage, and 1 at the 8-cell stage.  Awaiting word on whether it'll be a day 3 or day 5 transfer.  [/quote]

With a low number of embryos (I was in the same situation, posted above), I would not risk waiting for day 5, and my guess is your RE won't want to do that either. Too much of a chance that they won't survive in the petri dish, while they might well survive inside you.

[b]The reason the other poster said higher number of embryos equals better chance of pregnancy is that you usually have more embryos to choose from[/b], and a greater chance that some will be top notch. But I've been told that ovarian response is not directly linked to egg quality, so even if you have few, they may be good. The only indicator they have for egg quality is age, although of course someone of a younger age could have worse eggs than someone who's older. It's simply that they can't test for quality, so they have to guess by age. FWIW, I'm 39 and while my response was comparatively low, my eggs seem to have been fine, as I got pregnant with twins on the first try.[/quote]

No, the reason why I posted it is because the data, for all age groups, show clear correlation between number of eggs retrieved and proportion of pregnancies achieved. Why is that, I don't claim to know.

http://www.advancedfertility.com/eggspregnancyrates.htm [/quote]

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