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[quote=Anonymous]Here's a quote from a woman on another forum, it's a tight community and we've been following each others' journey for years:

[i]Those waits are awful. From my one IVF cycle, I believe that each clinic uses their own grading system. 
However, for mine I was told that one of letters was what would turn into the baby and one would turn into the placenta. I really take the grading with a grain of salt. I had CCS testing on 6 blasts. The "best" looking one had multiple chromosomal issues. Currently, my only healthy blast is 27 weeks gestation. She was graded a 5BB. If I didn't do the testing, she wouldn't have been the first choice to transfer.

I say wait until the testing is back and then look at those available for transfer. Just good for thought. [/i]

The grading is BS to me, and not wanting potentially chromosomally normal embryos (so precious as an AMA) tossed is one of the reasons I chose GW--that and it's nonprofit so I trusted it to be about me, not money and stats.  And we did change my protocol after one disastrous cycle, whereas friends my age at CFA and SG have had doctors repeat the same unsuccessful protocol with no tweaks.  GW has disadvantages, not open on weekends (no monitoring, and I was afraid they'd time retrieval and transfer around it but I had a transfer on a Sunday) BAD stats (the year I checked 2009 they were the same as SG but the last two years and 2008 are awful, for overall awful), which I guess you can explain away a little by the fact that they take everyone and don't worry about their stats.

GW did better pre-IVF testing as well, asking for prolactin and my AMH, while SG had the protocol ready without either of those two.

The reason to choose SG instead is stats.  But that is tempered by knowing that they don't take everyone like GW does.  And that if you are outside the "norm" for their patients, they won't look for anything innovative to help you, it'll be the same formula.

In the end I'm not pregnant but don't believe SG would have given my eggs any better a chance.[/quote]

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