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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck OP! Where are you doing genetic testing?
There have been other posts that if you only have a couple of embryos, the Foundation for Embryo Competence (?) may charge you less.
And at 35 you're much more likely to have a good one in the batch 
(see this link:  http://reprogenetics.com/array-cgh-testing-and-embryo-prognosis/)[/quote]

Those charts are really interesting! I think I'm having some trouble jiving some of the numbers with what I was told by FEC when I had my consult with them. The text says "The chart pictured to the left helps to determine, on average, the percentage of normal embryos (percentage, bold) retrieved for patients given their maternal age and the total number of embryos retrieved." And then for all the egg donor categories and some of the lower age group categories, the bold number is 100% or in the high 90s. Is the bold number the percentage of [i]cases[/i] where there is at least one normal embryo within the batch? Not that 90-100% of the embryos tested are normal? If it's the latter, those numbers seem way too high.

FEC told me at my age (35) roughly a third of the tested embryos would be abnormal (and this is exactly what my results showed). Similarly, Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago has a chart (on this page: http://www.advancedfertility.com/age-eggs-chromosomes.htm) showing percent of abnormal embryos by patient's age, which shows even on the low end of the age range you're looking at about 25% abnormal.

Can someone clarify? I feel like a dunce. :)
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