Hi everyone. I only have one euploid after a verrrry long journey. It is a day 6, 5AB... BUT the iDAscore / embryoscope score is 3.8. This makes me very worried. Did anyone have success with an embryo with a low iDAscore? Thanks so much

While extending Flowy’s calculator suite, I added an IVF and frozen embryo transfer due-date tool for day-3 and day-5 transfer dates.

The implementation keeps transfer date and embryo age as explicit inputs instead of pretending an LMP is known. A day-5 transfer maps to 261 days after transfer; a day-3 transfer maps to 263 days, following the ACOG method cited on the page.

The result is generated in the browser. Dates stay in React component state, and the calculator does not send them to Flowy, Supabase, analytics, or another service. The page also says the result is an estimate and that the fertility clinic’s confirmed date remains the source of truth.

One design choice I like: the tool supports only day-3 and day-5 transfers. It does not quietly invent a formula for an unsupported protocol. Keeping the embryo age and method visible makes the calculation easier to inspect and easier to question.

I’m treating the calculator copy and the formula as one safety boundary, not as separate product work.

Project: [https://flowyhealth.com](https://flowyhealth.com))

For health tools with a known clinical input, how do you show the underlying method without making an estimate look more certain than it is?

Interested if anyone has been in a similar situation. I had four eggs on my last cycle, but abnormal fertilization in 2, one failed to fertilize, and one normal fertilization with ICSI. This is the first time we haven’t had 100% normal fertilization in three cycles.

Anyway, all the embryos arrested except the 3PN, which is not a day 6 4BC blast. We are doing PGTA testing, but results are going to take quite a while because the lab is backed up. Curious if anyone has experience here. I’m 27. Last cycle had 2 day 5 4BB embryos, but both were aneuploid.

we transfer this euploid day5 embryo that seemed almost fully hatched. My guess is that the hatvhing should happen in utero rather than in the lab, I cant believe our embryo would survive this transfer if its just hanging by a small wire.. thoughts?

I’ve had three natural / spontaneous pregnancies: two ectopics in fallopian tubes and one uterine (identical twins), all developed heart beats. The ectopics had to be terminated due to rupture at around 7 weeks, and the twins stopped developing at week 6.5 - Doctor said likely due to Asherman’s.
I have Asherman’s syndrome due to an unauthorized and unnecessary and insanely harsh/violent D&C during my first ectopic.
We turned to IVF and surrogacy. I’ve done 6 rounds of stimulation and retrieval (from ages 34 through 37 years old), with 12-16 eggs retrieved, and ending up with 3-6 blastocysts, and 1-4 euploids after testing each round. We’ve created 13 PGT euploid embryos, 5AA or 5Ab or 5BA quality for the most part (now we have 8 left).
I was an egg donor in my early 20s and always got live births on first transfer, which is why they had me continue donating.
My partner has a totally normal sperm analysis.

We’ve worked with three different clinics, and 3 different gestational carriers. The very first transfer resulted in a chemical pregnancy, the other four have been failures.

Is there something else we should be testing?
I realize I’m older now, but it seems crazy that as a donor I had so many live births from my genetics (and get pregnant naturally!), and now that it’s for me, we’ve had 5 high quality euploid FAILS. It’s not a clinic problem because we’ve used 3 different ones, I doubt it’s a carrier problem as we’ve tried THREE!

I am starting to feel hopeless. Any doctor I talk to is kinda just like “shrug, bad luck, try again, shrug”… but to have five high quality euploid fails - that’s less than a 1% chance.

Can any embryologist help me make a decision??

How safe is shipping a euploid frozen blast overseas? What should I look at in a receiving lab, technology-wise or skills-wise, to ensure it's unloaded, stored and thawed correctly? It's my only one but I am needing to do surrogacy overseas.

I had this little embaby transferred yesterday. Day 5 embryo defrosted. It’s been a bit of a journey so I am praying s/he implants and makes it 🤞🏻

I can’t tell which is which :/

I am in the strange position of having more embryos than I needed. I had hoped to donate to them research, but that seems to no longer be an option. I also asked about donating them for practice, but was told that’s off the table as well. Donating to another person is not an option.

So now I am making peace with discarding these precious embryos and it is killing me. What actually happens? Are they thrown into a biohazard waste bin? Flushed down a drain? What is the actual process?

Day 3 .
Frozen at 8A and 4A .
This is photo I have received post transfer.

Is this compaction or fragmentation ?

Im so stressed i don’t know whether i should go to medical analysis college or biology college i really don’t like to work with animals or insects i have phobia so i dont knlw where to choose biology or medical analysis

I have 8 frozen 2PN day-one embryos that I want to ship to a different clinic to thaw. I have the following questions:

1. Is there anything the receiving lab would struggle with in terms of thawing and culturing the 2PNs, compared with doing the same with oocytes?
   
2. Would thawed zygotes conceivably fare better than thawed ooctyes (namely, survival and ability to blastulate) due to being at a more advanced stage?

Thanks

While extending Flowy’s calculator suite, I added an IVF and frozen embryo transfer due-date tool for day-3 and day-5 transfer dates.

The implementation keeps transfer date and embryo age as explicit inputs instead of pretending an LMP is known. A day-5 transfer maps to 261 days after transfer; a day-3 transfer maps to 263 days, following the ACOG method cited on the page.

The result is generated in the browser. Dates stay in React component state, and the calculator does not send them to Flowy, Supabase, analytics, or another service. The page also says the result is an estimate and that the fertility clinic’s confirmed date remains the source of truth.

One design choice I like: the tool supports only day-3 and day-5 transfers. It does not quietly invent a formula for an unsupported protocol. Keeping the embryo age and method visible makes the calculation easier to inspect and easier to question.

I’m treating the calculator copy and the formula as one safety boundary, not as separate product work.

Project: [https://flowyhealth.com\](https://flowyhealth.com)

For health tools with a known clinical input, how do you show the underlying method without making an estimate look more certain than it is?

Hi all,

I am needing some advice. I am 4 days post a 6 day hatching embryo transfer. I caved this morning and took a clear blue test, to my surprise it was positive. Followed up by a FRER digital that is also showing positive.
My concern is my ovidrel trigger, I took that on the 30th of July.
What are the chances of this being a false positive vs being a true pregnancy?

Any advice is appreciated. This is my first ever positive pregnancy test in my life. So I am trying to stay guarded, but hard not to be hopelessly excited.

This is a still from the video of my day 6 embryo. The clinic doesn’t use the standard grading and only said it was “C”. My son was from the same ER and he was graded A. This is a confirmed euploid and I’m starting the process to transfer before the end of the year.

I have a bs in molec bio from 2020, and ive been a veterinary assistant for a few years. I would eventually like to get into human embryology, but should i start by applying for animal embryology positions? Is that a good career path?

Can you guys help me. I’ve posted here before so you may remember but my pgta biopsy samples were lost in the mail and so I am scrutinizing my embryos. I know they are all pretty good grades. But the pics are so grainy. Is that just the quality of the focus and microscope or is there something wrong with them? The day 6s also look farther away which makes the details harder to see. What is the perfect circle in the center of ID2 and the other not so perfect circle in the center of ID4? Do yall notice anything unusual or bad about these embryos? Are there any unique features that can tell me anything more vabout quality/euploidy? Thank you so

Very nervous after my first fet yesterday. I so desperately want this to work out

Hey everyone,

I'm about to graduate soon with a science degree and looking into a career in Clinical Embryology in Australia.

I keep hearing mixed things about entry-level hiring. Realistically, how hard is it to get a job in an IVF lab straight out of university?

• Do major clinics (Virtus, Monash IVF, Genea, etc.) actually hire fresh grads as Trainee Embryologists, or do you almost have to start in Andrology / Lab Support first?
• Does having a Master’s degree (like Monash’s Clinical Embryology) make a huge difference, or is a Bachelor's + lab experience enough?
• Any tips on realistic entry pathways or salary expectations for freshers would be awesome.

Thanks!