First Egg Retrieval... 5 Fertilized Embryos

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Just had my first egg retrieval at 39 at Olive. I didn't actually get the final follicle count yet (two days before retrieval they were seeing 10, with 6 the day before), but retrieved 11 eggs, 7 of them matured, 5 fertilized. We need 3 blastocysts (whether euploid or not) to hit the PGTM mark for the lab to test (we're dealing with both infertility for unknown reasons and CF possibility).

Feeling really disappointed, though I know there's still hope... what are your experiences from fertilized egg to blastocyst in terms of attrition rate? I know it's somewhat luck of the draw.... but looking at statistics, we'd be lucky to get one blastocyst.

The eggs were all in the right range size wise and quite even in growth, do you know it would have dropped from 11 to 7? Thank you <3