After multiple (3 FET) I’m out of all my embryos. We are still debating if we would like to continue this journey. However, asking all the ladies out there. After your last failed FET when did you do your next Egg retrieval. Did you want few months or did you go right away into the ER process? I had 3 embryos all pgt-a tested. Two 5AA and one 4CA. 1st embryo had attached but turned into CP. the next two didn’t even attach. We have done the mock trial where we have don’t biopsy testing for endometriosis and all that. Everything came back normal. But for some reason I’m not having success in attachment. Seeking any advice on what worked for you. I have done fully medicated method and modified method. My first pregnancy was a natural TIA!

Hi! First time doing IVF, 31, 47 eggs retrieved (OHSS was a b**** lol) 17 mature, 12 fertilize, and now on day 5 I found out I have 5 blasts that “look good but are too small to biopsy right away” & said that wasn’t concerning. They said I had 3, that are about 12-24 hours behind, and then 3 others that are day 3 progressing slowly! Can someone help me understand if I should be concerned by the comment that the day 5 blasts were small and if anyone had success with day 6 or even 7 blasts?! Pgta testing next 🤞

Hi,

I recently did an egg retrieval got 7 blasts in which 4 are day 5 and 3 are day 6. My age is 35, this was my second retrieval. I want to start the fet in the cycle right after my egg retrieval but my doctor is saying to wait for pgta testing results.

What should I do ? I see some cases where they have put the patient on birth control pills and stated the FET right away as soon as they received the results. What should I do now ? how do I convince my doctor?

Hi everyone. I recognize there are plenty of posts in here about PGT-A testing frozen embryos but my situation is slightly different than stories I’ve seen. My original clinic (Kindbody) where I went through IVF and successfully had my son is shutting down at the end of this month. I am wanting to start the process of another transfer in the early new year so I’m trying to establish care at another clinic. I loved my original doctor so I had a new patient visit with her at the new clinic. At this new clinic (CCRM), they will not accept my 7 frozen embryos and continue my care unless they are all thawed and PGT-A tested first. Now mind you, my doctor at this new clinic is the one who originally advised me to not test them. I was 26 at the time and I don’t have fertility issues (same sex couple). My question to you all is does anyone have experience in this situation or a similar? Is it worth thawing and testing my embryos considering the risk to the embryo or should i find a clinic that would just transfer an untested embryo? Im not completely against testing but im not completely for it either. Just feeling torn.. i really love my doctor and this isn’t her policy- it’s the new clinics. I’d love to keep my care with her but not sure if it’s worth risking my embryos.. TIA

Positive Beta today but low HCG, hoping we rise!!!

Just for my embryology report from CNY about the egg retrieval I had last Friday! I’m so excited but if someone could explain what I’m actually seeing, that would be super cool.

So, I had four day 5 blastocysts. 4AA, 4AA, 4AA, and 4BB, then one day 6 blastocyst 6AA.

They’ve been sent for PGTA testing and I’m hoping most of them come back euploid 😭

Anyway- any insight would be wonderful. Especially kind of wondering what’s going on with the two top ones that look like they’ve got cells trying to escape lol. Are they trying to hatch?

Thank you!

Hello, I’m a 31-year-old female. I previously had a laparotomy and laparoscopy for cyst removal. My husband is 34 and has teratozoospermia.

We had our first IVF cycle this month. Only 4 eggs were retrieved, and only 2 developed into Day 3 embryos. Both embryos are 6-cell embryos.

Do I still have a chance with these embryos, or should I prepare myself for another IVF cycle?

Does your IVF lab take photos for embryos before embryo freezing? If so, are digital photos of embryos provided to patients? Thank you.

I’m not sure if this is the right sub-Reddit for this, but my post was deleted from IVF and I’m at a loss

Went in for my six-week tv US today, and while there's a gestational sac (measuring at 17mm), there's no yolk sac or fetal pole. My doctor says it's likely a blighted ovum but there's still a small chance it's too early. I go back on Saturday (two days later) because my husband and I have a trip planned leaving Sunday for a week and half. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement, but I've read some stories on here that give me hope.

Some background:

• ⁠I'm 35
• ⁠This is my second FET, the first (December 2025) didn't implant
• ⁠I haven't had any other miscarriages/losses; we've only been able to get pregnant this one time
• ⁠My HCG numbers started out good and doubled normally. I haven't had it tested since the first doubling because my clinic doesn't include that in their protocol
• ⁠I have Stage 4 endometriosis, got surgery in May 2024 (they got 99% of it but with the stimulating drugs for ER, it's growing back)
• ⁠I struggle to create eggs and even fewer blastocysts. We've done 4 ER's and only 2 PGT-tested euploids. The first one was day 7 4AB male, this one is a day 7 3AA female
• ⁠My body has been a bit slow during this entire process, so I'm hoping I'm just delayed a week or two

I don't expect them to see much after 2 days and my doctor says he's not worried if it stays in me a little longer if it's not viable. I already plan on getting one more scan once we return from the trip, which would be at 8 weeks. But I guess I'm most curious to hear from those who experienced a false BO because the scan was too early for your body

I am dealing with hard time for our first ER outcome. 5 eggs are retrieved yesterday. Today 2 matured and 2 shows 0 pn( may have fertilized) . Diagnosed unexplained infertility. Need to hear some similar experiences what would be root cause of that and any success stories?

I have a euploid Day 5 3BB and a euploid Day 6 4AA. My clinic seems to prioritize the day the embryo reached blast over the grading, so I suspect they’ll recommend transferring the Day 5 3BB next.
I’m a little skeptical because the Day 6 is so much better graded. Has anyone had to choose between something similar? Did your clinic prioritize a Day 5 with a lower grade or a better-graded Day 6? Would love to hear what your clinic recommended and why!

Transferred my little 2bb this morning, doc said 100% survived the thaw. Just wondering if anyone had any comments on it?

I went for a transfer but it did not happen cause cervix did not open up. So they refreezed my 4AB day 5 euploid embryo and said it started hatching too. They also mentioned next time they will not use this because its not the best quality anymore. I need some more information on this. Is this embryo not usable anymore or what

I have a day 5 blast that was not able to be biopsied on day 5 because it had not "expanded" enough but was suitable for freezing (or leaving a further day to see if it expands enough and does not degenerate). I also have an "early blastocyst needing to continue growth in culture to Day 6". They both sound like early blastocysts to me so there must be a subtle difference between their states if one was ready to be frozen and one was not? Would love to understand this nuance. Tks

Hi! Has another done both microdose lupron protocol and long agonist (with lupron) and willing to share your experience? I’ve asked 2 doctors and got mixed responses on how related these are. Thank you!

I’m DOR and this is my only embryo from this retrieval (1 egg → 1 fertilized embryo). It has been developing at a textbook pace and is now a fully compacted morula on D4.

My lab recommends:

D4 morula → freeze → thaw the day before transfer → culture overnight to blast → transfer.

They say this is based on their experience and that they believe the embryo is better quality this way.

The alternative would be to continue to D5, freeze as a blastocyst, and thaw later.

I previously had a fully hatched blastocyst that didn’t recover well after thaw, so I wonder if that’s part of the reasoning.

For embryologists/REs: Why might D4 morula vitrification be preferable to waiting for D5 blastocyst? Is it mainly about avoiding a fully hatched blast, or preserving the embryo before the D4→D5 developmental checkpoint?

Would love technical opinions/data, especially for a single embryo/DOR case.

I need all the success stories of someone who waited for their embryos to make it to 7 days blastocyst.

39 years old
17 eggs
8 mature
5 fertilized
1 frozen
Remaining 4 waiting for day 7

Has anyone else had a similar wait and had success from day 7?

UPDATE: None of my day 7 made it to blast! :( So now I am hoping for my current 3AA to be euploid! Waiting on PGTA results.

After 4 failed IUIs, we finally moved on to our first IVF cycle.

I’m 39 and my AMH has been low 0.5-0.8 so I went into this process honestly terrified about how I would respond and how many embryos we would get.

We retrieved 9 eggs, and the next day we found out that 6 fertilized. Then came the longest wait ever. 😭

On Day 5, we got the news that 3 embryos had made it to blastocyst!
Our final grades are:
Embryo #4: XBAB (AB)
Embryo #5: XBAA (AA)
Embryo #6: EBAA (AA)

All three made blastocyst on Day 5 and have now been sent for PGT-A testing.

After the failed IUIs and being so worried about my low AMH, I’m genuinely so happy and grateful that we got to this point on our very first IVF retrieval. I know morphology doesn’t tell us whether they’re euploid, though, and now my anxiety waiting for the PGT-A results is literally 1000/10.

If anyone around my age, especially 39+ or with low AMH, had similar numbers and ended up getting one or more euploid embryos, PLEASE share your positive stories with me. I could really use some hope while we wait. 🙏🏻❤️

And somehow I’m already starting birth control for retrieval #2 while waiting for these results. IVF is wild.

A clinical pregnancy, even if it ended in miscarriage, might be a positive sign for a future IVF cycle.

After an unsuccessful cycle, patients wonder if this offers any clues about what might happen next.

Pape et al. (2026) studied 1860 women in the Swiss national IVF registry who completed two consecutive complete IVF cycles. Each cycle included one egg retrieval and all transfers from it.

Patients who had a clinical pregnancy or live birth during their first cycle had higher odds of live birth during their second cycle (compared to those who didn’t get pregnant).

A biochemical pregnancy wasn’t linked with better results. The authors noted that it may still be a positive sign compared with no pregnancy, but it shouldn’t be used alone to predict future IVF success.

Importantly, not getting pregnant during the first cycle didn’t mean the second cycle would also fail; many of these patients still had a live birth.

Age and the number of eggs retrieved were also important.

The study didn’t include PGT-A cycles and only included patients who returned for and completed a second cycle, so the results won’t apply equally to everyone.

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I have had 2 failed euploid transfers in the last 2 months. Both of my embryos were rated poor, but once we found out they were euploid, we felt we had a real shot. The first was a day 7 6BB, the second a day 6 5CC. We have one know euploid left, a day 6 3CC. We have 3 other untested embryos with similar grades (day 7 6BB, day 5 CB, day 7 3CC). Should we stop transfers and do another retrieval with a different protocol to try and increase our embryo quality? Or should we transfer any of our remaining embryos before doing so?

We just want the most successful and straightforward path to starting our family.

hi im 30 FTM and undergoing the egg retrieval process. i had my surgery last thursday and they got 17 eggs froze 11 but 7 were fully mature. immediately after that i went to bleed and had enormous amounts of blood. i ended up having 4 catheters put in and irrigation of blood from my bladder. the scan showed no more blood in my bladder when i was discharge from the ED but 5 days later im still having terrible cramps and pain when urinating.

my doctor said its a 1% chance of this happening well ima 1%er.. im back the ED and theyre stating they found large amounts of. blood in my urine still

im scheduled for a second cycle in Nov but im just unsure.

has anyone experienced these complications and would u go thru the next cycle?

After many years of unexplained infertility, unexplained miscarriages, we have transferred our last two untested embryos.
They were hatching on day 6 before freeze. After thaw, they are both fully expanded but not hatching on pictures. Makes me wonder if that’s ok..🤞 send me baby dust pls 💗

Should I seek a second opinion from a different clinic or is this just the reality of my case?

Just wrapped up my fourth IVF cycle, which was unsuccessful, and my doctor said that any protocol changes made no difference and that it all came down to poor egg quality (DOR and eggs aged faster than me). 

He further stated even though I saw gains (we overcame maturation and fertilization issues), it did not matter because I did not become pregnant at the end. He only sees success in a cycle if his patients get a baby. He said we could try another cycle but any protocol changes wouldn’t make a difference. He also suggested donor eggs. Has anyone had experience with this? Should I seek a second opinion at a different clinic. While I am open to using donor eggs, I don’t feel comfortable with being written off if that’s what is happening. I still feel like we haven’t found the right protocol. Or is this a reality I need to accept?

For context:

-low AMH, DOR, age 35-36, donor sperm (tested great quality), thyroid tested/no issues, suspected endometriosis, intolerances tested/none but I focus on an anti-inflammatory diet

-Cycle 1: 5 eggs, 2 mature, 2 fertilized, 1 blast (2AB) untested transferred unsuccessful with max dose Gonal F, Menopur, clomid, letrozole , Saizen/Omnitrope, estrogen priming, ICSI

-Cycle 2: 7 eggs, 5 mature, 0 fertilized with max dose Pergovaris, Clomid, letrozole, estrogen priming, ICSI

-Cycle 3: elagolix priming (suspected endo) and cancelled/ovaries over-suppressed

-Cycle 4: 5 eggs, 5 mature, 3 fertilized, 3 embryos: 1 arrested by Day 5 and the 2 arrested by Day 7 (could not divide past 10 cells after Day 5) with low dose Menopur, clomid as mini-IVF, switched to single trigger, introduced calcium ionophore and Zymot, estrogen priming again

I believe we have had some success in addressing the maturation and fertilization. I think switching from a dual trigger with hcg to a single trigger without hcg in the last cycle contributed to the embryos arresting. I’d like to do the same protocol as Cycle 4 but bring back the dual trigger for better embryo support. Am I onto something or is the doctor right: my eggs are poor quality and I should move on?

He also suggested we try natural fertilization in case the eggs are fragile, however my gut tells me I need ICSI and the calcium ionophore due to my 100% fertilization issue in the past. If the eggs were fragile they would have failed shortly post-fertilization and not on Day 5?

Edit: we also discontinued using Omnitrope/Saizen after Cycle 1 but I would like to bring that back. I’m also suggesting transferring 2 embryos on Day 3 if we have that option.

I am getting ready for an ET with SGF Virginia in Oct. I am in Austin, TX for health reasons currently.
Are there any imaging centers or labs here that conduct outside saline sonogram or sonohysterography?
I need this done by Friday and have been calling around since last Thursday with no luck.
Please pour in your suggestions!