A MUST READ-- Embryo Growing Update!

This morning I received an update on the embryos growing from L.  I am copying and pasting it with her permission to give the stats on the embies.

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Hi Melanie,

 

Just heard from Gail and also got a call from Dr L. They have been able to give us a lot more detail on the embryos and their development potential.

 

Today all five are still going, but they are considered 'decent quality' rather than top quality.

 

They are growing more slowly than they would have hoped, and there is some level of fragmentation:

1. Yesterday 5 cell frag 15, today the same
2. Yesterday 3 cell frag 15, today 5 cell and frag 20
3. Yesterday 3 cell frag 15, today 5 cell and frag 20
4. Yesterday 2 cell frag 15, today 4 cell frag 10
5. Yesterday 2 cell frag 15, today 6 cell frag 10

They've said it's still way to early to tell where we'll get to on Sat, but Dr L has said that he has some concerns, and this might be due to egg quality. 

 

There is no update tomorrow, so we'll hear more on Sat. If they are still growing then, but not at Blastacyst stage then they've said that they will keep growing them to Sunday.

 

I've asked Gail about her experience of success rates based on the above. She said that it's too early to tell, and that we should all regroup on Monday once we know what we actually have.

 

Fingers, toes, everything else crossed over the next few days.

  

-L

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What does this mean?  Well nothing right now.  Except that we need every single reader around the world to cross what ever it is that you have to cross and think positive thoughts.  We have 5 embryos still growing which is a great thing but they do have fragmentation and they are growing slower than they would like for them to.  But as the saying goes in the surrogacy world "An ugly embie can make a beautiful baby!"  Right now we have 5 potential babies hanging in there and trying to grow.  Let's just pray that they make it to the genetic testing.  This is all out of our hands now and we have to just keep thinking positively!  I know all of  our readers are wishing us the best of luck so please, just think happy thoughts for us!!  I will update more as soon as we have another report!