All but one of my 16 embryos are now 4-celled:
8 are 4-celled As
2 are 4-celled Bs
4 are 4-celled Cs
1 is a 2-celled A (this we can probably write off)
I think there is a good chance I'll get a decent number of blastocysts, of varying grades. This is the sort of thing where I'd want to do an embryo biopsy to see how many are aneuploid.
The issue is, I was stupid and left it too late, because I did not envision getting anything, after my last experience. The only lab (the Spain-based company Iviomics) doing this in India is not functional yet. We could collect the biopsied cells and freeze them down, but we need a special medium and special tubes to do this.
I just got off the phone with the Spanish guy who is the India head for this organization, and I asked him if we can overnight this from Spain to get here by Day 5 (Sunday). He said he could talk to his people and get back to me.
The other option, which I really don't like, is freeze everything down on day 3, thaw them all, herniate, and biopsy on day 5, and freeze again. This involves double vitrification, which I'm not a fan of.
The other option is going with fate--- just freezing whatever we get on day 5, transferring and seeing what happens.
Lets hope they can overnight. Even if things work out that ideally, there are still risks: the clinic does not do this routinely.
What would you guys do in my shoes- do the day 5 biopsy on Sunday (if I could get the materials on time) or go with hoping to get lucky?
8 are 4-celled As
2 are 4-celled Bs
4 are 4-celled Cs
1 is a 2-celled A (this we can probably write off)
I think there is a good chance I'll get a decent number of blastocysts, of varying grades. This is the sort of thing where I'd want to do an embryo biopsy to see how many are aneuploid.
The issue is, I was stupid and left it too late, because I did not envision getting anything, after my last experience. The only lab (the Spain-based company Iviomics) doing this in India is not functional yet. We could collect the biopsied cells and freeze them down, but we need a special medium and special tubes to do this.
I just got off the phone with the Spanish guy who is the India head for this organization, and I asked him if we can overnight this from Spain to get here by Day 5 (Sunday). He said he could talk to his people and get back to me.
The other option, which I really don't like, is freeze everything down on day 3, thaw them all, herniate, and biopsy on day 5, and freeze again. This involves double vitrification, which I'm not a fan of.
The other option is going with fate--- just freezing whatever we get on day 5, transferring and seeing what happens.
Lets hope they can overnight. Even if things work out that ideally, there are still risks: the clinic does not do this routinely.
What would you guys do in my shoes- do the day 5 biopsy on Sunday (if I could get the materials on time) or go with hoping to get lucky?
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