Assist To Hatch

PrayingMom2Be

Hi all!
Had my first FET (2nd IVF attempt) this afternoon with one grade A embryo and according to the embryologist she did an assist to hatch. I don't think we had this done with our fresh cycle so I was wondering if anyone can shed a little light on this?
Is it common, do they only do it with frozen embryos, why wasn't it done the first time and I'm wishing that they would've done it to begin with!?
BETA is scheduled for the 14th, prayfully this baby decides to stay around and stick!

Well wishes to all in this journey!!

gkamerman78

I have my FX for you I had my frozen transfer today and we chose to transfer 2 embryos this time. I have heard of assisting hatching it just helps the embryo to push out of the egg shell. But on another note my beta is the 14th too. It makes me really excited that there's someone on here on the same schedule as me...:-) Personally I don't think it's a good or bad thing to have the assisted hatching it's just helpful. Good luck and keep us posted.

MrsBwIVF

It is extremely common to have them assist hatch for frozen cycles, it sort of jump starts the process.
Our fresh cycle did not have assist hatch and our frozen did. Both of our embryos took with the frozen and we are currently 23w with twins.
Good luck and try not to stress too much about it all, which I know is hard. Fx for your bfps!

PrayingMom2Be

@gkamerman78 I'll have everything crossed for the both of us!! Please keep me posted as well and let's pray our embies decide to stick and stay around with us!!

@MrsBwIVF congrats on your twins, such exciting and amazing news!! Thanks for the info and with the assist to hatch I pray it works for us! We only had one embie to transfer so if this doesn't work we're back to square one.
Although I have read so many success rates with FET at their second try so I'm staying positive!!

Continued prayers for all during this IVF journey!!