IVF girls: What grade were your embryos?

Dori722

I'm just curious to see what type of embryos result in a pregnancy. If you got pregnant via IVF, how many times did you try and what grading did your embryo(s) have? Thanks!

Ruthie04

IVF #1: 1 grade aa day 5 blast (my clinic's perfect grade)...negative

IVF #2: 1 Grade bb day 5 blast was upgraded to ab within minutes of transfer (went from "fair" to "good") and 1 day 5 early blast (so slow it couldn't even be graded)...pregnant with twins! 

UMichGirl

I got pregnant on our first IVF cycle.  We transferred two expanded blasts on day 5...they were graded 4AB and 4BA (our RE gave them an overall "A-" grade haha).  One stuck!

kelnyc

Ours weren't given a grade because they only do that for day 5 embies, but we transferred 2 "unbelievable" 8+ cell embies on day 3 and are pg with 1.

April+

1st IVF - 2 (8 - celled embryos) on day 3. Grade 1 (best) and the other was grade 2 (less than 10% fragment). 

Mrs.AmyDylan

We are pregnant from our first IVF. We transferred two. Both were day three grade 2 embryos (10-20% fragmentation). We are pregnant with one!

amandaleigh1

I think that these questions are why my embryologist would not give our embryos grades at our transfer. Because you can't always judge how they will do by just looking at them. She just said to us on our day 3 transfer which one she thought was the best looking one and why, in non-quantitative terms-- it is not growing too fast or two slow, it is beginning to compact, and doesn't have that much fragmentation. I still don't think it was all the pretty looking in the photo they gave us compared to some I have seen of other people's, but it stuck. So you just never know.  I know people who have had slow poke morulas on day 5 turn into healthy babies, too.  

I tried IVF once and transferred one 3d compacting 10ish cell embryo. 

krismott25

I can't remember exactlly but....

IVF 1: all arressted but 2 and they were very poor grade

IVF 2: all arressted but 3 and they were a hair better then IVF 1

IVF 3: we changed and did a 3 day instead of 5dt; Grades are in my siggy and I'm pg with twins.

After loads of my own research I found that if there are quality issues before day 3 then that's sperm, if there are quality issues after day 3 that's egg issues. If it's egg issues then you should consider 3dt. I begged and begged for this from my RE for IVF3, basically forcing her hand the night before. Everything always looked stellar for us for the first 2-3 days, then wham they'd all arrest and or be really poor quality. If we ever go back for a 3rd baby I will only entertain a 3dt of 1high quality embryo. Hope this helps

lovemygs

#1 - transferred one early blast and one morula, one stuck but I m/c

#2 - transferred one beautiful blast, one early blast, and one morula, one stuck and divided 

MAbride0808

IVF #1 - 8 cell A and 9 cell A = negative

FET - 2 8 cell A = negative

IVF # 2- 2 day 5 morulas = negative

IVF # 3- 2 8 cell with no fragmentation =positive

KDR1979

IVF #1- 2 "beautiful" blasts= c/p

FET # 1- 3 beautiful blasts= twin m/c

IVF # 2 messed up ganirelix dose (due to RN mistake)-terrible 2 day transfer

IVF # 3- 2 decent blasts=BFN

IVF # 4= 1st day 3 transfer with assisted hatching. one 7 cell grade 1, one 8 cell grade 1 (RE said grade 1 was the best) and a 10 cell grade 3= bfp & twin pregnancy!

 

purpleyes1081

Got pregnant on IVF#1. Transfered 2embryos. One 8cell with no fragmentation and one 6 cell. 

Ccjones85

IVF #1 we did a 5 day transfer with a 5BB & 4AB. The best rating at our clinic is 5AA.... still don't know how many stuck. 

sekura

I did a donor egg FET--transferred one "perfect" blast, and am PG with a singleton.

4legsRbest

IVF #1: 3dt so grades vary wildly. We transferred 3:

1 x 7 cell grade B. 1 x 7 cell grade C and fragmented. 1x 5 cell grade C and fragmented

We are just guessing that the 7 cell grade B is the one that made - the other two were highly criticized by our embryologist.

limpetfan

To be honest, I don't think there's a "type" of embryo that results in a pregnancy, while there are other "types" that do not.  I think it's a bad idea to over-analyze embryo grades.  It can psyche you out unnecessarily. 

That said, I did spend massive amounts of time over-analyzing embryo grades over the course of 3 fresh IVF cycles, so here are my stats:

At my clinic 1 = early blast and 5 = expanded blast; A = highest grade and D = lowest grade.  I always did 5-day transfers.

 IVF #1: transferred (1) 2BB- blast and (1) 1BC blast.  Nothing to freeze.  Did not get pregnant.

IVF #2: transferred (2) 2CC blasts and (1) OK-looking morula.  Nothing to freeze.  Did not get pregnant.

IVF#3: transferred (1) 1BB blast, (1) 1BC blast and (1) 1CC blast.  The 1BC blast had been a 1CD blast an hour before the transfer.  We wound up with (1) embryo to freeze on day 6 (a 6BB), and on day 5 that embryo had been a 1CD blast.  I am pregnant with one baby. 

 Hope that helps! 

angela2004

We only did IVF once.

We got 5 eggs but only one made it to a 3 day transfer. That one was a grade B, 4 cell, fair. I am now pregnant with that one egg :-)

Pnut30

As far as I know the grading is only based on the "appearance" of the embryos. Our clinic didn't really give us a grade but our Dr. said it was a "very good looking blastocyst" on day 5.  On day 3 we still had 10 growing so that was why they pushed us out to day 5.

This was our first IVF, we transferred one on day 5 and are pregnant with one baby.

When I was going crazy researching stuff I found this website quite helpful:

https://www.advancedfertility.com/blastocystimages.htm

There is a lot of info on both day 3 and day 5 embryo grading, just keep in mind your clinic might not use the same system this clinic does.

Good Luck!!

sbrowns08

We transferred two embryos on day 3 that were both grade 4 (our clinics highest) at ten and twelve cells. We are pregnant with one baby!

hunterjumper102

We had 1 embryo on day 3 that was graded a 2.  Our clinic grades day 3 transfers on a 1-5 scale 1 being the highest.

As other have said you have to take the embryo grading with a grain of salt because so many people have success with so many different grades.  Also keep in mind it can be hard to distinguish what we say and compare it to what your clinic grades because each clinic grads their embryo's differently. 

jennifer2033

I had one "poor early blast" and one "early blast", 3 others that didn't make it to freeze, pregnant with one.

cindyc24

We are on IVF #1 but we had to do a Frozen Transfer due to OHSS. We transferred two 5day 4AB embies. At least one stuck...we'll find out on u/s in the next week or two if both stuck.