How Many Embies Are/Did you Put In?

cpedersen27 · June 2011

I will be going through IVF #1 later this year. I am 28 years old with 2 blocked tubes. I have quality eggs, ovulate fine and my husbands SA checked out fine. We have been struggling with how many we will be putting in.

Just curious what others have done or decided.

We are thinking 2 blasto and a possible reg one. We are open to Twins as this might be our only change to conceive. Any thoughts?

nancyjane5150 · June 2011

We put back two blasts for our IVF and FET. Our RE wouldn't even consider putting back more than two with me.

kkokeefe · June 2011

my RE recommended 2 because I'm 35 and I'm ok (would be thrilled) with twins. So- we are transferring 2 on Fri.

Count Choculitis · June 2011

I'm 29 years old. I have high quality eggs but because I have PCOS, my hormone levels are too screwy to ovulate on my own except for once in a blue moon. I just had my transfer yesterday of one blastocyst (a five day transfer). My RE said that in my case there would be no benefit of transferring more than one. He said it wouldn't improve my odds, even though that seems counterintuitive. I think with some women it makes sense, though, depending on what their issue is.

snoangel79 · June 2011

We are hoping to put back two. I am 32 but my egg donor is 24...

Edwina.McDunnough · June 2011

There are pretty strict guidelines for this. Please read the ASRM guidelines. You are clearly in the 1 blast transfer allowable unless they are of poor quality.

Bella2u07 · June 2011

In our situation, we transferred 2 blasts last cycle. And yesterday we transferred 2 good looking 4 day embies.....RE didn't give us a cell count or grade.

cpedersen27 · June 2011

Good Luck to you and all the other ladies going through IVF!! I wish you all well, thank you for giving me some input on your thought. I think we will go with 2 blastos since we would be thrilled with 1 or 2 babies

bubbas mama1 · June 2011

We put in 3 embies for our 1st IVF, 2 embies for our 2nd IVF which both resulted in BFN & 2 blasts for our FET.

It is truly a personal decision but it you feel you can physically, emotionally & financially handle twins then by all means I would say transfer 2 embies!

Wishing you lots of luck with whatever you decide

MAbride0808 · June 2011

I am 27 and we put back 2 embies with our last IVF and will try to put 2 back with our FET this Friday.

My RE said with our age he wouldn't ever consider more than two.

Sloane99 · June 2011

At the recommendation of our RE we are putting back two blasts. I think it depends on a number of things, your diagnosis, age, whether or not they are 5-day blasts or 3-day embies. As Edwina said, there are fairly strict guidelines, but there is also not a huge increase in pregnancy rates with two blasts transfered versus one (not sure of the rates for embryos vs blasts on thsi). I think Resolve shows some data on it, or you can look up your individual clinic's numbers.

Delta04 · June 2011

We put in 2 because of my age and egg quality. At the most, for me, they would put back 3 although I don't know if I would be willing to risk it. As stated before, it depends upon the person (age, egg quality, dx, etc). GL!

Toni79 · June 2011

As previous posters have mentioned it depends on the age, embryo quality, and dx. Although I think alot of it has to do with the embryo quality. Our RE didn't even want us to make the decision on how many to put back until both the RE and we knew the quality of the embies.

My clinic really tries to educate thier patients about the risks of multiples, even twins! They discourage the implantation of two embryos at once (though they will do it) on the basis that it does not improve your chances of conceiving, it just raises the chances you'll have twins. In other words the conception rates are about the same for one embryo transfer and two embryo transfers.

This artilce that they gave me was very helpful: "But What if I Want Twins?": https://www.shadygrovefertility.com/sites/default/files/But%20I%20want%20Twins.pdf

Before reading this I was ok with the idea of having twins. But after reading it I really understand the heath concerns of even having twins. I'd rather just have a few singletons (2-3).

My RE's rule of thumd was if your embies make it to the blastocyte stage and are high quality, they recommended only transfering one. However, if you were doing a 3 day transfer they are comfortable if you want to transfer two. Although the final decision is yours.

In addition they try to encourage single embryo transfer (sET). If you elect sET, and have any good quality left to freeze, they give you a 50% discount on the inital freezing fees.

In our case, we are unexpalined. For IVF # 1 I had 5 embies make it to day 6 blastocyte (all were highest quality). So I only transfered one. I froze the other 4 embies (and since it was sET I saved like $800 in fees). It ended up being a "chemical pregnancy", but heck that's closest to a "real" pregnancy that I've had!

I'm in IVF # 2 now (about to have my FET next week) and we're again only transfering one. However if it doesn't take this time, I think I'm going to transfer two on IVF # 3.

Defiantly talk to your RE to see what they recommed.

I hope this helps! GL!

ecleptic · June 2011

We've put back two each time. Two pretty blasts with IVF#1 (BFN) and 1blast/1morula (mc of a singleton) with FET#1. We know the risks of multiples (my SIL has triplets who came at 27 weeks from a 2 blast transfer- it was really touch and go when they were born) but we feel comfortable with the odds. Our RE will let us do 2 but not 3- which seems reasonable. He'd rather we did a single (he only wanted to transfer the blast for this FET) but he'll do 2 upon request.

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