I don't think I really care what we are having....but I am just curious....
We did IVF and ended up transferring a blastocyst. Then of course googled blastocyst and gender a million times. All the studies I found seemed like a "slight" more chance for a boy up to some saying 60%. But when I look at peoples bios, etc. on other sites it looks like blastocyst is at least 95% boys. Just curious is anyone had a blastocyst transfer and ended up with a girl.
Our RE said he still thinks it is around 50/50 in his practice.
Thanks!
Re: Just curious....anyone have a girl that started as a blastocyst?
You made me curious too, since I did a 3dt. I found this study which certainly seems to back up the claim that blastocyst transfer has a much higher incidence of being male. Page 2 is particularly interesting.
https://www.rmany.com/pdf/blastocystembryotransfer.pdf
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5/10 - 1st IVF cycle - BFN
FET - 10/12/10 - BFN
1/11 - IVF with PGD - BFN
IVF - May - BFN
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9/11 - IVF - 4 transferred
10/13 - BFP!!
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I did PGD on my last cycle and there were 4 girls and a boy in the batch. Did not get to ET but these were what they were at day 5
Multiple ectopics, 2 failed IVF's
IVF #1: Did not get to ET, embies all failed PGD (major chromosomal defects)
IVF #2: We have 2 chromosomally perfect embies as a result of PGD (Boy/Girl) 1 failed the thaw (Girl) Transferred 1, yet ended as a c/p
Thought it was the end of our TTC Journey 6/20/2012
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Little A born 38w 2d on 05/23/13 and is a true miracle for this IF Vet!
Me: PCOS DH: Low everything (MFI)
Clomid with TI x 3 2010 BFN
Clomid+IUI+Ovidrel 2010 BFN
IVF w/ICSI #1 2011
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FET 1 3/2013 BFN
FET 2 5/2013 BFN
I think I found a paper that states that they found the same thing-- more boys with blast transfer, but those that were done with ICSI helps to skew the ratio in the other direction (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19731005). I don't put a lot of cred in some of these studies as they don't do a very large sample size or look across multiple locations. But it is interesting to contemplate and wonder about
IVF #1 ET 1 d3 embryo 10/30/11 BFP
3 Embryos frozen (1 d5, 2 d6)
DS born 07/29/12
FET #1 ET 1 d5 embryo 02/10/15 BFN
FET #2 1 d6 embryo didn't survive thaw, transferred last d6. CP
There was someone a month or more ago that linked to an article that looked at the IVF gender ratio in Australia. I don't remember the exact numbers but apparently live births in Australia are more than 50% boys. With regular IVF, they saw about the same rate of boys. With IVF with ICSI, they saw more than 50% girls. According to that study, IVF didn't skew the gender ratio unless ICSI was involved. Even then, though, it was something like 50 or 51% girls with ICSI.
They didn't break down the live births by types of embryo (blast or pre-blast) transferred.
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IVF #1 - long lupron (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 4 retrieved, 3 fertilized; ET 2 blasts and 1 frozen = BFN
IVF #2 - a version of antagonist with EPP (with HGH, intralipids, lovenox and BA); 6 retrieved, 4 mature, 3 fertilized, 2 blasts and 1 frozen blast transferred on day 5 = BFN.
IVF #3 April was postponed to May, May was canceled. June/July was canceled. Had a cyst aspiration and then began IVF #3 in August. ER on 8/22; ET on 8/24 with AH. +HPT on 9/5. Beta #1 (11dpo) = 3; Beta #2 (15dpo) = 29; Beta #3 (17dpo) = 60; Beta #4 (19 dpo) = 118. Heartbeat at 6 weeks 6 days =132. Lil is here!
TTC#2: Trigger + TI = BFN; Clomid + Trigger + IUI = BFN.
IVF #4: BCP + MDLF + Lovenox = 7R, 1F = Transferred 1 6-cell embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #5: MDLF + Lovenox = 4R, 1F = Transferred 1 10-cell compacting embryo on day 3 = BFN
IVF #6: (New RE): Long Antagonist November 2014 (transferred two 8 cell grade 1 embryos and froze one blast) = BFN
FET#1: BFN
I would buy that IVF with ICSI has a slightly higher girl percentage because X-chromosome sperm are larger than Y-chromosome sperm, and since the embryologist is choosing the individual sperm to inject in the egg, they may choose a larger one since it might be easier to determine that it is shaped correctly?
Me: PCOS DH: Low everything (MFI)
Clomid with TI x 3 2010 BFN
Clomid+IUI+Ovidrel 2010 BFN
IVF w/ICSI #1 2011
9/8/11 Beta #1: 2082!! 9/19/11 Beta#2 34,689!! U/S 9/22/11 HR 127! 11/8/11 HR 150! 12/6/11 HR 136! 12/14/11 HR 139! Born at 26w2d on 2/4/2012! After 83 days in the NICU, Adalyn came home on 4/26/12!
FET 1 3/2013 BFN
FET 2 5/2013 BFN
Referred to RE February 2011 : Me - PCOS, DH - 1% morph
IVF with ICSI #1 ~ Long Lupron starting 06/26/11, stims 07/05/11, ER 07/14/11 - 19 eggs, 16 mature, 15 fertilized!
07/19/11 - transferred two embies (5AA and 4AA), 7 frosties!
Betas...07.27.11 ~ 11...07.30.11 ~ 41...08.01.11 ~ 84...08.03.11 ~ 221...08.05.11 ~ 579
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