Frozen Hope by Jacqui Cooper

Author:Jacqui Cooper [Cooper, Jacqui]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The First Two-week Wait

I’d be sitting up in bed with my laptop at 3 o’clock in the morning, clicking on page after page of discussion threads about the 2WW and all the signs I should watch out for to confirm I was pregnant. The incredibly frustrating thing was that the women who were sharing their stories online would suddenly stop and I’d be left hanging. I’d never find out if they got pregnant or not. It was excruciating.

AN EMBRYO THAT HAS REACHED the five-day mark in an incubator and is still growing strong is considered the gold standard. In some circumstances, a clinic will recommend that the transfer occur on the third day, giving the embryo its best chance to grow inside the mother. This will usually happen when there is only one viable embryo left. With no other embryos to choose from, all hopes for a successful cycle rest on the single survivor and it is thought the uterus is the best place for it.

It’s good to get to Day 5 though. Day 4 is often when an embryo drops off, so if it’s still going a day later it may be a serious contender for pregnancy. Roshan prefers to do transfers on Day 5 when the embryo has (hopefully) progressed to blastocyst stage. A blastocyst is made up of multiple cells that will one day be the placenta, and a cluster of cells that will be the foetus. A 5-day blastocyst sitting in an incubator in a fertility lab looks exactly the same as a 5-day blastocyst inside a uterus in a non-assisted pregnancy.

At City Fertility, when a 5-day embryo has reached blastocyst stage and is ready to be either placed back into the mother or frozen, the embryos are graded according to their quality:

A: Perfect. The highest quality for transferring or freezing

AB, BA and BB: Okay for transferring or freezing

BC: May be worth transferring or freezing

C, D: Not worth transferring or freezing

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