questions about the cell grades

[danyel]

hey ladies... I had Er on Sunday they got 15 eggs.. yesterday they called and 10 had fertlizaed.. the nurse called this moring.. and I have 7 2cell.. 2 3cell and 1 4 cell...I was hopin to make to to 5 day trasfer.. but what do ya'll think of how my little embies are growing ?? she said she will call in the moring.. and see what we will do.. I just would like to get some advice.. thanks

[nicaliw]

I think the expectation is that they will be 2 cells by day following ER, 4 cells by day 2, 8 cells by day 3 etc......I don't know about your RE, it seems there are some many differences in practice by all the REs judging by what I have read here. Good luck to you, though!

[cornybaby]

There are some pictures of embryo development/timing here if you want to check it out. The whole website is actually quite interesting. Good luck!

http://www.sharedjourney.com/articles/dev.html

[kellym]

Danyel,
As my RE told me, so long as they continue to develop you are in good shape. I had my ER on Saturday, on Sunday I got the call to tell me that 6 out of 10 had fertilized. Then yesterday they called to tell me that 4 of the 6 were 2-cell and 2 of the 6 were 4-cell. i asked how that was and they said that they were all fine. I started feeling really down because I thought that 2-cell embies were considered slow.

When I went in today for my ET we had 3 8-cell embryos - so one of the 2-cell embies caught up. It is hard to say how they are on day 2, i really think they will have a better idea on day 3. Hang in there!

And don't lose hope if you have a 3-day transfer. There are many many success stories from 3-day transfers!