Thoughts from the RE

I talked with my RE today about the 3-day vs. 5-day transfer.

RE explained that the reason for going to 5 day was to have a declaration of the "best" embryos, but that it does seem to somewhat stress the embies.

So, we worked together to break it down a bit, so I could be in the loop on the decision. He said if we had embies tomorrow here would be the basic decision scenario:

90% A-grade & 10% B-grade or lower --> Five-day transfer of the best 2

50% A-grade & 50% B-grade or lower --> Three-day transfer of 2 A-grade

Just noticed I didn't ask him what if they were all grade B or lower... hmmm...

The trick is to have a clear separation of which embies are "best" - if it isn't clear they would push to day 5.

He said the success rates are not way,way better on day 3 or day 5, but the "winner" is clearer - I'm thinking maybe they would transfer more embies on day 3 than day 5 typically, but not on me, since I've gotten PG 2 out of 2 IVF cycles. RE has said I'm limited to 2 - no more. :)

** edited this a bit because the last part was even hard for me to read with so many grammar mistakes and missing. :)