Any experience with 'poor' blasts?

[hawaiibaby]

Our 5 embys dwindled to one today which on day 5 had not quite become a blast. They said it was trying to and had come on further still since they first checked it that morning but have only given a 10-15% chance of pregnancy. Gutted but trying not to mope - just wondered if anyone else has had a NOT top notch blast put back and what happened?

On the positive, our last round of icsi yielded just one emby from the start, grade 2/3 which was put back on day 2 and he's now almost 2, so my only hope is that maybe our embryos are a little slower / un textbook but can't help feeling a bit knocked and fed up

Well they never grew ours to blast as we never had enough embryos, they were put back day 3.
But we had success on 2 out of 3 EC. So 6 embryos and 2 pregnancies.
10-15% is still a chance.

Some people have lots of great looking blasts that dont work and others have success with an ok one. Its all luck

A friend who had IVF never even made it to blasts and always had poor quality 3 day embryos returned. She did have a few rounds but one of those poorer quality embryos did stick and she has a baby girl now. Similar to your first experience really. So it can happen but the odds are low. We are having a frozen 4AA embryo replaced in a few weeks and I'm under 35. Even with all of that I'm steeling myself for the fact that statistically there is a much more than 50% chance it won't work. It's such a hard process to go through.

Wishing you lots of luck for your transfer and 2ww

Thanks both, appreciate you replying. DH has been reading lots and lots of forums about 'early blasts' and 'not quite blasts' and is feeling positive - that apparently lots develop a little slower. However, like you Cheesypop, I am steering myself for the low odds - self protection I guess but we will see. Wishing you loads of luck for your frozen ET - great that it is top quality - I really hope it works for you this time.

Naty1 - That is all very true and glad that 2 out of 3 of yours stuck, that's great. It's weird, if we only had 2 and were put back early, I'd possibly be feeling more positive than now which is illogical as I would have no idea if they'd have even made it to day 5, so I think I need to readjust really to the fact that at least I know this one emby was trying to get to blast - it was just a bit of a crash after having 5 - which wasn't at all what we expected after last time. IVF is such a head f*ck!