Early Blast ET today - Not Feeling Hopeful

[PurpleRayne89]

Just feel defeated now. This is my last rodeo as I can’t keep doing this. When I heard it was an early blast, I felt the hope leave my body and I felt so detached the entire day. I feel so sad. I had an intralipid iv day of collection and today et. I was supposed to have pred steroids but my doctor changed his mind. I’m beginning to think he isn’t hopeful either.

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Hi @PurpleRayne89 sorry to hear about how you're feeling, but I can totally relate: first fresh transfer was an early blast and I was so, so disappointed and left the clinic in tears.

That transfer didn't work but when I went in for our second round and told the embryologists how I had felt, they said that early blast had been developing well and they would have given it around 25% chance of success. I know that's not the best but that is a pretty decent chance, and I just couldn't get my head around why they didn't mention that in the first place, it would have made the tww so, so much easier!

I know it's hard, but don't give up just yet. I don't think they would have transferred the embryo if they didn't think it would work. Transfers of less developed embryos go on to success and transfers of great quality blasts fail too - it's not linear at all.

Very best of luck!

@beachbum85 Thanks for the encouragement. Sorry it didn’t work out for you. IVF isn’t made to be easy but it’s deflating at time.

Thank you @PurpleRayne89 . That was a few years ago and I'm super grateful that we had succes from the round after that one. Definitely not easy... so, so many ups-and-downs... but it can be as suprising a journey as it is deflating. I really hope you have happy news in a couple of weeks ❤

@beachbum85 im glad it worked for you. 25% is still a chance I guess. The clinic called me and they have frozen my 6 day blast as if marginally improved going from a 3BC to a 4BC. Back up plan I guess. My son was however born from a 3BC. I’ll update here next week to share the outcome.

Yes, please do, I'll be thinking of you in the meantime!
And great news that they've frozen a 6-day blast 😊