Embryo Report - Day 4

Flowers from my Mom from her garden.  They smell amazing!

Today's embryos should be compacting and forming Morulae. Cells at the Morula stage are not as distinct in shape so they do not get graded, but the rest that are still dividing and haven't quite made it to the Morulae stage yet still get the same grade scale of good, fair and poor.

Here is our report:

Morula-stage embryo

3 - complete Morulae
2 - 8 cell (graded good)
2 - 8 cell (graded fair)
1 - 7 cell (graded fair)
3 - 6 cell (graded fair)
1 - 4 cell (graded fair)
2 - 1 cells discarded today

The 3 that have completed the Morulae stage are right on track and have a very good chance of making it to tomorrow.  Our embryologist said that the 8 cells and the 7 cells are still growing so we need to check tomorrow to see if they have started to compact.  If they do, then they will be considered viable as well.   The 6 cells and the 4 cells have pretty much slowed down.  They are still technically growing, but there isn't very much hope for them to survive the night.  So now we are down to 8 viable embryos.  I had to end the call with the conversation of destroying the two 1 cell embryos so those are no longer with us.

Thanks for reading,
HEATHER