Suzi Q and Trish.

This is clearly an emotive subject and for it is very interesting getting views from women who are actually living the nightmare.
Speaking personally, I have only had one stimulated cycle, adnat the risk of boring you I'll just fill you in a bit. At the clinic I use grade one is the best condition for embryos. I produced 18 eggs, 16 were used 13 fertilised. I had two grade one 8 cell embryos put back and that was a negative result. This last time i used two of my frozen embryos. One survived completely in tact remaining as 8 cells grade one and one 7 cell reduced to 4 cells, grade two. Negative again.

What I want to say is, for me, when I seem to be producing good quality embryos, my lining looks excellent at the time of transfer, I for one am bewildered as to why it won't work. Maybe for us, blastocyst transfer would show us whether these embryos are going to make it to the next stage. I hate the thought of having them put back only for them to die almost immediately, and therefore I effectively worrying for nothing for two weeks, getting the inevitable negative. Maybe having blasts transferred would remove that factor. Is it better to transfer nothing, than to transfer something and get nothing? I totally hear your point that thousands of women have successful pregnancies and babies from two day transfer. I hoped I'd be one, and if I'm honest I assumed that it would work first time. After all I'm young, no uterus problems, no cycle problems and the reason we're going through this isdown to a poor sperm count. Surely it would work for us straight away.

As with every woman I want the best result NOW. By any means neccesary. The debate is helpful, it gives me questions to put to my consultant. Having not made up my mind regarding 3 day or blast transfer i need all the help I can get befroe I have to decide.