Hello girls,
Trish, I wasn't quoting anyone specific, as you know all clinics crow on about their own success rates. I used rounded up/down percentages in my original post. Concept has a success rate with Day 2 embryos of about 24% and with blasts of about 45%.
I expect every person can decide for themselves whether or not an embryo that doesn't survive in the petri dish may or may not have gone on to become a pregnancy. Dr Smith obviously doesn't, and he is rightly entitiled to his opinion, as is anyone else who also believes this. I also know many doctors (and I've said earlier that my doctor is one of them) who believe that an embryo which succumbed in the petri dish may have survived in the natural environs of your body, and unfortunately, it's one of those things that can never be proved by either side.
I agree with my Dr simply because I know women, including our own Magic, who had her gorgeous
DD with a grade 3 embryo transferred at Day 2.
When I put up the post, it was mainly for anyone who was still deciding on which way to go to get some information as was given to me by my Dr. Mind you, I, like you sararms, ended up doing a blast transfer for the same reasons (wanting to see if my embryos were making it past Day 3), but alternatively, the reason it took me 7 cycles to make the decision was because, as I discussed above, I was happy to take my chances with a low grade embryo in case I was missing out on the possibility of getting
pg, like Magic did. In the end, with so many failures under my belt, I needed to know if
any were getting past Day 3.
So it is, and will always be, a personal decision. I wanted to give a fair balance of both sides, so anyone who was trying to make up their minds could gather some information.
But having said that, I fell
pg on a blast transfer. Do I believe that's why I fell
pg? No. And again, this is simply because I believe this little'un would have made it whether it was a Day 2 or a blast. But that's just my opinion.
love
sushee