Fertilisation…

Waiting for the phone call from the embryologists to say how many eggs have fetilised is like waiting to be hung…

Firstly, they don’t give you a time… I spoke to another girl who had treatment at the same clinic and they called her relatively early so I was expecting the same…

My brain is like, did I give them the correct number to call them on? Do I have enough phone signal in our hotel room…? Did any fertilise? Are they drawing the short straw on who has to tell me that none made it? Upto now, I’ve been quite chilled about the whole process but i’m now having to rely on other people to do their jobs!

9 eggs collected
7 eggs mature
4 eggs fertilisted

For most women, follicles between 15-22mm will give a mature egg 80% of the time. This is just a base average overall as not everyone is the same. So out of my 9 eggs 77% were mature! I’m happy with that!

So what is a mature egg?
An egg has to go rounds of cell division to reduce the number of chromosomes in the nucleus from 46 to 23 in preperation for fertilisation. This determines whether an egg is mature.

And from the mature eggs 60-80% will generally fertilise no matter how they’re fertilised (standard IVF or ICSI) so 57% of my eggs fertilised. A numbers game…

Some people think IVF is a guarantee and it’s really not.

There is a tiny 5% chance that none of my 4 will make it to day 5. They have to tell us that – but there’s a whopping 95% chance that at least one will!

Statistically speaking I should get one maybe two to day 5. As they tell you to prepare to lose upto 50% at each stage…

40-50% of embryo’s will make it do day 5…it’s a waiting game now as thats when i’ll get the next phone call from the clinic!

The way I see it is those 3 eggs that didn’t fertilise probably never would have ever – and for those that don’t make it to day 5, probably wouldn’t have developed inside either. Waiting game!