Day 5 Blastocyst Stage

Today we found out how many of our fertilized eggs have progressed to the blastocyst embryo stage.  We were able to get 10 good eggs from egg retrieval, 6 of those 10 eggs fertilized, and 3 of those 6 fertilized eggs have made it to the blastocyst stage.  The lab technician said that it is typical to have approximately half of the fertilized eggs reach the blastocyst stage, so we are still on track.  However, knowing that a large percentage are typically genetically abnormal, we were hoping for more than 3 embryos that could be biopsied and tested.  Now we just have to pray and wait to hear how many are chromosomally normal.  We should hear this news by the end of next week (April 26).