Hello everyone, I know this forum is old, but I am wondering if you could all give me a little update on where your second IVFs went after your first with poor egg quality.

For some background, I am 27 and just went through my first IVF Stim cycle.... things were going great, until our embryos were day 3.

We retrieved 23 eggs, 16 were mature, 12 fertilized, 9 were ongoing on day 3....

Those ongoing embryos on day 3 were slow growing and fragmented. I was absolutely devastated.

On day 5 only one made it to a blastocyst. We did a fresh transfer yesterday. I am praying this works, but know the odds of success the first time and even if it does I would one day like more children.

Today we will find out if any of our other fragmented embryos made it to blastocyst today, my doctor wasn’t optimistic.

He explained that it was surprising what happened to our embryos, since we don’t have any risk factors for it. He told me there are three potential reasons: (1) The antagonist protocol, he upped my menopur mid-way (I was on 150 gonel f and 2 vials of menopur to start, 3 vials of menopur mid-way), (2) Simply an unlucky cycle/bad month, or (3) I truly have poor quality eggs.

If this cycle fails he will talk to me in more depth about everything... but after all this time and money we’ve spent I want answers either way.

Cancelled IVF-poor/ no response to meds