Don't let your clinic dispose of low-grade embryos

Figures show low-quality embryos are not the disaster some clinics make them out to be.

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We all know that IVF is a numbers game, but my god, not since A-Level results day 2004 has my emotional wellbeing been as closely linked to a set of numbers as it was in the week after my egg collection.

If you’re not there yet, here’s how it goes: Once you’ve got through the agony of discovering how many follicles you have, and the agony of finding out how many eggs were (or weren’t) collected, and the agony of being told how many embryos there are, and the agony of finding how many embryos survived to day three/five/six, then you reach the essay question: what quality are your embryos?