Blastocyst transfer- Dr Sarita Teotia

Blastocysts are the incubated embryos after five or six day’s growth. Best quality embryos are selected and separated from the rest at this stage only. These separated high quality embryos are then cultured in the incubator. Out of these incubated embryos which were best amongst a lot, one or two are selected to be implanted in womb. These selected incubated embryos are blastocysts.

Pregnancy shall be successful only if these blastocysts stick themselves to the wall of womb after implantation. And this is the reason for implanting more than one blastocyst. So that atleast one of them attaches itself to the walls of womb.

Blastocyst transfer improves the IVF success rate. This works well with younger women with reasonable pregnancy probability and good quality embryos. Because, blastocyst transfer shall be successful only if embryos are of good quality. 

This process of blastocyst transfer helps achieving success in pregnancy because blastocysts are more robust and strengthened embryos of six days incubation than that of normal embryos of two or three day’s growth.

But as nothing in this world is infallible, so is the process of blastocyst. There are few setbacks and risks associated with it. Firstly, due to poor motility, sometimes embryos don’t show any development after day two when it reaches four cell stage. So it is not possible to incubate and select blastocyst. Next is that there are chances of as number of multiple births as number of blastocysts are transferred.

If you need more information on the subject matter, feel free to contact Dr Sarita teotia at http://www.drsaritateotia.com/ or info@adamandevenoida.com .