Your Day-by-Day Embryo Development:
Key Concepts:
Day 0-1 (Click here) = The day of your egg retrieval.
Day 2 and Day 4 = No updates on these days. Embryo is left in incubator, undisturbed.
Day 3 (Click here) = Embryo anticipated to reach 6-8 cells.
Day 5 – 7 (Click here) = Embryo will potentially reach blastocyst. Max up to day 7.
Morula (MOR) = Is 2 stages before/behind the blastocyst stage
Cavitating (CAV) = Is 1 stage before/behind the blastocyst stage
Oocyte = egg
Cultured = allowed to grow
Biopsy = take a small sample and send off to outside laboratory for testing
Blastocyst = final stage of IVF embryology development.
PGS testing/PGT-A = biopsy will be done once the embryo reaches the
