Embryos Stopped Growing at Day 3? 3 Questions Before You Go Again

Failed IVF? Embryos arrested at Day 3? Told it was your egg quality? Book a free Functional Fertility Second Opinion before your next retrieval → fabfertile.com

Day three, you got the call that your embryos were developing, and you let yourself feel hopeful. Day five, there is nothing to transfer, and you are told it was your egg quality.

Then you read online that embryos stopping after day three could point to sperm. So now you do not know what actually happened, or whether anything is left to investigate before you go again.

Your clinic may have had good reasons for saying egg quality. They also cannot test it directly. That makes it a conclusion rather than a finding, and it is usually where the investigation stops.

In this episode, what I would want looked at before another retrieval includes the 90 days before stimulation started and his side beyond a semen analysis that came back fine.

Preparing is not the same as being evaluated.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Day three looked fine. Day five, there was nothing to transfer
01:20 Why egg quality is a conclusion, not a test result
04:00 The 90 days before the retrieval, for both of you
05:30 Blood sugar, the full thyroid picture, inflammation and nutrients
09:30 His side beyond the semen analysis

FUNCTIONAL FERTILITY SECOND OPINION

Book with your partner and load your labs. We review your bloodwork for patterns your clinic is not set up to examine, and talk through what is worth investigating before another retrieval or transfer. It is not IVF or your health. It is both. Book here → second opinion

ABOUT THE HOST

I'm Sarah Clark, founder of Fab Fertile and host of Get Pregnant Naturally, a podcast with over one million downloads. My functional fertility team works with couples navigating low AMH and failed IVF, reviewing functional lab results, gut microbiome, food sensitivity, vaginal microbiome, nutrigenomics, HTMA, DUTCH, toxin testing, and bloodwork alongside nervous system work, to help identify patterns that may not have been considered. We work alongside your medical team, not instead of them.

Sarah Clark, founder of Fab Fertile, host of Get Pregnant Naturally (1M+ downloads), and author of Fabulously Fertile.