Embryos

The embryologist called this morning and of the 21 eggs that were retrived, 20 were mature enough to inseminate with sperm (ICSI). This moring we had 13 embryos still growning. Below is a picture from the Texas Fertility website that shows what our embyros look like today!

Picture of a fertilized egg observed in the morning of the day after the egg retrieval procedure or 17-19 hours following sperm injection (ICSI). The two circular structures observed in the middle of the oocyte are called pronuclei, which contain the genetic material from the parents. A normally fertilized egg should have two of these structures one derived from the sperm (paternal) and the other from the egg (maternal).