Welcome to another episode of The Fertility Podcast bitesize, with The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health (CRGH) in this snippet, we’re going to be hearing from Xavier Brunetti, Deputy Head of Embryology to talk you through the lab set-up at CRGH. It’s fascinating getting to understand more about what happens post egg collection in the lab and how the Emrbyologists work and how they feel about sharing the news of what is going on with your precious embryos. So have a listen to Xavi explain more about the process.

We discuss:

• What happens after egg collection
• How they are prepared for IVF or ICSI
• What ICSI is, how it is prepared for treatment
• How the embryos start to divide over 5-6 days
• What the embryologist is looking for and what it looks like when an embryo develops abnormally
• The speed at which the embryo divides and what it shows
• When a biopsy happens
• Egg freezing
• What happens during embryo transfer and what the patient is told
• What happens when it is a frozen embryo transfer
• Embryologists contact patients and how they are always happy to explain things as much as the patient needs
• What it feels like when a patient names their baby after the embryologist

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