Grade B embryos on day three are very good quality embryos (they should have given you a good chance to get pregnant) although perhaps not perfect or they would have been graded A. They may have had a minor degree of fragmentation which is common and has very little negative impact on the outcome. I think you should have had a good chance to get pregnant in your IVF cycle if the assumptions I have made are correct. If you are under thirty-five years of age, you should have had about a 50–60 percent chance of a pregnancy with two embryos like that transferred on day three after egg retrieval.
You didn’t say if you had additional embryos that were good enough in quality to freeze. If you did, you have another good opportunity to get pregnant at a much lower cost if you do a frozen embryo replacement cycle. The pregnancy rates from frozen cycles can be as high as 40 percent (check with your individual center, the success rates may vary from one center to another) and they are usually a fraction of the cost of a fresh IVF stimulation.
The important point here is that frozen cycles are almost as good as the fresh at a fraction of the cost. Discuss with your doctor how you did in your cycle and by all means try again; it sounds like you are a good candidate to be successful! Good luck!
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