In this episode, Prof Chapman answers listener questions on what couples can do to improve their chances of a healthy pregnancy, and why the basics of not smoking, moderate drinking and a healthy weight matter far more than trendy diets or supplements. He explains Asherman’s syndrome, how scarring of the uterine cavity can prevent implantation, how often it occurs after a D&C, and why a hysteroscopy is worth considering after two unsuccessful embryo transfers. He also discusses the rare problem of failed fertilisation after ICSI, and how both egg and sperm should be investigated before trying oocyte activation in another cycle.

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In this episode, Prof Chapman explains how embryologists grade a day five blastocyst and what those numbers and letters actually mean for your chances of pregnancy. He walks through the development scale from one to five, the A to D grades for the inner cell mass that becomes the baby and the outer layer that forms the placenta, and why the gap between an AA and a BB is only a few percentage points. Prof Chapman also shares when pregnancy rates start to fall away, why a C grade is still worth transferring, and how the grading system pioneered by Melbourne scientist David Gardner became the global standard.

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In this episode, Prof Chapman explains what it means when embryos repeatedly fragment across multiple IVF cycles, and how to work out whether the cause lies with the lab, the sperm or the egg. He shares how the timing of fragmentation can point towards sperm DNA issues, why egg quality is the more common culprit even in younger women, and how a specialised polarised light technique lets his team look inside the egg to see the meiotic spindle. Drawing on a decade of his own research, Prof Chapman explains why this insight can finally give patients a clear answer before their next attempt.

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