What this card shows
The Day 3 embryo development rate card shows what share of normally fertilized eggs had reached eight or more cells by Day 3, month by month.
Eight cells on Day 3 is the on-schedule milestone at this stage. It is the last cleavage-stage checkpoint before the embryo starts compacting on its way to becoming a blastocyst.
There are two lines:
Day 3 development rate: your monthly rate.
Competency: the Vienna Consensus competency level, 45% or above.
The Vienna Consensus publishes only a competency level for this measure, not a higher benchmark, so this card has two lines rather than three.
Reading the card
The denominator is normally fertilized eggs (2PN at the Day 1 check) that were actually graded on Day 3 with a cell count. Embryos with no Day 3 grading are left out, as are Day 3 entries recorded as compacting, morula, degenerated, or other outcomes that are not cell counts.
This is a deliberate departure from the strict Vienna formula, which uses all normally fertilized eggs as the denominator. Most labs now grade at Day 5 rather than Day 3, so the strict denominator would be dominated by embryos nobody looked at rather than by embryos that developed slowly.
The practical consequence: if your lab grades only a subset of embryos at Day 3, this card describes that subset. It is not a whole-cohort figure.
Compacting and morula entries being excluded is worth understanding. An embryo that has already begun compacting is developing well, arguably ahead of an eight-cell embryo, but it has no cell count to score, so it cannot be counted either way.
The Competency line is a flat reference line from the Vienna Consensus, not a measurement from your lab.
Hover any point to see the exact figure.
The card lives on the Laboratory performance (Vienna consensus KPIs) dashboard, on the Embryo Development tab, and responds to the filters at the top:
Date: change the time window. It scopes by the date of fertilization, and defaults to the past 6 months plus the current month.
Clinic: focus on one or more locations, if your organization has several.
Treatment type, Age at cycle start and BMI: narrow to a subset of cycles.
Where this data comes from
Both halves of this card come from the Culture tab of the patient's Cycle page: the Day 1 observation carries the pronuclei grading that puts an embryo into the cohort, and the Day 3 observation carries the cell count.
The cell count is what this card reads, so a Day 3 entry recorded without one cannot be scored. As with the Day 2 cards, consistency in the timing of the check matters: an observation logged several hours late will read as further along than a same-time comparison would.
Opening this card
In wawa, open Insights from the sidebar, then go to Standard Reports → Laboratory Performance → Laboratory performance (Vienna consensus KPIs). Select the Embryo Development tab. The Day 3 embryo development rate card is on it.