To wonder what it feels like to actually get that BFP?

[ICanButDream]

Just about to start my 6th fresh cycle of IVF. We’ve been TTC for 6 years. We are going to ARGC (super expensive clinic with insane success rates) having saved for much longer to bring out the big guns. we Discovered additional issues recently (minor) which have been corrected and the new clinic think our chances are “very good”.

I know better than to get my hopes up as I’ve been ripped to pieces by infertility but cannot and will not give up.

Nevertheless, I am dating to dream this evening and would love to know what it actually feels like to get that BFP, particularly if you’ve been receiving fertility treatment?

I’m changing my approach this time round. Usually i am cautious to soften the almighty blow when a much-invested in cycle fails. This time I am doing the opposite but I cannot ever imagine being pregnant if that makes sense.

Mine was fear too incase it didn't last,you know so early with IVF that a pregnancy would be lost and barely noticed if you we conceiving naturally.I started with twins and had bleeding for8weeks ,thought I'd lost the entire pregnancy,as one failed.However my DD is now 14 and worth the angst at the time.Wishing you all the very best.

Complete joy and shock - I was watching the results of a magic trick. After years of TTC, various treatments and then IVF there were finally two lines on the test. One was very faint, and I tested again every day for weeks, just to be sure.
But now two years after I did that test I have an amazing toddler on my knee. It was so hard, but every bit worth it to meet the little person who has become the love of my life (and thankfully my husband’s life too!).

I got my positive test on Valentine's Day 2011, after 5 years of trying. I did the test at home after an early shift and could barely talk when I called DH to tell him. Utterly surreal. That was my one and only pregnancy.

Good luck!

Stitchosaurus

I tested 4 days after you then! 18th of February 2011!

A friend of mine had many years of IVF and is now 32 weeks pregnant with a dream result - twins 😍. She said it was utterly surreal and she still can't believe it.

Lots and lots of luck OP, hope it works for you 🤞🏻

I have PCOS. We had loads of tests, several rounds of Clomid with the doses getting higher. Decided to give up trying. I felt unwell for a while, went to the doctor, gave him my symptoms and he asked if I thought I could be pregnant. I just sat there looking at him and thinking "idiot, of course not". He said I had to have a test and we'd see where to go from there. Had a test, wandered off for a coffee (he said the results would take about about hour) eventually wandered back. The doctor came out and called me back in straight away and said Congratulations. I just sat there looking at him. He repeated it and I said "are you sure it's me, I've been here before". It was me, I was the only one who had a pregnancy test that day. I was stunned into silence. Next day a scan showed I was about 17 weeks along.

Second time, I tested at home. Got a positive and decided it was probably wrong because I bought the cheapest test I could find. Went out to get a "better" one. Still positive! 14 weeks along that time.

Both times were a shock, disbelief, worry and heart bursting joy, once it sunk in.

Got pregnant naturally at 35 after many years of trying and two failed rounds of ICSI. I was waiting for an operation to remove an ovarian cyst and we were really at our lowest ebb, knowing assisted conception was very unlikely to work and it would be ages before we could try again anyway. It was a massive shock and at first I felt completely numb, afraid to get attached and certain the test was wrong or the pregnancy would fail. My husband was overjoyed though and we started to plan together and I began to worry less and get excited. She's 6 now. Good luck with everything, I wish you the best.

On the first one I did think I might be pregnant before I took the test because I had got to day 16 without a bleed. On the two negative cycles I bled on day 14. I think my feeling was relief. Unfortunately we lost that baby.
With the second I did an early test because I felt pregnant. That time is was relief that I had got pregnant again but I didn't believe there would be a baby at the end of it till he was here.

I really hope it works for you. It took us 6 years.

I have PCOS and had always been convinced it wouldn't happen for me, even going as far as to warn my (now) DH when we met 12 years ago!
When I got my BFP I was shocked and just stared at it, holding it very still- almost as though it was an etch-a-sketch I could easily shake away if l wasn't too careful! My mind then raced with visions of my baby and me being a parent and I literally felt like I glided into work- there was no wiping the smile off my face that day!
I did become anxious later on/ throughout the pregnancy but mostly I remained elated and so so thankful

A surreal dream-like shock! We’d been trying for over 2 years and I was one of those women who were about to start IVF...(yep I’d hated them too!!)
My third and fourth pregnancies (the babies I took home) were also fraught with utter fear.
But my god, seeing that second blue line appear, goosebumps!
Wishing you the very best of luck

Sending you all the luck in the world OP, I really hope you get your BFP 💐 x

Good luck, OP

I got my BFP from ARGC this year after 5 years, 5 fresh rounds of ivf and a total of 11 fresh and frozen transfers

It was mostly a feeling of disbelief and trying not to get too ahead of ourselves but they will take really good care of you, and the blood tests and scans between BFP and signing you over to maternity care at your local hospital will keep you sane(ish)

The IVF support boards here are invaluable, if you're not already on them...