IVF - A supportive group of ladies at various stages of the ivf journey.

[Dbear35]

A super group of women supporting each other and sharing their personal journeys and experiences during the IVF processs. All are welcome !

Janefx40, yes I agree with [Liverpool19], trust your body and give them a ring, if only to relax. Or just call to go in? When I felt something strange I just got ready and went to my clinic. They saw me straight away....

Fingers crossed all will proceed well sweetie

XXX

Hi lovely ladies!!

Finally got some time to catch up on your journeys!

Jane Definitely call the clinic and tell them about the headaches better to be safe and have them check you or provide additional progesterone.

Minster I hope your NIPT test all comes back fine and dandy  and that you had a good wk/end in London!

Liverpool valentine’s day How exciting, good to hear your being positive it’s a crazy journey this IVF business so positivity is key. Be prepared for ups and downs and bloating lots of bloating especially towards the end of the stims…oh and prune juice is your friend. Trust me!!

star how lovely your be cycle buddies with Liverpool its’ so nice to have others along with you for the ride. There are a few ladies that I’ve spoken to on Instagram that are all having FET around the same day as me it makes a difference to know you not on your own.

So jealous of your Naples and Milan trips enjoy my lovely!

dinks 20 weeks scan must be coming up this wk or next right !! where did they go !? it’s amazing isn’t it and such a milestone. Selling a house before you have baby your slightly crazy but good luck with it all it’s can’t be any more stressful than IVF!

rose yay to telling your mum, I dream about the day I can do the same she is desperate to be a grandmother and I’m feeling the pressure.

aliona How are you darling? Have you had a baseline yet? Did AF finally go away?

This morning I had my final baseline and all is good it’s at 9.2 so thickening up nicely the husband was tres proud! LOL So no more injections for me I have two whole days off just on tablets ….and then the bottom bullets commence I am not looking forward to those they send me loopy! However it does mean that FET is on for Feb 6th eakkkkkk!!!

I have been waking up for the past few night’s worries and anxious about this FET, will it work, will my embies thaw ok? I am trying to be more positive but the doubt and worry do creep in at night. Perhaps I’m just going to be more realistic about this round.

Much love to all

xxxxxx

Wow more going on!

jane did you speak to your clinic? I hope it’s going ok? I definitely agree with the others, call them as they are there to support us so do it to put your mind at rest! I hope you are keeping yourself busy otherwise in the 2ww 😁

dbear wooooo go 6th Feb! How you feeling?!

Our NIPT results came back yesterday as very minimal risk of anything untoward do we are thrilled and I had a great time in London telling some of our closest friends! It’s 15 weeks today & we are starting to relax...the report also showed it seemed we are having a baby boy 😁💕😍 which DH v pleased about!! So now we’ve started to say ‘he’ which is VERY weird!!

Hugs to all!!

Ahhh minster that's such good news about the NIPT results and a little baby boy yay! So so pleased for you I bet it's just a wonderful feeling to finally be open about the pregnancy and being able to talk about it and relax. Have you started thinking about names?

Jane I hope everything is OK with you and your not going too nuts on the 2ww, that is one part of the journey that is just so hard!

I know 6th Feb not long now! I am going in with as much positivity as I can, the drugs aren't making me too crazy at the moment. But I am due to start cyclegest tomorrow which are the ones that make you insane as the symptoms cruelly mirror pregnancy!

I am nervous and now just waiting for Monday when they tell me the time I need to come in for ET. I need this in order to book my pre and post acupuncture sessions.

Hope your all well and keeping warm it's chilly out there!

xxx

Wow @Minster2012 Amazing news. A little boy! So exciting.

@Dbear35 Great that you are nearly ready to go. Hope the cyclogest don't send you too nuts.

Yes I am going loopy. But also I have period cramps. I know everyone tells you it's normal to have cramps but these are cramps that started mild 2 days ago and are building, just like my period. Plus I have my menstrual headache today right on cue for when it would be expected in a normal cycle. So I am really expecting to come on or else to come on as soon as they take away the progesterone support.

They re-tested my progesterone this morning having upped my dose so we shall see what the levels are when they ring. Am tired, stressed and overall pretty miserable. So much for positive mental attitude. Sorry for non cheery post!!!

Hope you are all faring better than me xxx

Hello all,

i feel like i've missed loads!

Minster HUGE CONGRATULATIONS on your baby boy! it must be lovely to know the results of the NIPT and to know the gender! We still say we aren't going to find out the gender, but I think we may get tempted at 20 weeks...!

Jane sorry to hear you are having a crappy day :( Have you called your clinic? They might be able to put your mind at rest.

Dbear The 6 Feb is so close now! Exciting! I can fully understand why you would feel anxious. Hopefully your acupuncture will make you feel nice and chilled :)

Dinks, Star, Liverpool, Aliona - hope you're doing well? Sorry if i've missed others off!

I'm doing well. I have been trying to go to the gym to counter the amount of chocolate I'm eating but it makes me so tired that I can barely speak or focus. I think I might have to accept that my fitness is just going to plummet over the next 6 months - which is a price definitely worth paying! We haven't had a phone call after our nuchal test last week. They vaguely said we'd hear between 2 and 4 days (or 3 weeks!) if I was high risk. We are hoping that now we are 5 working days after we would have heard by now... so we have planned to tell my step children tonight. I think they will be excited now, but a little put out come the summer - but we have 6 months to deal with that!

Love to all x

Hi All.
Minster wow just not long time ago u was waiting for delayed transfer and now you know it’s a boy. Crazy. Congratulations!! So nice to hear that 😊 any idea when u going to start again?

Jane 😊 same goes for u. U was just starting all this not long time ago and now u waiting 😊

Dbear just few more days for u 😱😱 my af lasted like 12 days 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ I am so sick of this injections I can’t tell u

As for me, was on injections since 9 of January and had my first scan today, so everything nice and thin and now building it back 😒. So next scan 12 of feb so another 2 weeks of stabbing myself 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ bit annoyed with my hospital. As the only time I can have scan 10-11. I have just started this job and hate to be asking for days off.. stupid schedule they have🤬 and then if 12 all good, 7-10 days from that point- transfer.

Dinks good to hear from you. I quit my counselling as it was ok at the beginning but now don’t see the point. Didn’t help me 100% but I feel little better I think. Hospital offers counselling but mine not baby related and I will feel awkward to ask.
I don’t know how you dealing with pregnancy and work and all this moving 😱

Rose gym?! Wow. Where u getting the energy from?! Tell me your secret!!

Dinks remind me please when at what stage did your bad nausea start?x

Hi everyone!!

Gosh so much going on... Minster having a boy!!!!!! That’s so exciting. Makes it feel so real 😮 It’s an actual baby boy that will pee in your face when you change his nappy!

Jane I hope you’re feeling better. If it’s any help I had a constant headache, that felt exactly like a PMS headache. It is totally crappy process.

Dbear 6th Feb is our 20 week scan!! Must be a good omen :)

Rose Fingers crossed for the NIPT!! How are the wedding plans coming along? Have no idea how you manage to get to the gym... I literally have enough energy to work (just) and by home time I feel like crawling through the front door and just sleeping where I fall.

Aliona The injections suck, totally. By the time I finished my progesterone I felt dread in my stomach at another injection. It’s not like it was really painful, it’s just.. I dunno. I just hated it too. So I sympathise. On the counselling, my clinic said it didn’t need to be baby related. It was about managing existing mental health conditions while you’re going through a stressful time. Check with yours whether they insist it is baby related.

My nausea started on Halloween. I was almost 7 weeks. I remember it clearly because I was in London and threw up in the world’s tiniest bathroom, really uncomfortable.

As for me, I think nausea is my new normal. But at least it comes in waves, so I get a few hours of feeling ok, then wham, back to nausea and reflux. Tbh I think the reflux is causing the nausea, I think the actual pregnancy nausea has passed. I’m also horribly bloated and have bruises on my stomach where I have burst blood vessels from my stomach swelling so much! Also still absolutely knackered. I’m sleeping 12 hours a night, and it’s still not enough!

Definitely no unicorn 🦄🦄🦄 glow here, I think it’s a myth!! Right now I’m in tears because DH is cooking dinner and he’s so lovely. Good grief.

I’m going to go and try to alleviate my guilt by peeling some carrots. Hope everyone has a lovely evening

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hello!

@dinksandbinks are you taking anything for the reflux. I'm on omeprazole and think it is safe for pregnancy. Worth checking if you haven't already.

@Aliona19 so you may be all done by 22nd Feb?! Exciting - that is so soon. I'm sure you are looking forward to no more injections.

I'm doing ok. The headache freaked me out because it was on the day I would get a menstrual migraine if I wasn't pregnant on a normal cycle. Actually it lasted 2.5 days which is unusual. We will see if it meant anything or not.

I was feeling negative, now trying to be positive. Certainly am trying to enjoy this time before the test on Monday - if it is negative, I'm in no hurry to find out! Hoping for good things but looking forward to no more injections and a super hot bath if it's not.

Love to you all
Xxx

Morning everyone, hope your weekends are good!

jane did you get your numbers back from the clinic? How’s it looking? How are you feeling? And DH?

rose 20 weeks on Tuesday! But no 🦄🦄rubbish!! I hope the nausea lifts, my friend only gets it in waves now though worryingly had a near fainting episode whilst at work and her blood pressure dropped (the good thing about being able to test herself!) so she had to lie down and relax a bit. Have you bought anything yet? Thought about names?! Now ppl know for us and especially now we have told ppl it’s a boy the first question is “what are you going to call it?...what about “such and such” and don’t call it a stupid name like (insert not so much a stupid name)” so I might advise people NOT to find out as I have to keep repeating to people
“No we haven’t decided on a name, but whatever we call it you WILL SMILE & CALL IT BY ITS NAME won’t you!!!” 😁😁😂

aliona you could always tell them? For the time off it might make things easier? That way it means they are less likely to ask questions? But hey it’s moving on which is awesome!!

dbear how you feeling about Tuesday? Hopefully relaxed, honestly it’s nothing putting back in, so easy!! Exciting!!!

I’ve got my first appointment to discuss my next round of egg retrieval/fertilisation on Tuesday but we need to wait for my cancer treatment to be out of my system for 4 months so that will be march I think so I think we will be coming up with a schedule & discussing my AMH.

In our news my friend is growing baby nicely, our friends & family all basically know now which is great & making it real & DH & I do have VERY different taste in names!! Urgh I thought the name game would be fun!!

Hi @Minster2012 names are tricky. It's easy to disagree because who you have known by those names growing up affects how you see them. Feel free to send suggestions our way! Sounds fun.

Do you mean my progesterone results? They recovered when he upped my dose. We have stuck to that.

I feel ok. Physically I feel nothing much now. My energy levels and mood have come back up. Not much cramping at the moment. Boobs swollen from progesterone but not especially sore. Certainly have no "pregnancy symtpoms". Feel slightly more pre-AF than early pregnancy (not that I've ever been preg apart from a possible chemical once)

No way to tell but I did get that migraine which usually means not pregnant. DP is calm and philosophical as always. Insists he is happy for me to whatsapp him the results when he's at work!?!

Have my beta Hcg tomorrow morning. I will get tested at 7:30 then they will call me as soon as they have the result. Somewhere from 10am I imagine.

@Aliona19 Hope you're ok. Annoying about the scan timing. Could you maybe tell work that you have a few medical appts at the moment but that you're not seriously ill or anything?! It would be easier to tell them something than nothing I think

Xxx

@Janefx40 - I had an awful 2 day migraine when my ds was implanting. I think that's a good sign for you!

I am waiting for af (due today, but had a Hysteroscopy 2 weeks ago which I wonder could be the cause of the delay?). I am on day 11 of Burserelin, and the headaches and dizziness are not good. Keeping positive though, especially with all of the lovely stories of hope which I see on here each day.

Having bloods on 7th, and will hopefully know more then about a transfer date.

Baby dust to all x

Dinks I know,injections not particularly painful but I had enough of it.. each time I pierce my skin with needle I feel so sorry for myself. Just want it to be over with this burselin 💩😔

Minster I requested one day from my holiday for time of scan. And warned them there ll be a procedure week after so will need day off again. Also told them it’s nothing serious just have to be done. I can’t be 100% honest and tell them the reason as I am on probabation for 3 month. I know they happy with how I work but I am sure they will tell me to F off the second they found out. So even if transfer successfull I have hard job to keep it quiet for as long as possible 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Different taste in names lol I feel for u. I have same problem here and I know it will be War 😅

Jane not only actual ivf stressful I have to stress out coz of job 🤦🏻‍♀️
Have you not taken test yet?!
I agree about names 😅 I know someone called Darren and I love him as a person but my oh says if I call my son Darren he will take his bags and leave 😂😂 in fact Star told me she would have done same lol

I just getting over my bad cold that I had whole week.. so I think I should go and bake some brownies to make it all ok 😂😂

morning Everyone!

Gosh I miss one day and im playing catch up again!

Jane I am thinking of you today and your test I have everything crossed toes, fingers legs that you get your BFP xx

minster name picking is tough! My DH and I talk about it quite often and never agree ,...his last suggestion was Heratio!! I hope he was joking! LOL
Good luck to you for your meeting tomorrow on Egg R and F, March isn't that far away.

Aliona totally get why you wouldn't tell work exactly why you needed some time off, but they cannot legally dismiss you if you are pregnant don't take any rubbish from them. The injections suck I really don't miss them at all, your nearly there not long now and then you can stop them hang in there sweetie. Hey send me some brownies please !!

angel Hi welcome sorry I didn't say hi earlier, good luck with the bloods on the 7th xx

dinks good luck on your 20wk scan tomorrow eakkk I really hope your right that it's a good omen!

rosehow did the reveal go to the step children? can't believe that you have the energy to go to the gym!

star Where are you? are you still in Italy having an amazing time!!?

So it's Transfer day tomorrow and I am scared, not of the transfer as I've been through that on my fresh cycle so I know what to expect. As minster says it's such a quick procedure over and done with just like that.

Firstly I'm scared that our embies make not make the thaw and we will have none to transfer. And then I guess I'm just nervous that this cycle will be like the first.

I'm on the prognova which I felt great on! But now I'm on the bottom bullets as well I'm bloated and irrational. I don't have sore boobs or any other symptoms though...and wonder is this because I need more progesterone?

I have today booked as holiday so just trying to chill out. Currently watching Friends from the beginning and keeping my feet warm, drinking POM juice and I plan on having a nice hot bath in a bit. Seeing as your not allowed them after transfer.

Love to all xxx

Hi Guys. Just to let you know we have got a negative test. There are traces of HCG so they will continue to monitor me primarily in case of an ectopic. Still it's an N rather than a BFN so that is progress for me!

I’m ok just tired. Obviously not what I wanted but I wasn’t expecting a positive result.

Hope you are all ok

Xxx

Jane really sorry to hear that. Does the fact that there are a traces of HCG mean that there is some chance that you're pregnant, and your embryo is just being a bit slow at getting hormones released?

xx

Dbear Good luck with the transfer! I will keep everything crossed for you :)

Friends sounds lovely. Hope you can continue having a nice relaxed day after the transfer xx

And the step children were delighted - thankfully! :) All of them were really excited about having a new baby brother or sister, and we told them about the wedding too which was fun. Today I told work that i'm pregnant - the final people to tell. All feels a bit more real now! xx

Jane I am sorry to read your post , keep strong grab some sleep and look after yourself.

Your positive will come
xxx

@Jane I am really sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself xx

Hello everyone,
I hope you don't mind if I join you.
I just began to take pills to bring on my AF and begin preparing for a medicated cycle.

I'm sorry to hear Jane that you have received N result.

Hello Everybody!

OMG so much has happened!

So we are having a boy @Minster hey? How wonderful!!! Between the wedding and all these great news I feel even more positive ladies!

@Dbear yes I am back in the office now, and quite busy at that, but all good . Sweetie it is normal to feel fearful because of your last experience, BUT you just need to stay with the truth/reality and the truth is you are such a happy soul in love with a wonderful happy man and very happy to have gone through all this and ready to get your embie on board! The rest, yes yes we know, but why shouldn’t it work hey? You have worked so hard for this, believe in it, believe in you. Your last experience doesn’t have to become your nemesis, but an experience, sad and difficult experience, but you want a different experience. Yu want a pleasant one. A happy one. I want to celebrate the end of a few weeks of injecting yourself, a Veganuary full of amazing nutrient, Acupuncture and so much love, patience and hope. The reality is what will be will be, but looking at the glass helpful will make it a much better journey . Try to not overthink things, just rejoice at tomorrow being a new lease in your life. Your embie is going home tomorrow! The rest, well, the rest is the rest and we don’t dwell on them, on the if this or that. You don’t need to right now so why should you?

@Janefx40 I am very much thinking of you XXX

Lots of love to all ladies,
XXX

Dbear - best of luck for transfer. Stay positive, and enjoy the Pom juice.

Also, I was told by someone that her IVF nurse had said that Slim Fast shakes can help with implantation. Something about all of the nutrients being all together in one drink. Just thought I would mention it.

Take care, all xx

@Janefx40 I am sorry you did not get the result you wanted. Don't be hard on yourself sweetie and do something you love doing. We are here for you . XXX

Thanks guys - I'm ok. I was expecting this result. Obviously I wish things were different but I'm alright. It was only my first try.

@RoseWrites not much chance of levels recovering as hcg was only 5 which many clinics class as a straight negative. She said it can happen but is extremely unlikely. Chemical or ectopic are most likely scenarios.

Glad the step kids were pleased - how lovely to be able to give good news.

Stay positive everyone. Don't be brought down by me. The rest of you can get BFPs all the way!!!

Xxx