@BeHereNowx32 @BambiOnIce80. I last went on Professor Robert Winston's genesis research website over 3 years ago, when doing my last cycle. Since then it seems to have escalated to a vast volume of information, that seems hard to trudge through.
The main points I took away and implemented, was using a high quality multivitamin, Vitabiotics has been researched with ivf and it does appear to offer some benefit in helping with a positive outcome.
Having regular sex leading upto embryo transfer, (obviously using barrier method contraception). The thinking behind this is that your body does have a sort of memory, and if you are not having sex, and then for an embryo just to appear out of nowhere may cause some confusion to the body, your body maybe more willing to accept an embryo if you have gone through the natural process of trying to create one.
Also this maybe a bit controversial but Prof Robert Winston also did a very specific study in the very early days of ivf using red wine. The conclusion he came to is that having a small glass of very high quality red wine such as a Burgundy a couple of hours before embryo transfer improved chances of implantation by around 4%, which does not sound a lot, but when dealing with the overall rate of success of ivf it is a significant number. It does relax the womb to being more receptive in accepting an embryo and there are some medicinal benefits in a high quality red, also it helps you to feel more relaxed at the time of transfer. I must admit, it felt so wrong opening a bottle of wine and 9am on the morning of transfer, and it goes against everything that you are told to do, but if you are leading quite a healthy lifestyle I believe the wine before transfer will give full medicinal effect.
As I say coincidents do happen, but I did all of these things on my successful cycle which I had never done in my previous two fet or my fresh cycle.
It is worth noting that Professor Robert Winston does stress that if an embryo is bound to failure due to chromosomal problems then nothing will help. He also mentions that it is impossible to know if an embryo is going to implant by looking at the grade, and that a high grade embryo means absolutely nothing, because although it looks good under a microscope, there is no way of telling if that grade A embryo has any chromosome problems to prevent a successful pregnancy from occurring.
He also talks a lot about how ivf is used too much because of unexplained infertility (which is me) and that further tests should be done to establish the root cause of infertility, rather than going straight to ivf because that in itself could be why ivf is not successful for someone in that situation and therefore the embryo is bound to fail, so his advice is very generalised and he does make it very clear not to expect miracles if the main cause of infertility is not dealt with.