FET in November

[IVFgothope]

We're planning on having our first FET in November. Anyone else as well?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on natural vs medicated. My clinic prefers medicated but I'd rather take the least amount of hormones. Succes rates seem to be similar.

For context, after the stimulation phase 22 eggs were collected of which 16 were mature and I did a share program in which they were equally divided. So I received 8 mature eggs and 4 fertilised of which we got 3 embryos. As I was at a risk of developing overstimulation, the embryos were frozen. That's been a huge relief and I hope I can help someone else as well.

As I'm sure many of you have experienced, it's been challenging to get through the first stage. I've had quite a lot of physical and mental side effects. Does anyone else still feel bad a week after egg collection?

Hi everyone, lovely to hear your positive updates 😊 and thanks @IVFgothope for starting the thread up again.

An update from me- our November FET ended in an early miscarriage, but we tried again in February and I'm now 35 weeks pregnant with our little girl💖. Still so anxious about everything going ok if I'm honest, but trying to be excited and enjoy it.

Congratulations @Elkly88! That's so exciting, you're almost there :) I remember how anxious I was towards the end and tried to do lots of things I enjoyed to get the oxytocin flowing. Hope all goes well for you and your baby girl x

@IVFgothope - yes I had a tough pregnancy too, I feel like I had every symptom going. Plus as it was a high risk pregnancy, I had to have weekly scans which helped ease my mind a bit but the constant worry never left until I passed 30 weeks. I did have a planned c-section, as there was a higher chance that you could try natural and end up with a section anyway, so I opted to get them out quickly and safely!