TWW Fresh Embryo Transfer Symptoms

[LimeTurtle]

Hi everyone !

I am currently 5 days past a 5 day fresh embryo transfer. I've had slight cramping and lower back pain since day 1 as well as very vivid dreams.
Could these be symptoms that the embryo has implanted ? Or just a side effect of my progesterone pessaries.

We have male infertility factor and my AMH levels and lining were good when I had the transfer. My period is due a week today so I'm now worrying it's just my period coming early before my official test day which would be odd as I'm very regular!
:(

Just feeling a little lonely in this two week wait as I've never wanted something so much !
Any success stories with similar symptoms would be great ?

Thank you in advance 😊

@LimeTurtle omg the more you tell me the more angry I'm getting. I promise you he's so wrong, even without the fact that my baby was breech I said I wanted a section because my baby is measuring big and my consultant was so good and said he agrees and would probs recommend it tbf... glad your hubby is going with, get some help from the midwife and don't accept what this consultant said, ask how you go about having an alternative consultant and quote the NHS website, you got this!!!

I know the more I think about it the more I wind myself up 🤣 the first consultant I had was so lovely, she also said to me most people who have IVF go for a section for peace of mind so she totally understood why I wanted one. Plus at that stage my placenta was really low, luckily it's moved now ! But it was supposed to be her today but she was running late so they gave me him instead 🤣 so I'm gutted it really shows how getting a different consultant can mess up the way you think !

@LimeTurtleI would be absolutely furious and demanding to get this resolved.

that’s really not good enough at all, whilst i understand all babies are a blessing. We have gone through hell and back to get ours.
That’s totally unnecessary what you have been told,

One consultant has told me 38-39 weeks another now is 39-40 weeks. I’m 37+ 4 today and hating not knowing when my date is. I have already emailed the antenatal clinic and a doctor is meant to be calling me. I want my boy here before 39 weeks.

it’s only a new study that IVF babies are classed as normal. I’m years in with 4 rounds behind me.

@LimeTurtle I’m so sorry this has happened to you 💓 I think the specialists are so used to doing their jobs that it becomes mundane to them and they forget who they’re talking to and the situation they’re talking about. For them it’s ‘just another baby’ for us it’s our whole world and has been the product of months/years of struggle to achieve this miracle. Plus add on being uncomfortable, anxious, and hormonal… I don’t think I would have been as gracious as you!
My Drs would have let me go to 41+5 and then induce, they treated the pregnancy as ‘normal’.
With the protein in your urine and higher BP, you must stay calm. For you and your baby, explain your worry to the midwife today but for your sake try not to stress about it. Things always work out in the end, even when they don’t go to plan. We have to try to be open to alternatives and have faith that it’ll be okay 💕
Let us know how you get on Today!
@cbear1989 Thank you! Yes we are home now! Did 48 hrs in the hospital and glad to be in our own bed. Baby is doing well, breastfeeding is a little challenging, she gets a lot of trapped wind, and add on lack of sleep… I’m tired. But so happy! Body wise I feel okay, I’ve got a few stitches from two tears on either side inside where she decided to turn last minute but they don’t really hurt much, but the 3 little ones on the outside from the episiotomy 😳 wow. I’m John Wayne-ing it almost everywhere! We go to the Pediatrician and midwife today so I’ll give a little update later.
Hows motherhood treating you? 💓
@Natasha90 Any news on your date? 🤞🏻

@LimeTurtleplease let us know how you get on today.

@Kaybee1989i have a telephone call at 10.30am today this is to discuss dates. They really trying to push me to 40 weeks and I just don’t feel comfortable at all with it. I have said this from the very beginning.

glad you are doing well I bet it’s such a blessing. I was reading back through some our September posts when we had was counting down until test day now we have 2 miracles here and 2 on the way.

such a lucky thread 💕💙

Hi ladies ! Feeling so much better after my midwife appointment, she was not happy at all. She said she's already ringing the section team this afternoon at the hospital as they've done the same thing to one of her other ladies so she's giving me a call tomorrow with an update. If not she's booked me another appointment next Wednesday and said I can have a stretch and sweep if I want one if I didn't want to go over 40 weeks waiting for a section but that it's totally my choice if I don't want one. But she said she'll do everything she can to sort it. No protein & normal blood pressure this morning too 😌

good luck with your appointment this morning too !!

@LimeTurtle That’s great news! Fingers crossed for you tomorrow 💖

Hey.

@LimeTurtlegreat news for you, I hope it gets sorted.

so from my call this morning the doctors has put me forward for my section from 38+3 days. After a 20
minute debate as to way I would feel
more comfortable…….

38+ 3 works out to be this Sunday so Im not convinced.

I also harvested a full syringe of Colostrum today.

how are you beautiful babies coming along @Kaybee1989@cbear1989

This is great news, I'll have my fingers crossed for you ! I'm glad they've tried to sort it and not make you wait for 40 weeks. I also have exciting news, the hospital rang me last night and have booked me in for May 29th for my section 😍 so I'll be 39 + 5 but I'm so happy they've managed to fit me in. It all feels so real now, so by next weekend we should all have our little miracles here 🩷

Sorry I've been quiet, these little babies take up all of your time 🤣👶

@Kaybee1989 @Natasha90 baby is doing good thank you! he actually had the health visitor out again and was back upto birth weight last week, a week later and he's put on an entire pound, boy loves his milk!! Struggling a little with wind too as he gets a bit uncomfortable, which I think is down to the formula as I'm expressing and giving him first infant milk. But he's doing really well bless him. @Kaybee1989 I'm knackered aswell but it's all so worthit. How are you getting on? Feeding all going okay? How are you managing the nights?

@LimeTurtle great news that your midwife has sorted you out and you've got your date! not long to go!!❤️😍

@Natasha90 Thats good that they’ve agreed to do the C-section! Now it’s just a waiting game 💓
@LimeTurtle Brilliant news! That date sounds great 😊 My baby was born at 38+4 and she’s tiny, it would’ve been easier if she was in there a little longer!
@cbear1989 Feeding is hard, I’m exclusively breast feeding and the latching is really difficult to get perfectly right. The pediatrician said that she’s so small (2.54kg now) and my boobs are mahoosive thanks to the milk that she can’t open her mouth wide enough to get a good grip so then she causes me pain and damages the nipple. Practice makes perfect I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️ Last night was the first night she slept really well and wasn’t fussy. So I feel like a rockstar! A very tired and sore rockstar that can’t sit down on a hard chair, but a rockstar nonetheless! 😂
We’re nearly all there!! Where did the time go? 💕💕

@Kaybee1989 bless you, I really struggled with breast feeding from the boob, little man struggled to latch and then just became a bit lazy and we then realised that he did it for comfort rather than getting any milk. He was super lethargic when we got him home and we realised that he'd probably been under fed bless him because I thought he'd been doing okay getting milk from the boob. After that we made the decision to combination feed, ive been expressing so I know how much breast milk he's taking alongside formula and it's been so much easier, I felt ebf was so much pressure for me personally! Plus now hes a little chunk and putting loads of weight on haha. Not saying that's what you should do but I know how much of an emotional whirlwind these first few weeks are, so just make sure you're looking after you too and do what you need to if it makes life easier for both you and baby! Sounds like you're smashing it though! And fingers crossed you'll have more luck on the boob than me 😘

@LimeTurtleahhhh so happy for you to finally have your date….. im literally going to be told
the day before. We may even be same day 😳.

@Kaybee1989@cbear1989sounds like your babies are doing wonderful.

PS still can’t believe we are here 💙💕

@LimeTurtlehow you feeling, I’ve just had confirmation mine is booked for 29th May as well 😳 xx

@Natasha90ahhh no way, that's so cool 😅 weird if we are at the same hospital too 🤣 I've just come out of my pre op appointment to get medication and a run through. So feeling a little more relaxed about the order of things, feeling a lot of nerves as the day edges closer though 🤣 just the usual I hope she's okay, happy & healthy and hope the procedure goes well with no complications. I'm also SO uncomfortable so really looking forward to her being here now I feel like I've been overthinking symptoms the last 3 days more than my entire pregnancy ahha ! I'm in at 7:15am so should be on the morning list ! Do you have any of those sorts of details yet ? How are you feeling now you have your date ? 🩷

Good luck tomorrow @LimeTurtle @Natasha90 !!!! Will be thinking of you both, hope all goes well and you have your beautiful babies in your arms very soon 🥰😍👶

@LimeTurtle @Natasha90 Wow!! Today’s the day! 🤩 Wishing you all the luck in the world and try to enjoy the moment and take it all in because in no time your babies will be here and you’re going to be mummys! 💕
Im sure everything will go just fine… this is the lucky thread after all 🍀🥰 Keep us updated when you can.

Beautiful baby girl arrived safely at 1:42pm, weighing 9lbs 2oz. She is perfect I can't stop staring at her 💗

Hope you're doing okay too ! @Natasha90❤️

@LimeTurtle ahh well done and congratulations!!!! 😍👶

@LimeTurtle congratulations!!!! 🎉💕

My beautiful boy was born 3.30pm today, 7.1lb we are so in love .

ladies we did it 😭 a feeling like no other xx

@Natasha90 Congratulations!!! 🎉🎈💕
@LimeTurtle @cbear1989 Yes! We finally did it! After all the hurdles we’ve been through to get here… our moment has come to enjoy this new journey of motherhood 💖 Well done to us for enduring the hard times of treatment, and the emotional & physical roller coaster of pregnancy, and now the incredible experience of birth and becoming a mum! Big pat on the back for us… congrats! 🎈

@Natasha90 massive congratulations!!

Enjoy your beautiful babies girlie's, our lucky forum has done it!! Soak up all the cuddles, I have my little man snuggled into my shoulder currently after a night feed, it's the best feeling in the world especially when for a while during the infertility journey you weren't sure that you'd get there.

Just remember to be kind to yourselves it's a lot these first few weeks! My messages are always open if anyone needs anything ❤️

Good morning lovely ladies ! Part of the 3am club 🤣

Little one is doing really well, loving her milk and very alert when she's awake. She was an angel the first 2 nights but the last two she's not slept a wink until 5am and just screams if you let her go 🤣🤣 so we are doing it in shifts I picked the 3-6am haha !

any ideas welcome ?? Not sure if she's just getting confused between night & day as she's such a god girl in the day.

hope you're all keeping well💗

@LimeTurtle 🤣🤣 welcome to the club!!

Sounds like she's doing amazing, and you too!!

Tbh I don't think they're actually able to differentiate between night and day at this stage when theyre so young, but it defo can still help in winding down for the night and keeping everything as quiet as poss and without any lights blaring to get them used to it, which im sure you're probs doing already. Our baby monitor has a nightlight and sound options for white noise etc although we use the waves setting as it's less annoying 😅😅

What are you using for sleeping? I know our little one has never liked being swaddled like most newborns, he's far too wriggly and likes to be a bit freer🤣🤣 so we use a sleeping bag which he loves as his arms are out and he can still kick his legs, we like it too cos we know he's safe and cosy without being restricted. He's pretty good at going down for daytime naps but we use his moses basket downstairs for daytime naps and always have a bit of background noise compared to night sleeps where the room is dark, quiet and we use the sleeping bag, plus he sleeps for the night in his proper cot in his nursery, whether that helps or not who knows!

also if she's anything like ours, he goes down on his own fine most of the time but loves to nap on you. I usually keep him upright for 20-30 mins after a feed and by then he's usually fell asleep on my chest which helps me to pop him down and just soothe him to sleep in his cot (head stroking and feeling our face right next to his always helps).

Last thing I'd say is generally if he's fussy to go down or doesn't wanna settle there's usually something bothering him, so just try eliminating everything. Ours is struggling with wind a little and has spit up a few times today so hes just stirred in the past hour so I got him up and the minute I lifted him he let out a huge burp so he obvs had some wind bless him. l reckon he's got a bit of reflux so he's a lot easier to settle when he's not so windy!

Hope that helps a little, good luck, you got this!!!