On the heavier side mummas doing ivf

[Miraclemuma03]

I don't usually gain a lot of weight with pregnancy at all but with my last pregnancy I had to be on a few varying types of medications for mental health and migraines and unfortunately this increased my weight dramatically through the pregnancy. I happened to gain 30kg by the time I had bubs and turned 6mths old when I finally could come off the medications. I managed to get off 8kg since which has been extremely slow process and once I had bubs I went into perimenopause so it's been very hard to get off the weight even whilst doing weight watchers. Anyway my point I'm getting too is, I'm starting a new ivf cycle but I'v never gone into any sort of ivf or pregnancy being over weight (85kg) my ivf specialist said when I was at 90kg if I could get 5kg off then he will be happy with that so I struggled but got it off. Anyway who else is going through ivf on the heavier side and did this have any affect on whether the ivf drugs worked or egg collection? My ivf specialist said it shouldn't have any effect but would like some opinions on this if anyone is willing to share their experience and has anyone had success? Sorry this was longer then planned lol.

I don't know how tall you are (and so what your BMI is) but I think the amount of fat around organs would need to be quite significant to impact ovary accessibility. If you've been given the greenlight to proceed then I assume your doctor can see from ultrasounds that the collection path will be ok and that anaesthetic has been determined to be safe.

Heavier women may require more FSH and an elevated BMI can impact the hormones and metabolic processes involved with egg development. However everyone has a different set of factors to contend with. The overriding IVF success factor is age. An overweight younger person (perhaps bar morbid obesity) will on average be more fertile than a slimmer older person.

Your doctor would have said if your chances would be seriously impacted. Good luck!

good luck on your journey

@sirensong thank you. I think that's thr response i needed. It really plays on my mind and guess needed to hear from someone else.

I think i agree that it won't make a difference to the drugs BUT being significantly overweight does have a big impact on foetal health and pregnancy health. Increased risk of miscarriage, complications etc etc so it's definitely worth trying to lose whatever weight you can

I ended up emailing my clinic with my concerns and got some really good information off them, those factors come into place with more morbid obesity and extremely heavy weighted woman and a little excess weight if your healthy isn't going to have much impact. I'm very active, I'm strong, I'm healthy, i exercise regularly and my clinic put all that into perspective for me so that made me feel a little better, they also sent me some information to read and really put my mind at ease. Thanks for your response.