IVF march 2026

[sunflower1906]

Is anyone planning a fresh cycle in March? It would be lovely to have some cycle buddies to share all the highs and lows of this whole process as we have been pretty private and not told any friends or family. I have been down regulating most of February and finally got the green light to start stims on the 28th with egg retrieval provisionally booked for Friday 13th March. Thankfully I’m not superstitious 😂😂 then planning for a fresh transfer if all goes to plan and we have an embryo 🤞🏼🤞🏼

@Greentiles67 so sorry to hear you got a negative. Hopefully the time before you go again you can use to take it easy and recover. Do you have a follow up planned with your clinic?

I did a test this morning (8dp5dt) and got the faintest possible line, so im counting myself out. By now id expect to see something more clear. OTD is Sunday so I will still keep taking the cyclogest till then but atleast I feel like I can start thinking about what we do next rather than just waiting.

@CrumbleCake98 I really wouldn’t count yourself out yet! 8dp5dt is still early. I think you really need to test again on Sunday and see as I would say it could go either way yet🤞🤞🤞

@wishinghard2 Just keep taking 1 day at a time 💜🩷🧡💙💛🩵💚

@Miraclemuma03 Hope the applicators help. I hate all the side effects mimicking possible signs.

I’ve decided chatGPT makes the wait worse 😂 it’s too optimistic I keep asking it to give me realistic expectations

My chatgpt is perky hahaha. Full of optimism and best case scenarios. It tells me the gloom and doom in a positive light haha how can I be full of anxiety when chatgpt makes you wonder maybe this is going to work hahah I know very well I only have something like a 40% chance of a successful outcome and this wont work but chatgpt cheers me up enough to think i might be just one of the lucky ones hahah bloody thing.

@Miraclemuma03 Glad its not just me finding it a bit overly optimistic. I am yoyo-ing like crazy between optimisim and pessimisim. Its surprised me a bit how much I've got invested in this actually working, as before we started I thought I was quite securely in a place of it being ok either way. Which it is really. I think I've just realised I'll be more gutted than I thought I would be if it doesn't stick.

I bought pregnancy test. What am I thinking. Planning to take a test at 6dp5dt which is on Easter sunday. Talk me off the ledge. Though everyone must be ttc this month because there was next to know pregnancy tests packs on the shelf at big w. There was 2 packs left of the clear blue with the digital in them think it was a 2 pack and it was $30, thats a joke right? And there were 4 packs of the x3 packs of first response which il always go for. They were $20. Tell me why peeing on a stick costs so much? Anyway wish me luck. My husband thinks im mad and wants no part of the testing bahahaha

I did actually tell him he's more then welcome to hold the stick while I pee on it. For a minute he was in agreeance hahah sicko.

Step away from the tests @Miraclemuma03 ! No good will come of testing right now because....

1. If you test and its positive, you're going to want to test on day 7 and day 8 and in the morning and in the evening and obsessivley check line progression in case this is a chemical. No good will come of it. It will drive you mad trying to monitor something you cannot control. Its not going to give you joy seeing 2 lines. Its going to increase your anxiety.

2. If you test and its negative, you will feel crap that its negative and STILL need to take all the drugs. Its easier to take the drugs if you're hopeful. And you will increase your anxeity that it might not have worked (when it actually still COULD work) and make you want to test again (or make you feel rubbish until OTD). No good will come of it.

Ergo -> NO GOOD EVER COMES BY TESTING EARLY 😂

Walk away. Eat some chocolate. You don't need the stress of testing early 💛

And absolutely not 😂

You raise excellent points. I will reconsider. I needed that.

@Miraclemuma03 Its so tempting, but I still shout that to myself when im tempted as experience has shown me that testing early isn’t useful xxxx

Could I jump in this chat please ladies? Had a blastocyst DE transfer on Monday . I checked out fertility friends but it’s empty. Would love to join in for the support and to offer any support if I can xx

@Umbrellaladi welcome to join but you might find the April thread more useful as I think I’m right that there are 2 of us testing on Sunday and then 1 last person testing next week I think and then we’re all done :)

@2mumlife I can’t believe that will be everyone tested. The month feels like it’s lasted forever! Wishing everyone testing this weekend the most luck in the world. I’m routing for you!!!!

Im so disappointed in myself. I actually tested this morning and it was negative. I wasn't going too but with my last baby I got a positive late night on day 4 after transfer so thought if it had worked then surely id see something even if faint but nope it is stark negative . I actually went into my transfer after hearing the quality of my embryos knowing that this working was going to be slim to none. I know its still early and everyone is going to say I tested too early and I have been that small percentage of getting a later implantation and having a successful pregnancy so I know it can happen but I dont think thats the case this time. Il probably just wait for beta to be done but Id say I should start at bleed in 4 days so il wait for that now. Im even wondering if its even worth going for another round of ivf if I can only barely make 1 embryo to transfer.

@Miraclemuma03 You know already I’m going to say it might just be too early. There is a reason you thought to yourself to test on day 6 when things would be more likely to show. Don’t berate yourself though, and try not to get sucked down the spiral of misery quite yet. Either wait for beta or until day 6. You don’t need to cross the bridge of “what next” for a few more days - try to enjoy your Easter xxxx

@CrumbleCake98 How you feeling about OTD tomorrow?

Chat GPT is very hopeful for me but I’m not really feeling that. You’d think by now I’d have more of a gut instinct if it had worked or not but half of me is clinging to some symptoms suggesting maybe it did and the other half of me feels like it’s going to be a no. On my positive tests I’ve always had a bit of a feeling like I don’t want to test, and this time I feel a bit like I just want to get it over with which I feel like is a bad sign

Im 5dp5dt today. The only thing keeping me a little hopeful is chat gpt told me my compacted morula might only be implanting yesterday and today so would not be secreting any hcg yet. It said my embryo needed time to become a day 5 blastocyct and hatch before trying to implant which can take a little extra longer then a blastocyst already doing those things on transfer day. I probably wont test again now and wait for beta. Il hope for the best but really im prepared for the worst.
How mych longer for your official test day? My beta is on the 9th.

I’m the same. I looked up my chat gpt and it said this-

• Implantation can happen anywhere from day 1–5 after transfer
• hCG (the hormone tests detect) usually only becomes measurable 1–3 days after implantation
• Urine tests can lag behind blood tests

@Miraclemuma03 OTD is 13dpt for my clinic but that’s new - in all my previous cycles it was 10dpt so that’s when we’ve decided to test, which is tomorrow morning.

I’ve had a couple of symptoms but no implantation bleeding this time around. But feeling really tired today

Good luck! Do you think any of the tests (brands) are better than others?

@Umbrellaladi If you’re testing early then FRER (First Response Early Result) definitely. It even picked up a very faint line with my blood hcg was like 5 during my
chemical pregnancy. In general if you are early testing avoid test with blue eyes (clear blue in particular is notorious for indent lines)

@Miraclemuma03 My clinic doesn’t do blood tests anymore annoying 🙁

I only use frer. I just wouldnt be able to cope with the false lines left behind on other tests. Iv used clearblue once before but the results were confusing.

Our clinic use to test at 13 to 14dpt but now its 10dpt and I dont know how i feel about that. What symptoms do you have? How come the clinic stopped doing betas?

BFN here. Feel quite flat as I’ve always bled before OTD when it’s been a negative (even though I guess yes technically it’s not my OTD yet).

I had some cramps and tinged at the right time, my whole uterus has been feeling really heavy for the last few days like it does later in pregnancy, gone off coffee a bit and felt weirdly tearful yesterday. They increased the level of progesterone to drop the pre transfer lubion so I wonder if it’s just all down to being on more progesterone this time.

Not sure I have it in me to keep taking the meds for another 3 days

How many days past transfer are you? Im sorry you got a negative. I also feel the same about continuing on with the meds.