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 🤞🏼🤞🏼

10dp5dt so nearly entirely certain - very rare for anything after this date. Meds seems pointless but oh well

Sorry to read this @2mumlife. I was pretty hopeful for you for this FET. I agree it is unlikely so maybe test the day before OTD and then stop?

I’m so sorry to hear this @2mumlife, it’s so disappointing and upsetting. Please be kind to yourself.

Tomorrow is my test date (13dp5dt) but I’m feeling very pessimistic at the minute. I‘m also tired of waiting and the anxiety. Very nearly tested this morning but I’ve never tested early so didn’t want to take a chance.

Today would be a reliable result. Probably being a bad influence on you.

I know it would but I think im just superstitious as my last two cycles I tested at 13dp5dt per the clinics advice and both were positive. Albeit my last one ended in a second trimester loss.

That is understandable. I liked to keep everything the same routine for my last two FETs I had. Good luck.

Does anyone have experience with different tests? I’m using v cheap ones (plain test strips) from Amazon…..are the expensive ones better for early testing?

I’m really sorry…..I still hope for a double line for you though. I don’t think mine showed up last time until v late but can’t remember the day.

it may be too soon to think about this but can you try again? Xx

Yes. I would use first response. Boots have a nice test as well that is pretty reliable.

@2mumlife im sorry to hear yours was negative!

Was a negative for me too. I’m 10dp5dt which is my OTD. I just have to email my clinic with the result and they said they will post me a letter with my follow up appointment - it’s NHS so I’m not expecting this to come through anytime soon! Didn’t get any embryos to freeze either unfortunately so feels like I’m back to square one. We only get 1 cycle on the NHS where we live (which I know I’m lucky to even qualify for) - so need to crunch some numbers and see if we can even make it work to try again.

thank you! 🙏🏻

@CrumbleCake98 I’m sorry it was a negative for you, I was feeling really hopeful when you saw something faint at day 8. Sorry you’re in the limbo of figuring out next moves.

@Umbrellaladi It would be very unusual for anything to turn up now when I used a low sensitive test and it was stark white to be honest. Going through the motions with the meds for a last few days just to go through the motions really, not expecting anything. We’re lucky that we already have 2 children from previous FETs, this was our last embryo and we decided our last round really. Very grateful for the children we have but sad as a part of me always thought we might have the chance to do it all again 1 last time.

@SparklyGreenTiger I get the superstition. I always had the superstition about OTD as well as my last 2 FETs where I didn’t test early worked, but OTD for them was 10dp5dt so decided to do that again even though this time was 13dp5dt. A tiny bit of me stupidly thinks “maybe I should have waited” 🤦‍♀️ which I guess is why I’m still bothering to take the meds for a few more days. Keeping everything crossed for you 🤞🤞🤞

@2mumlife
maybe you’ll be able to try privately somehow in the future? Everything crossed for you. It’s positive you have 2 babies and your body knows how to do this. I was also reading that some bodies just process implantation and show Hcg slower than others…xx

Im sorry to those who got negatives. This is such a hard process to go through no matter if you already have kids or not. When a woman wants a child, that is all her mind is set out to achieve whether she has previous children or not, and when it doesnt work its hard to understand why and it feels unfair. I also just wanted to experience one last time a pregnancy and birth and raising another baby and adding to my tribe but its just not working for me either and one part of me thinks I should be grateful for what I have and of course I really am and I Cherish them all the time, they are my entire world but on the other hand I wanted one more, to do it one last time and now im at the point of this process after doing 3 rounds, whether or not it worth continuing if im getting the same results. I wish every here best of luck in their journey and we all deserve a positive outcome and I do hope that will be the case for us all. If not for this cycle but for the next one. I threw my tests away, I havnt tested since day 5 when I got a negative. Im not feeling hopeful but iv read on other sites that people with normal embryos can get a negative right up to day 8 and still have a successful pregnancy so iv stayed in my meds and im going to be hopeful.

BFN here this morning. I feel totally broken. It’s just all so unfair. At the moment I feel like I can’t go through this again and that we need to just accept that our daughter will be an only child and be grateful for what we’ve got. I am so grateful and I feel very lucky to have her but I just want to have one more and give her a sibling. It’s going to take some time to process all of this.

Wishing those of you that got positives the very best of luck as your pregnancies progress.

And sending all those that got negatives, very best wishes in the next steps of your own journies.

Im so very sorry that you got a negative. Please be kind to yourself, you did everything right. I definitely understand the emotions your going through and the feelings of not wanting to keep going through the ivf process. It does feel so heavy. Take some time to move past this cycle, and see where how you feel a little later on down the track. Iv been in discussions with my husband today about what our next steps are if this cycle doesnt take, I have my beta on the 9th and im pretty sure il also have a negative.

So sorry @2mumlife , @CrumbleCake98 and @SparklyGreenTiger for your negatives. Sending love.

@Umbrellaladi Thank you. All our treatment has been private so it’s a natural end point for us really I think, though still both processing it a bit. To be honest, I wouldn’t want to do any more egg collections and be in a position of having embryos left frozen again. We did 4 medicated IUIs before moving on to IVF and never had any success so I’m not sure I’d feel it was worth trying that again. I’ve always had very clear positives on day 10 with my successful transfers and it was a blastocyst so not expecting anything on Wednesday morning, but taking the drugs today and tomorrow just in case some kind of bizarre miracle occurs.

@Miraclemuma03 I completely understand that urge to do it 1 last time. You’ve been through so much to try to achieve that. I think it’s very realistic still to have a negative on day 5 and it be successful so I’m keeping everything crossed for you. I think that for us is one of the main things why we said we’d do this last embryo then stop, as otherwise it becomes really hard to know when to stop otherwise. The feelings of having wanted 1 more don’t just suddenly stop overnight though, so it’s going to take time to see if we can settle as we are.

@SparklyGreenTiger I’m sorry you got a negative too. We’ve not been a very successful thread! If it helps, I think there are pros and cons of having any number of children. I do hope though that it works for you somehow to grow your family when that’s what’s in your heart

@hollyhd thank you. How you getting on?

@2mumlife we definitely have to find our end point. My husband wants to try a little longer. He wants to listen to the doctor at the clinic who told us we more then likely would need closer to 7 transfers before a successful transfer but I am not getting the embryos so have to start over every time. He did say its completely up to me since I have to go through it, so il wait to find out on thursday for confirmation on this cycle and work out what i want to do from there

OTD here 13dp5dt as expected it’s still negative though not going to lie was still carrying by that tiny tiny bit of hope we’d be the super rare case where it worked

Im so sorry its negative. Thats so hard to process. I havnt even gotten to otd and I have started spotting. Think il have full flow by tonight or morning.

@2mumlife so sorry. This process is devastating. I'm doing ok. Waiting patiently for otd, no signs either way

@Miraclemuma03 I hate spotting before OTD. I think thats the one thing I was holding on to really that I always spot before OTD on a negative and I didn't this time.

@hollyhd How you doing with the wait?

@2mumlife @SparklyGreenTiger @CrumbleCake98 I have been away for a few days but I am so very sorry to come back onto this thread and see the news. I was really hoping a successful outcome would be on the cards for you all. I imagine you all need time to process and consider next steps but I just wanted to wish you all the best of luck in the future whatever you decide.