IVF May 2026 - Transfers

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Anyone else having embryo transfers next month and preparing now?

I love this 😂

So great to see your BFPs ladies! 💛💛

I had a bit of a freak out today, as I've been feeling completely normal, no symptoms. Was feeling fatigued before but that's gone and I actually feel quite energetic. I've been having some brown discharge today as well - I messaged my clinic and they said they're not worried and it's just old blood. Anyway I went for a private scan because it was just on my mind and our scan with the clinic isn't till Monday - I'm 5 weeks 5 days and the sonographer said she can see the gestational sac and yolk sac but no fetal pole yet (which she said was normal). But I just don't feel particularly reassured after all that!

Was feeling so chill last week and now this week am just worrying about worst case scenarios....when does it end 😅

Hello ladies. I’ve been reading along over the month, and have tried to keep calm with my latest transfer but three days before OTD and I am no longer chill. I’m so impatient. Can’t relax thinking about it all. Can’t think of much else.

I posted earlier in the month asking for advice on going ahead with a natural cycle the month following a fully medicated failed cycle and my clinic gave the go ahead. Deep down I’m preparing for a negative just based on previous symptoms around this time (even though they say there’s no difference between PMS and pregnancy this early - I really feel there is) but obviously hoping to be proved wrong.

The hope is almost the worst bit. You don’t want to be negative about it all but don’t want to get your hopes up again and in lieu of a negative test or obvious symptoms, it’s also hard not to have hope. Impossible situation. Anyways not really saying anything useful here, just getting it out 😂🙈

Huge congratulations to those of you who have positives this round and so sorry to those who didn’t get their BFP this time. I know the feeling all too well. To those who are still waiting, solidarity. To say this is hard is the world’s biggest understatement.

It sounds like a really positive scan… the devlopment is moving in the correct direction and it’s understandable to guard your heart but there is progress there. Keep being strong 🤍

@TTCbaby2xox i felt like this too, I think as you get closer to OTD you know a test might give you an answer so it makes it so tricky. I’ve got everything crossed that this is your sticky embryo!!! I think it’s really hard to judge symptoms during the 2ww, are you on a sibling round?

@TheMintCrab also the same I’m feeling quite nauseous but it comes and goes in waves. Sometimes I feel absolutely fine and I convince myself there definitely won’t get a heartbeat 🙈 sounds like the scan went really well, do you have another one booked? I didn’t have any discharge this time but I definitely had brown spotting with my last pregnancy so think it can be quite normal (especially if you are using pessaries I think they can irritate things?)

I feel you. You want to be excited but you can’t. You want to check out and tell yourself it’s going to be negative, but you can’t. It really is an impossible situation to navigate.

My PMS symptoms were so strong I told DH we were out around day 9. He brought me cake and coffee from Starbucks to my work later that day as he knew how deflated I felt. So, it blew his mind when I was totally wrong. I was convinced I was out.
i hope you get good news this time 🙏🏻

The worry never ends, you just worry about different things 🙈😵‍💫
It sounds really positive from today’s scan, hang on to those facts when you’re minds in over drive 💛

a very true statement!

Thank you @OneGladOtter @Ellenn @Greentiles67 😘really do appreciate your sage words. I think my mind is just trying to search for any kind of certainty that everything is ok - but it’s too early and not sure it you ever do get that. Got the scan with our clinic on Monday 8th, when I’ll be 6+4 so hopefully that will be a bit more reassuring

Hope you’re all ok in the waiting trenches!

@TTCbaby2xoxsending you so much love and strength, I really hope this is your round ✨. I’m struggling with hope too. My therapist (who had IVF herself) said there is no way to remove hope. No matter what you do the hope will always be there and they’ve done studies that show trying to pre-empt a bad event by imagining it doesn’t actually soften the blow, you just suffer twice. Doesn’t stop me 🤣! That I’m still feeling a bit disconnected from it as I can’t actually imagine it working out, and still have the luxury of having a good week to go until my test day.

In clinic they asked if I was excited on transfer day and I just looked at them like they were mad and didn’t have an answer. “Excited”?! This is the furthest we’ve gotten and my husband is suddenly way more invested in this stage (reading all the post transfer care information when he never normally reads anything, asked me to keep him posted on my progesterone and oestrogen 2dpt test today - he’s never asked for updates at any stage before - and he even described me as being in “incubating mode”) and I’m worried he’s setting himself up for a fall.

@TheMintCrabI hope you’re feeling better and I’m sorry I can completely understand, I can’t imagine at what stage I would feel ‘safe’ or be without worry after the process we’ve all been through. Keeping everything crossed it’s more good news on 8th ✨

its totally understandable and i feel the same. Its such a waiting game at every stage- your trying to be hopeful but not too much hope as you dont want to jinx it…time slows at every stage x