Sex post transfer?

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My clinic has given me no advice at all and I'm seeing conflicting advice online. Is sex allowed after a (frozen) transfer? After a few days, of course.

Hi,
My clinic’s advice was to abstain until test day and then it’s totally fine. Two reasons given, one to not disturb implantation and two to reduce infection risk given they put a speculum through your cervix. However in practical reality both of those would be over well before a test date (mine was 14dp5dt) so it’s probably a little conservative, but I imagine they just want to give unambiguous guidance such as ‘test day’.

I wouldn't. Presumably quite a lot rests on the outcome of the transfer for you. It may have no impact, but you will never know for sure. Do you want to live with what ifs?

Hmm good points. Thank you, will act accordingly, not worth the risk!

Yes you can have sex if you feel comfortable . Infact in some cases it can help with implantation. Its natural and in many cases if you were to be ttc naturally you wouldnt be non the wiser about implantation and all that stuff. You would continue to have sex right up until you took a test when you miss a period. Same as sex in early pregnancy is perfectly fine. My clinic says no sex for 48hrs after a transfer only because of the trauma to the cervix during transfer. Other then that if I feel good and comfortable I can go about my business as usual including in every day to day life. But every clinic is different i guess but you cant stop an embryo implanting if thats what its going to do with in reason. Good luck and i hope for a positive outcome.

This is the advice on my clinic’s website re sex post transfer. I personally was too chicken! I resumed my normal workouts after the two week wait but was too nervous to have sex.

Really glad we didn’t with hindsight either as the internal probe at the first scan dislodged an enormous pool of old blood! Everything was ok thankfully but it was quite dramatic and I don’t think our sex life would ever have recovered from that!!