Trying naturally after successful IVF, has it worked for anyone?

[Daniki]

Basically as title says, we said we would give it a go naturally for a few months before going for another transfer. I know realistically probably won’t happen naturally but there is always hope!

backstory, I just turned 38. have 2 children, 1st was conceived naturally and is 6, no 2 was ivf transfer no 2, she is 14 months. I had 4 miscarriages in between and have an autoimmune condition which meant a whole lot of meds for no 2 to he successful.

sitting here at 9dpo with a negative test feeling silly for thinking it could work 🙈

It didn't work for me sorry. 38 and six years since last IVF cycle. I take pregnancy tests when ever my period is more that a week late and always feel stupid too for daring to even consider. Just commenting so you know your not alone x

Ah don’t feel stupid 🫂

I did conceive between egg retrieval and a planned FET. I’d had endometriosis surgery, did the egg retrieval my first period post surgery (for fertility preservation just in case I had a big drop off in ovarian function from the operation) and then the plan was to do an FET once I healed. I found out I was pregnant at the first FET scan after a few days taking oestrogen and miscarried shortly after. It was really upsetting (I’m so sorry for your losses too) but it did make me feel better about the original plan of going ahead with a transfer. My consultant who also did my endo surgery had told me a transfer was the best way to “optimise outcomes” in my case. I’d been conflicted though as I felt like I should be trying to conceive naturally post surgery, even though my gut told me to wait for a transfer. I was convinced I was pregnant a few times during that wait before it actually happened so I can relate to the feeling silly 🫂

Is there any way you can get the meds now to support your autoimmune condition?

@LLVits the hope that will kill me! 🙈 fairly bad cramps startint now so I know AF is on the way!

@SlightlyTerrifiedButPoliteyes I did actually, the recurrent miscarriage clinic sent me a script incase by some miracle I did conceive! 🙏

My sister in law had ivf for first child and then accidentally naturally conceived her second child ending up with a 15 month age gap.

I also know a woman with 5 children and the first two were IVF. After that she had three naturally.

I don’t know what the cause of their infertility was though.