Is my IVF consultant right, or do I have some hope

[Kharm123]

Hi all,

I have just gone through my first round of IVF. Very naively as everything was pretty smooth sailing. Injects sucked but they feel so long ago I have almost forgot what that was like. We got 10 eggs, 9 mature, 8 fertiled and we had 1 transferred and 4 popped in the freezer.

5AA. Is what we used. Everyone was so excited, the consultant, people in the room. It was feeling so good! We got a positive pregnancy test, the line showed immediately. Again surely a good sign.

had a scan at 6 weeks and 5 days. And the consultant has told us it’s too small.

only 3mm, but there is a sack and a heart flutter. If we were naturally pregnant she would say we were but think we had the dates wrong. But being IVF she has said “it’s not fair to tell you are pregnant as it’s not growing”. We have another scan 10 days after this. Still been told to take the progesterone tablets until then. But obviously this has hit me so hard. I struggle to sleep, have had to lock myself away from people as I can’t speak about it. If they text I can but the words can’t leave my mouth.

is it all over, can this come back to being a happy story? Has anyone ever see this start growing and have a baby from it?

I don’t have any advice sorry - but it does seem a bit early to give up hope. On the positive side I am guessing you had a 5 day blastocyst put in - which means clinic thinks it has its placenta cells and all the right things it needs to grow. Good luck.

Honestly, keep positive. I believe your consultant was trying to keep your expectations low in the event it is bad news.

You've done everything right, and I hope and pray it turns out well for you.

There's always hope, I had 2 eggs implanted, both caught but were very small, they did grow though. I gave birth to twins at 30 weeks, both weighed about 1 pound when born. It was a bit touch and go at the time but they're in school now, small still but perfectly formed! I hope it works out for you 💐

There is always hope OP.
Can I ask why you are having IVF? I had several rounds, despite there never being a cause for sub fertility found. I had 2 natural MC's after TTC for years, and by that stage was 40 when I had the 1st round of IVF.

I had similar and the scan was very small, as was the follow up one. Unfortunately I MC and the cause was put down to old eggs. Due to it being my 3rd loss, I was allowed to have genetic testing done, which showed a random, genetic issue, again, likely due to older eggs.
Hopefully yours is just small OP and all will be well. x