Hi FG

I am so sorry your last embie didn't make it hun. That must have been so so dissapointing for you both.

I think they will have learnt a lot from your first stim cycle so the FS will probably tweak your drugs to ensure a good result for you. Your numbers were actually pretty spot on as they try to aim for 10-15 eggs to ensure quality and reduce risk of OHSS.

In regards to helping the implantation, I have never had one (but am still trying!) but there are things you can do to help yourself, so that you at least feel you are doing all that you can.

You may already be doing acupuncture, but if not, I find it incredibly good firstly for relaxation (my bliss out I call it), and secondly there have been some medical studies that suggest there may be benefits to having AP leading up to and during an IVF cycle. Perhaps find a good AP near you that has some IVF/ TCC experience/success.

You may like to reduce the stress in your life for a while. A lot of people just add IVF on top of a busy life but I have found that life sometimes needs to fit a bit around IVF, especially during a stim cycle.

I remember BW was on a special low GI diet from her FS perhaps you could ask her about it.

Egg quality can vary each month but the more you do to help it be at an optimum the better chance for fertilisation and producing strong embies that can cope with thaws. My sister spent much time on herbal tinctures and heathy eating to ensure any eggs she produced (PCOS) were optimum and she fell pg against all odds.

Anyway these a few of the things I thought may help you to do all you can to help your chances of implantation of a good embie. Batcoat has a point (as you did too) that it is a numbers game sometimes. It hurts when it doesn't work and other people's does but persistence may just be the key.

Best of luck with it all hun.

xx