Just wanted to share my experiences from our last IVF cycle. This was our fourth and final cycle and as I have always had low egg numbers (though good fertilisation rates despite this) and none of the six day 5 blastocysts we've achieved have taken, my doc put me on a different treatment plan this time around.

It involved taking a hormone called DHEA for three months prior to our IVF cycle starting. I continued it through the cycle until pregnancy test. The DHEA has been found to help the quality and quantity of eggs in some women with low egg numbers. I've had a lot of endo on and in my ovaries so I don't get many eggs. My last cycle we had to use ICSI and only had one egg and it didn't fertilise so when I got five eggs this time around I was thrilled. We had five grade 1s by day 3 but on the day of transfer one grade 2 to put back.

Before the transfer I had a 1500 Pregnyl injection (Mon night for a Thurs transfer) and again the day after (Fri night). From transfer to pregnancy test I have been injecting Clexane which can help with implantation. I've also been taking 500mcg of folate, twice a day.

I had all sorts of symptoms during the TWW - cramping (quite strong the day before my blood test and really strong the morning of the test), nausea all day some days, a strange strong twitching sensation just behind my belly button, food that tasted off, a metallic taste in my mouth - most of these started five days after my last Pregnyl injection. I cried the whole day of the transfer (don't know why - overwhelmed perhaps) and had days where I was very teary.

Pre-empting what I thought would be a negative result yesterday, I rang my mum to tell her it hadn't worked (poor thing was very upset) and a few girlfriends who knew we were doing our last go. I think I just wanted to protect myself and bunker down with my husband when the call came in the afternoon. What I didn't expect was that my doctor would ring me with different news - I am pregnant! I'm still in a state of shock and it all feels very fragile but for now I'm letting myself take it in. This is my first ever pregnancy.

I hope that anything new I've experienced that I've described here may be helpful to someone else, like your posts have helped me. Thanks for being brave and sharing your journeys here.