Thanks everyone for your input! Interesting re the stim cycles having something to do with it. Jury is still out by the looks of it.
My scan went great, all normal, baby must have just been curling up tight when measured, as it around the 50th%ile for weight ( 2.7kg) and all normal so full steam ahead there. Looked really cute with chubby cheeks!
Special thanks to Traveller for coming and holding my hand through the scan
Hey Saffy, congrats on your pregnancy!!! We are due within a few days of each other . Glad to hear all is well with your bub and the scan. I've been fascinated to read this thread. I hadn't heard of some of these possible outcomes due to IVF. I just figured once you got pregnant you were like anyone else in the community and your pregnancy would be treated the same. I remember when I was waiting for my first very overdue bub to make some moves to come into the world, a random consulting Ob was amazed that I, an IVFer/LTer wasn't freaking out about getting my baby out ASAP. According to him, we can tend to be more nervous and want bub out sooner.
DD was 4kgs and 17 days overdue, but until I read Traveller's post I hadn't given any thought to whether, because I used an egg donor this affected the outcome. Who knows LOL! Best of luck with everything over the next few weeks.
Hi Dusty, thanks!
Thats funny because I do remember you going overdue and getting stressed for you ( as a midwife my only experience of ivf patients was most of them having elective cesears for anxiety!) but of course all was good. I didn't get the gist of the donor bit- did it mean the babies weren't any smaller cos the donor had the stimulation- so its the ovarian stim that causes the smallness not the baby?? Anyway, doesn't matter cos my baby is normal sized.
Funnily enough, my sister just had her first baby last night and it was 4.6kg! Not ivf obviously!! One extreme to the other. My obstetrician will be glad I had another growth check when she hears that!
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