Pregnancy after LT TTC #16

[nothing2lose]

Hi girls!

Hope you dont mind me posting on your thread. I got a bfn today after my first transfer (2nd stim cycle). Just wondering if there is anything you each did differently on your bfp cycle?? I am working out a plan of attack and any tips of what you think helped would be most welcome!


Many thanks
N2l

[Kaybee]

Airline - that's brilliant news - both that everything seems ok AND that you are going to have a baby...tomorrow!!! I'm sure you won't be on here for a while, so I'll be sending you lots of calm vibes for your birth. Can't wait to hear about it

Kelly - Oh My God! How much have you grown in just 2 weeks! I'm feeling for you mate

[grub17]

just a quick one to wish airlien all the best for tomorrow!!! that's so super exciting!!! bet you don't get much sleep tonight! lol.

N2L - for my first cycle i could barely get out of bed and didn't do much... got BFN from fresh and frostie. For my 2nd cycle i ran every single day (about 10km per day) plus swam and cycled... so really really healthy and fit... I truly believe this helped us get such great quality eggs. One is a cheeky little 15 month old, who i hope is alseep right now and the other is a cheeky little 27 week old foetus with it's foot or hand or such in my ribs! These were from the same collection. My DS was the first transfer (so fresh), and this little one i'm carrying now was the first frostie we used. We have one egg left. So didn't get heaps of eggs but got really good quality ones. I'm sure none of this is scientifically proven etc but for me, I feel in my soul that me being really fit helped heaps - all that good oxygenated blood As for the actual transfer - did i do anything different... with DS I rested for 2 days in bed and didn't move. With this one I had our entire family visiting for DS's christening and had 20 people at our house for lunch... and it rained!!! so i was somewhat stressy! So for us, relaxed or stressed - didn't seem to matter.

oh so much for a quick one!!!

i've got a virus atm. chest/head flu/cold thingy. made more painful runnign after 15 month old. ugh. pana-frak-ing-dol just doesn't cut it some days!

[dreamrise659]

I got a bfn today after my first transfer (2nd stim cycle). Just wondering if there is anything you each did differently on your bfp cycle?? I am working out a plan of attack and any tips of what you think helped would be most welcome!N2l

Hi,
I had two cycles. One I only got one egg and therefore just a fresh transfer and it resulted in a chemical pregnancy. The 2nd I got 4 eggs - had two transferred fresh and then 2 transferred frozen - all BFN's.
I was working in a very stressful sitation at the time. A few weeks before what was going to be my last IVF attempt I quit my job and started a new lower stress one. I also had accupuncture. My blood pressure went back to my normal (which is actually low) whereas throughout the other cycles it had been "normal" which is actually high for me. The accupuncturist commented on how much better I was looking by the time I had my session with him just before egg pick up (compared to my first one a few weeks earlier). And I got my BFP. I truly believe in my case that stress was the major reason I wasn't getting pregnant (I had also done a year of donor insemination prior to IVF) and once I had got free of that stressful situation my body responded well.

don't know what your personal circumstances are like but if you have stress in your life it might be worth looking into what you can do to relieve it. :-)

Lori (single mum)
DD- 14yrs old (unplanned and we were using contraception - the best thing to ever happen to me)
Bub no.2 - due late August (over 4 years in the making).

[TaRhLi.]

OMG Airline: I know you are very busy now but how exciting that you will meet your little man so soon. I can't wait to hear your BA...

FREAK GIRLS this means I'm next on our list...

Kaybee: Yep some huge increase in size in the last 2 weeks, I can't believe so much can fit in such a small space lol..

Grub: DH is home sick today and I've been making sure he doses up on cold & flu tablets, I really don't think I could cope if I got sick or DD at the moment. I'm feeling for you love.

Possums, MH & DR: sending you all belly rubs. Can you believe how close you all are to being 1/2 way.

N2L: I wish I could tell you something that would make it happen but with my BFP for DD I went in with no expectations after having already had 1 fresh and 2 FET's. Although with her successful transfer I had just quit my job, been on a much needed holiday and we moved house 1 week before the transfer so I had other things to focus on as well. This time around I didn't think we would be successful at all so my thinking was more along the line of "I have to give it a go or I'll never know" but really wasn't expecting anything. So when we got a BFN with FET #4 I wasn't suprised but we went again as we still had frosties in the freezer and what do you know #5 was a double surprise. After the transfer life carried on as normal for us as I had a toddler to chase after and apart from being on progesterone (which is standard for my clinic) I did nothing different. Hopefully you will get you BFP very soon.

[Possums]

thinking of you airline

kelly- exciting and scary being next on the list!

N2L- this cycle i basically lowered my expectations, I had had a long break from IVF and had more balance back in my life...I also had a couple of great holidays not long before we started the cycle, so I went into it with less stress I believe. I did use acupuncture also, and just continued to do my normal activities/fitness etc and eat well. I dont know whether there is a reason why it worked this time, but I certainly felt calmer about it all than previously. wishing you the best of luck!

[Mindhugs]

You know what..................I have to add to the above posts that I had endured 2 gutwrenching IVF miscarriages last year and although we had one frostie left to use DH and I had resigned ourselves that perhaps this just wasn't in the cards for us. So I began moving on to a plan B. I applied for and was accepted into a very difficult uni course. Same week I got my 1st round offer I got my BFP, and this time it has stuck! So yes, there is something to be said for taking the stress and focus away from the whole IVF transfer thing. I agree with the girls. Add to that the usual acupuncture, supplements and exercise (plus a clinic that puts you on the progesterone pessaries) and.................

Good luck N2L. Pop in whenever you like and we all look forward to you joining us to share your wonderful pregnancy journey xoxo

[nothing2lose]

Thanks soooo much girls!!

I am devising a plan of attack...I am doing a natural FET this month so hopefully I will be back soon as a bone fide thread member!!!

Good luck to you all in your baby-growing

take care x

n2l

[Possums]

good luck N2L, hope to see you in here very soon

airline- thinking of you

[JBM]

n2L; hope you and i will both be in here together. i too am trying the less stress thing with a 4 day holiday with a friend (female) just before i start sniffing and jabbing. and acupuncture which i have been doing for about 3 years now and continued pregnancy vitamins and chinese fertility herbs.
now breathe and relax. lol
hi to all you preggers ladies too. i'll be seeing you in here soon. ;-)