First pregnancy natural, second IVF?

Has anyone had a natural pregnancy the first time around, and then after no luck had to use IVF? Just wondering how common it is?

i personally havent but a really good friend of mine fell pregnant naturally with her DD#1 and then after 8 years finally fell pregnant using IVF with her twins and then 2 years later fell pregnant naturally.
So i do know that it happens!
I hope that is not the case for you!

I had natural the first time then OI the second time. I see you're in Perth, what clinic are you at?

My first baby is a natural bub, but we are currently about to start our second IVF cycle for our second bub. Our situation is a bit different though because we are not going through IVF for fertility reasons. We have found that there is a condition on both sides of our family that has a genetic link, so we are having IVF with PGD to try to avoid the condition.

My DD is a natural bub... I fell pregnant with her super easy... Now after 4 years... 2 lap's and 2 IVF cycles we are still yet to conceive baby #2
(i have severe Endo)

{sarah} and her DH conceived their first son naturally and then had to use IVF for their little girl. I just want to give you a squishy :hug: too.

Sequoia, I am not with a clinic yet but I am wondering if we will be heading down that track soon? I really dont even know where to begin with it all, so any advice is appreciated!

Wow so it does happen....this is scary! :wall: :wall: stupid ectopic pregnancy!!!! :wall:

We fell naturally with ds (we were doing blood tracking) but had to move onto IUI to fall with this next one. We went through Hollywood.

It happens hun, and it sucks. Big hugs to you! :hug:

Like Sharon, we had BT tracking with first pregnancy, we went through FSWA. You'll need a referral from your GP and some people like to have a clinic thats close to home. Good luck.

Thanks girls, we are going o/seas in a week and a bit but once we are back and I've cleared my head a bit I will be off to see my GP and see what she has to say.

Yes my first and second were naturally concieved. Second we were not trying and I was on birth control. Now 2years on ttc no3 (DH 2nd) we are heading down the IVF track in the next few months due to another stupid ectopic pregnancy :wall:

Hi Isadora :)

Our little man was a miracle boy. I call him our fluke baby sometimes, though of course not when he is around. We tried for almost three years to conceive him & we somehow fluked it & got pregnant just before we were to start testing for IVF.

We TTC for 19 months before doing IVF to get our little girl, she was our second.

Amazingly we fell pregnant naturally last year, but we lost that baby at 10 weeks.

For us I think the difference is that we already knew there were issues. We knew we were going to have trouble conceiving the second time because we'd had problems the first time. That said I don't think it was any less scary knowing the it was going to be a possibility.

First things first though, you'll have to be tested to make sure you're ovulating & that DH's sperm count etc is ok. You never know, you might not be ovulating & all you'll need is clomid or something along those lines ;)

Try not to stress, enjoy your trip away & deal with it when you come home :hug:

Our DD was conceived naturally on our honeymoon, a beautiful surprise. I also conceived my second baby naturally when DD was 12 months old, again we were not ttc but not going out of our way to avoid a pregnancy either. Sadly, we lost that baby at 12 weeks.

I was diagnosed with an ovarian cyst just before I found out I was prg with #2 (and was possibly the cause of our m/c :(). It eventually required surgery. Said surgery left the left side of my reproductive system an absolute mess and I also lost pretty much all of my left ovary. We found this out after ttc for 8 months after the surgery with no luck which is not a long time, but for us it was given our history. I just had a feeling something wasn't right. 6 of those months were ttc with clomid which obviously did not work. I got a referral to an FS who did a lap and found out what was causing my infertility. We were told it was still possible to conceive naturally but there was no way of knowing how long that would take and were given only a 5% success rate per cycle. We decided with those odds to try IVF and were very lucky to fall pregnant on our first cycle with DS1 :)

Imagine our amazement when we found out we were pregnant again just after his first birthday, another natural conception!

So for me #1, #2 and #4 were natural conceptions, #3 is our super special IVF wonderboy :)

'Secondary infertility' is actually very common, you're definitely not alone :hug:

Thank you ladies for all your advice and info. :)

Mildez - Good luck with your ivf journey. I have a feeling I am not too far behind you.

Sarah - Thank you, I hope you are right about the clomid, I hope it is just something simple.

Willow - I too have that feeling of something not being right, also we have been ttc for 7 months now and in the past I have fallen pregnant within the first month of ttc. I hope the dr gives me some info when I get back! :)

Honestly after one baby and a regular on the dot cycle my whole life, I never ever thought I would have any issues with baby making. I will never take other people's ttc stories lightly anymore, it is SO HARD!!!

Isadora - :hug: It is really, really difficult to deal with. It was actually the darkest time in my life, the loss of our baby and then ttc with IVF. I actually ended up pretty depressed, it really was awful. But don't get too worried just yet. As sarah said, it could be something very simple. I have a friend who tried for about 12 months with bub #2. She had some testing done and found she wasn't ovulating. She did one cycle on clomid and along came bub #2. That sort of thing is also very common.

Our DD who is 10 was naturally conceived and we had to go the IVF route to have DS who is 21 months. Very fortunate to have him from our first cycle and transfer.

Hi,

We got our first baby sort of accidentially and have now been trying for the second for just over 2 years. I've never been so frustrated in my life!! We're mid way through our 3rd ivf cycle. Good luck, I hope you get pregnant soon.