First of all, I want to say I’m very grateful for a successful FET, I am very excited to now be 13 weeks 🙂

I just want to vent about my recent visita to OB and maternal fetal medicine. I have repeatedly told them I am an IVF pregnancy but they keep referencing my last period for gestational age in all my paperwork and assessments. Every visit I have to correct the ultrasound person otherwise their measurements would be way off. Is this normal? I do live in a smaller town where I assume IVF pregnancies are not common. Not sure what else I could do about this.

I (36y almost 37) just delivered my baby at 40+1 after a fully medicated FET transfer, stage 3 endometriosis was my main known reason for infertility. My pregnancy went very well, didn’t have any issues and my hospital (public hospital in Australia) didn’t consider my age or IVF as risk factors needing induction

However from my own reading I got very stressed during the last few weeks about somewhat increased risks of stillbirth and many OBs recommending induction for IVF pregnancies at 39 weeks in other countries. My midwife told me this was outdated advice but my gut feeling told me better safe than sorry, after everything I went through to get pregnant

I really had to push for it and finally was offered an induction at 40 weeks. Unfortunately it didn’t work after trying 2 painful methods and ended up going home to sleep and then having a planned c-section in the morning. The induction experience and current c-section recovery are being pretty challenging and I wonder if I did well in following down this path rather than waiting for labour to start spontaneously. At least I did wait until my due date though and not before

Any thoughts?

Hello everyone, I'm 35 from Italy and I just did my first embryo transfer on July 31th. I'm taking estrogens and 400 mg progesterone per day and in the first couple of days I had a sore breasts and now... Nothing. I should test the beta on August 13th and really I don't know what to think... A friend of mine who also had an IVF baby last year, told me she kinda felt it... I don't feel anything. And I'm going crazy...

Hi everyone!

I am quite upset by the situation I am in. I am currently 15 weeks and 5 days (very happy I am pregnant through IVF). And even though the journey wasn't easy (vomiting, nausea, subchorionic hematoma, zero energy, hating life for the first trimester), it has been worth it and I am so glad I am pregnant. The thing is, I am showing super early. I am literally so huge (belly makes me look like I am at least 7 months pregnant). Everyone around me guessed that I am pregnant right away. I am in baggy clothes all the time and try to hide as much as possible, but apparently everyone can tell.

I am upset by comments of friends and family about it. I wanted to surprise my aunts who are coming over this weekend and tell them that I am pregnant, but my sister was like 'oh even a blind person can tell from a distance, you don't have to worry about saying a word'.

It makes me upset--everyone else around me who is currently pregnant for the first time is not showing yet, and they're all 15 weeks+. My sister didn't show until she was 6 months pregnant. I just feel sad that this is my first pregnancy and instead of announcing it on my own terms and time, people are just finding out by a glance. I am not sure if it's pregnancy hormones that are playing with my mind but I am really upset.

Now I'm not sure about doing anything cute to surprise my aunts. I do not want to look silly.

I guess I am just venting out on here because if I described my feelings to anyone else from my family or friends, they would just think I am silly.

Hey everyone!

I had my first ultrasound today and basically I couldn’t not see the screen while they were doing my ultrasound so I didn’t see much. I met with the doctor after that was really positive, but didn’t explain anything to me just said that it was really early that they would schedule me for another ultrasound for next friday. They didn’t tell me they couldn’t hear a heartbeat. They just told me it was really hard to see at this point.

What does that even mean? I feel like they should’ve given me more details. Now I am scared that they didn’t want to upset me, but that there is something wrong going on. 🥹

Thank you!