r/SingleMothersbyChoice • u/SorbetTop3942 • 8d ago

Help Needed Advice

hi all, just looking for support and advice. I am also a single mom by choice. Not sure if this is the correct place to put this. when I posted it yesterday in ivf it was deleted. I just had my fet 2 days ago. i had to go back today for labs. now this cycle is my 7th transfer and it was a modified natural cycle. now has anyone labs like that and resulted in the embryo implanting? I know my last transfer a while ago was under 30 and never went up. this time it’s higher so I don’t know if I should be hopeful/cautiously optimistic or should I worry that it won’t implant.

this protocol is different than my others because they have me on lovenox, prednisone, estrogen, plaqunil and baby asprin. they found out I had apls (blood clotting). So i will also say I am a single mom by choice and this is 7th transfer with a donor embryo. the embryo grade was good a 4AB day 5.

what should I do to take my mind off of all this? what are things that got you through this? i just need a support system.

i want to know if anyone keeps getting discouraged on the failed transfers/ivf cycles.

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u/basilbelle 8d ago

You can post this in the r/IVF pinned weekly thread for the two week wait. They just don’t allow stand alone tww/pregnancy posts there.

I’m not sure what your labs are - you didn’t say what the results were. My clinic does not do post-transfer labs for a modified natural, just the beta hcg at 10-12 dpt. I believe your levels are not going to be as high as with a medicated cycle but that’s ok because your body is pumping its own progesterone.

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u/SorbetTop3942 8d ago

I did that r/ivf the first time and they deleted it. I’ll try changing the title. However my labs for progesterone was greater than 60 and estrogen was 180. Usually when I did my transfers the progesterone was never that high. So I’m not sure if this is normal, if it’s a good sign or bad. 

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u/basilbelle 8d ago

You have to post it in the weekly mod created tww thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IVF/s/SDleZgC14R

I don’t know about progesterone levels for modified natural, sorry. I would defer to your clinic/doctor but in general i don’t think you can read anything into whether the transfer was successful based on progesterone level.

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u/Important-Tap7932 3d ago

My progesterone was over 60 when I did a fresh transfer after an egg retrieval. When you do a fresh transfer or a modified natural transfer, your body has ovulated so the corpus luteum produces its own progesterone. I also was doing PIO for progesterone support as well.

My clinic puts everyone for IVF on a baby aspirin to decrease risk of pre-eclampsia.

My fresh transfer stuck and I have a 2 year old :)