Lurker from IF; Advice and tips needed!!

Irishlove16

Hey all!

What are some helpful tips or advice for prior or after FET that have helped you finally get your successful pregnancies?! This will be my 4th transfer after 2 IVF cycles, and 2 miscarriages. I'm looking for anything I can try this go around that could help? I do acupuncture, and this cycle I've been going to church and will be also doing baby aspirin after transfer. We also did PGD so we know these two embies are genetically normal this transfer! Hoping that makes a huge difference for us! I heard about the pineapple cord and warm feet I think?? Advice and tips greatly appreciated!! TIA!

FishyMom

I did the pineapple with my first transfer, it unfortunately ended with a mc. I did not do it for FET1 but it was a bfn. Did it again with FET 2 and so far so good. Not sure it made a difference, but I would never not do it again.

I am wishing you good luck! I am rooting hard for you.

O2girl

I did the pineapple core this FET and so far so good. I don't know that that is the reason though. Several things were changed up this time around.... I did 3 months of depot Lupron to calm my uterus down, did PIO vs crinone, and the pineapple core so maybe it was all three or a combination or perhaps my last FET was a fluke fail.

Personally, I think for me it was the PIO that made the difference.

Fx for you! Bottom line is that if you throw the kitchen sink in too something is bound to work!!!

indianaalum

I would be careful about the pineapple thing. I looked it up  on web, and it does stuff to the cervix which could lead to miscarriage..At least, that is what I found in the article I found

whoberry

I have no idea if this helped or not, but I definitely did a good 24 hours of bed rest after the transfer that got me here. Then I took it easy for the next 24 but was slightly more active.  With my first  transfer I went straight to work afterwards and ended up with an ectopic.

  The other thing I changed was limiting my BPA intake.  I didn't know that it was in cans and I was drinking a can or two of soda a day plus I eat canned food.  It's pretty much impossible to avoid BPA but I decided to reduce my exposure to it as much as possible.  That was around 4-6 weeks before transfer. I quit drinking canned drinks and stopped eating canned food. We had already switched to all glass tupperware, I threw out all my plastic cups, and made sure all my reusable water bottles were BPA free.

I don't know if it helped or not, but shortly after my BFP an article came out regarding a study where women with higher BPA levels had an increased risk of miscarriage, so I was pretty glad I'd started reducing my exposure to it before my transfer. Here is one of the articles.

Good luck with your transfer!!!

overwhelmed29

I did acupuncture for the first time before and after FET. I also just laid around after transfer and took it easy for the next few days. 

boymomstrong

With my successes, i took 3 days to rest after both, try to stay away from germs and avoid sick people, have sex if you can, the orgasims from sex tend to help implantation (according to my RE any way to get off is good) also eat a ton of yogurt to help prevent any other yeast issues...

I took baby aspirin during my whole process, did PIO, and took 4mg folic acid all until 12 weeks...

I will tell you i had one loss btwn my babies, and my RE believes its due to the flu i got transfer weekend, my son got sick and 24 hours later i was sick, my temp was 103 for 2 days, i ended up losing that baby... Do your best to stay well!!!

Also positive thinking cant hurt! I told my embies to snuggle in and i would be the best mommy they ever had! made me feel good...