BC, IVF, and Potential Due Date

Toni79 · March 2011

I'm on CD1, starting BC soon, and my first IFV cycle.

Ok, I understand the concept (sort of) of taking BC before your IVF cycle to supress hormone production prior to "jacking up" your hormes yet again. lol

Although if someone could expaline this better, it might make more sence to me!?!?!

Anyway, at the begining of each natural and IUI cycle I sort of estimate what my due date would be (ok, maybe not the healtiest thing to do after 2+ years of dissapointments, but what can I say, I'm a control freak!)

So I realized today, that because I'll be on BC for the next 21 days or so, and all the injections start after I get my next period . . . that means that technically this month is a wash (as is a 2010 baby). At least I won't be heart broken when I get my period next month.

sarah0925 · March 2011

I figure out the EDD every cycle too. I hope IVF #1 is it for you. Good luck!

MrsRumpf · March 2011

I believe you mean no 2011 baby?

2012 will be a great year for babies too!

You will estimate your due date my the date of ovulation or your HcG trigger.

It's actually pretty accurate since we know exactly when Ov occurred.

GL!

ecleptic · March 2011

The BCP thing- Okay, so you have a normal unmedicated cycle. During that cycle your hormones fluctuate and you ovulate and at the end of it you have a period. During that time frame, there are several things that could go wrong (cysts, delayed ovulation due to stress etc etc etc) that would throw off the timing for the start of your injections.

Several protocols require you to start Lupron before the start of the cycle in which you take the stims. If I recall correctly, you don't really want to be on Lupron if there's a chance you are actually pregnant so the BCP does a dual purpose in those cycles of making sure you're not pregant while you're taking the suppressant.

It also (for no-lupron protocols) keeps your follicles calm- since you're not ovulating, you're also not developing a cyst. Since you're not ovulating, you get to be very specific about the start date of your next period. It's giving your doctor control of the hormones.

You need to think of it not as a cycle lost to BCP but as the first few weeks of the big IVF cycle- which just happens to have a period in the middle of it. The IVF cycle takes 6+ weeks if you count the BCP phase and the two week wait

And yeah, you're definitely not the only one who checks due dates. We're starting stims soon (I'm actually in the strange situation that stopping BCP on Thursday hasn't resulted in a period and I'm kinda freaked out by what that means to our stim start date.) and I did the math on a retrieval of April 1st, that being a good round number of stim days- I'd be having a Christmas baby (actually the 23rd). Which, in my rather unconventional opinion, is actually pretty awesome.

But here's the hope I'm holding if IVF #1 doesn't work and we have to try again: 2012 is the zodiac year of the Dragon. Dragons are awesome. I can totally get behind the idea of a dragon baby. (It probably helps that my husband's nickname for me is Dragon). Just think of some great things about 2012 to look forward to.

Toni79 · March 2011

MrsRumpf:

I believe you mean no 2011 baby?

Oops! Yes, that is what I ment. You'd think I'd know what year we were in by now (I mean it's almost April!) LOL!

Toni79 · March 2011

ecleptic:

. . .

You need to think of it not as a cycle lost to BCP but as the first few weeks of the big IVF cycle- which just happens to have a period in the middle of it. The IVF cycle takes 6+ weeks if you count the BCP phase and the two week wait

. . .

But here's the hope I'm holding if IVF #1 doesn't work and we have to try again: 2012 is the zodiac year of the Dragon.

. . .

thanks ecleptic! that is a good way a looking at it

and now i know 2012 is the zodiac year of the dragon, that's pretty cool!

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