Stories of hope please... 2nd cycle

[Jessy1280]

So my first cycle failed (as I've mentioned a billion times 🙈) and I'm currently on cycle 2 - norethisterone for 9 days. No good reason why the first cycle failed. Excellent amh, good quality embryos, thawed perfectly...

However I can't help feel that cycle 2 will also fail and that there's something wrong with me. I feel like I'll never be a mum or that I'm different to my friends. Second cycle, completely different meds. Antagonist this time due to high risk of OHSS again. Scared I won't get as many eggs. I set the bar high with cycle 1 with 18! I was left with only 3 viable embryos though.

Anyone else been in a similar position but got a bfp on cycle 2? I feel like I'm throwing money on a pipe dream that I can never give up on 😢

[Missl73]

The best advice I can give is try not to compare your cycles too much as every cycle is different. My second fresh cycle I got half as many eggs and cried my eyes out thinking it was doomed but then miraculously every single one fertilised and every single one made it to day 5 blastocysts, which meant from half the number of eggs I got 4 times as many embryos with some to freeze which I’d never had before!! I had to do a freeze-all because I got fluid in my uterus but I’m now 5 weeks from a FET with one of the embryos from that cycle. The average number of cycles to get a take home baby is 3 so just because the first one didn’t work it certainly doesn’t mean that future cycles won’t. Good luck lovely xx

[Jessy1280 in reply to Missl73]

Thank you so much. Needed to hear this. Congratulations! X

[crisps88]

Heyy. I second this - do not compare the two cycles. My first was absolute Complete failure. It was totally awful, I barely made it to day 5 with a less than 5% chance of pregnancy. My eggs of quality and quantity were to blame, second cycle - total same meds/trigger etc but just nearly double the strength. I didn’t think it wouldn’t not work at all, I didn’t think it was possible it wouldn’t work.

We've got one baby snuggled in at 13 weeks 1 day and 3 top grade siblings in the freezer. I didn’t change any of my diet nor alcohol intake, I took a hell of a lot of supplements for my eggs. I did change my outlook on the cycle and didn’t have any expectations, I also didn’t do the fertility acupuncture I did in the first cycle. Good luck Hun xxx

[Jessy1280 in reply to crisps88]

That's brilliant! Congratulations! X

[Mary80]

Hello pls be very positive and try not to compare the first to the second.

Mine the first was... Four eggs retrieved and one fertilised. But it failed. Second ivf five eggs retrieved three fertilised and made it to five days blastocyst. I was so hopeful only for them to tell me on d day of implantation that two had failed and I only have one left. I just smiled but inside me I was boiling with so much anger. It failed again. They blamed it on age. Im 39.

So your second ivf might better than d first one. Just believe and prepare your body. Goodluck.

[Hidden]

I was doom and gloom for my second cycle - everything was changed (protocol and drugs) and I got my BFP, sadly I MC but that was due to other factors. My second cycle I felt my body had worked out what it was supposed to do - I am sure yours does too! Masses of luck! xx

[Jessy1280 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you soooo much. Here's hoping xxx