Successful Natural FET stories??? Feeling like it won't work without chemical intervention.

[ashbb]

Hiya,

I'm going in for bloods on the 5th with view to transferring an embryo at the right time in my cycle. Which day of the cycle was your transfer???

I'm feeling really unsettled and negative...i already believe the embryo just won't stick as I've never been pregnant before naturally. My gut tells me my womb is inhospitable (I have no evidence of this though).

The clinic say there's no need to use the progesterone suppositories. There's no evidence to say they help in a natural FET.

I fluctuate from feeling like "this could work and I'd be the happiest person alive" to "this is never going to work and I'm going to be eternally depressed and have to accept I'll be childless the rest of my life"

How do you stay balanced???

[IVFat40]

Just wanted to share my clinic told me that there's some evidence natural FETs actually have a better success rate than medicated ones, if that's reassuring at all.That said they did also tell me to take progesterone after the embryo transfer on my natural FET, similarly to yours they said there isn't clear evidence it helps but it won't do any harm - this was after I bled early before my OTD on my first (unsuccessful) natural FET.

With my second natural FET I had a chemical pregnancy unfortunately, but for me in an odd way this still felt like a step forward as it was my first ever implantation/positive pregnancy test.

Wishing you so much luck on this terribly hard journey.

[ashbb in reply to IVFat40]

Thank you so much for replying. My anxiety has reduced a bit. FET is on Monday! Hope luck is on our side. Wishing the best for you tooXx

[EL7815]

I had a natural FET, transferred on 1 September now 20+2 weeks pregnant and so far so good (🤞). I didn’t have progesterone either and it worked for me. Our infertility is purely MFI and I had never been pregnant naturally before either. I don’t think my body coped with all the meds from my egg collection and fresh transfer but obviously, they can never tell you 100% why transfers fail.

Obviously everyone is different but it can work. I’m sorry I can’t remember what day of my cycle I transferred exactly but it was 6 days after my LH surge.

All the best of luck with your FET 💕

[ashbb in reply to EL7815]

Hello. Thank you for your response. FET Monday!! Any tips or advice for after besides no hot baths? Going to just try keep busy over next could weeks. 🤞🤞

[EL7815 in reply to ashbb]

Good luck with your FET! I didn’t do anything in particular, I honestly didn’t think it would work so I think I went into it a little less stressed. I ate chocolate and had a glass of prosecco 😂 and like you said, kept myself busy with work. But just do whatever you feel you need to do to get through those 2 weeks!

[Orla9298]

I believe most in a natural FET if your body clearly shows ovulation, with progesterone after. My only ivf transfer that stuck was natural (still failed, but still!). My medicated own egg transfer failed. My surrogate had a medicated transfer of our best embryo and I think it landed on about day 17. (she felt pushed into it by the clinic even though she wanted natural) and it failed. Our next embryo wasnt as good and we insisted on natural and it stuck nicely. I firmly believe in natural, with progesterone support, but obviously medicated is necessary for some. Sadly I think clinics often push medicated for their own convenience of control.

[ashbb in reply to Orla9298]

Thank you. Reassuring. I just got the call today that my FET will be Monday. Excited and apprehensive at the same time. They'll give me an otrivelle jag to support implantation. Then we wait. Can only hope we're lucky.

[Orla9298 in reply to ashbb]

Oh that’s fab to have the trigger just as an extra support. Only thing is you can’t be an early tester! So much luck to you xx

[ashbb in reply to Orla9298]

Good advice. Does that trigger give people false positives? X

[BBHH1]

I think people who fertility problems should try everything that is not harmful. Which I think included progesterone. No evidence that it works is not the same as evidence that it doesn’t. It just must means we don’t know. Progesterone has been shown to be helpful in recurrent miscarriage at least. In my natural pregnancies I used progesterone and I don’t regret. I miscarried but at least I know that was not an issue. Ultimately you need to feel confident on what you are doing and don’t second guess what you are doing.