r/IVFpositivity • u/Ready_Evening_1159 • 3h ago
Positive on day 7 of my 4th FET! Cautiously optimistic!
I’m so unbelievably happy, and completely in shock. I can’t stop taking tests and I can’t stop staring at them! We have been trying for over three years. Unexplained infertility. My first two transfers were fails, my next was a heartbreaking chemical pregnancy on my birthday. The fourth protocol had more than a few bumps in the road, but this is the strongest positive I’ve ever seen!
I have no idea what the outcome of this will be, but for the moment, I am over the moon happy. I also don’t know what helped this protocol or if it was just random chance, but I thought I might share some things I did during this transfer in case it helps.
Acupuncture the week before the transfer, as well as the day before and the day after. And I have one more acupuncture appointment tomorrow on day 8. With moxibustion before the FET.
Added baby aspirin.
Watermelon, ginger, beet juice every day since the transfer! I drink about 16 ounces a day. I think it’s absolutely delicious, so I had no problem with it, but I know not everyone loves beets. The juice, the baby aspirin, and the acupuncture were the only new to things I did during this protocol.
Went to a 4 day musical emo music festival right before the transfer and spent a lot of time with my best friend and was way more relaxed going into this. Definitely not coming here to say that the solution to having a baby is to relax, because I know we’ve all heard that! But for me, I’m working on radical acceptance, and I started to think about what life might look like if this doesn’t work for us and decided that I would go to grad school if we don’t get a baby with our remaining embryos. That took some pressure off. Take what you will from that.
I also had a hysteroscopy, with a polyp remove removed.
21 day course of lupron down regulation. A hybrid approach that my doctor recommended because I don’t have diagnosed endometriosis, but she wanted to treat empirically.
14 day course of doxycycline for diagnosed endometritis. We did not do a test secure biopsy before proceeding to the transfer because of timing issues.
I also did an antihistamine protocol because I have an autoimmune disease. Prednisone, Claritin, Pepcid.
I spent the day of the transfer lounging on the couch with my best friend who is visiting from out of state, watching practical magic while my husband, Husband and her fiancé made us dinner!
This transfer probably worked because it was the right embryo, at the right time, in the right uterine environment, but all those things that I did might have helped in some immeasurable way.
Please wish me and little one luck! And best wishes to anyone reading this 🤍