List of Partners vendors. Both IVF treatment and the two-week wait afterward are stressful. You may be hyper-aware of everything going on in your body, worrying about every cramp or odd twinge you feel. You're also likely to have many questions. Are cramps after an embryo transfer a good sign or a bad sign? What about spotting? Are there IVF early pregnancy symptoms to know about?
We've got answers to these common questions. Cramping can strike fear in the hearts of some IVFers and hope in others. Fear, because they worry this is a sign their period is coming or that maybe the cycle has failed. Hope, because maybe cramps are a sign of implantation and maybe they're pregnant. Here's the good and bad news: mild cramping and pelvic discomfort are very common.
Cramping during IVF shouldn't be seen as a sign of your coming period nor as a possible sign of pregnancy. The medications and procedures of IVF make quite an impact on your reproductive organs. If you get pregnant, the pelvic discomfort may go on for a few more weeks. Also, the egg retrieval procedure and the later embryo transfer can cause slight cramping in the days immediately after.
If the cramping is especially severe, accompanied by heavy bleeding or feelings of nausea, contact your doctor right away. These may be signs of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome OHSS or ovarian torsion. These conditions require immediate medical attention. Light spotting is relatively common. According to available research, it occurs in 7 to 42 percent of IVF cycles.
You may experience light spotting after egg retrieval, after embryo transfer, or later in your luteal phase. While you should report any unusual bleeding to your doctor, spotting alone is not necessarily a good or bad sign. Spotting that occurs halfway through the two-week wait is sometimes attributed to what's known as implantation spotting. Implantation spotting is said to be caused by an embryo implanting itself into the uterine wall.
Another possible cause for spotting is progesterone supplementation via vaginal suppositories. Vaginal progesterone suppositories can cause the cervix to be extra sensitive. If you have sexual intercourse, you may experience light spotting, but this is nothing to worry about. If you're bleeding heavily, or if you're experiencing pain or severe cramps, contact your doctor right away. Common practice has been to ask couples to abstain from sexual intercourse during part or all of an IVF treatment cycle.
Some doctors are concerned that sex may lead to infection or interfere with embryo implantation. However, other doctors think it's fine and even recommend sex after IVF.
As always, consult with your doctor if you're unsure if you should engage in sexual intercourse. A study in Australia decided to look at whether sexual intercourse is harmful to the IVF process. Not only did they find that sexual intercourse wasn't harmful, they found that couples who had sex around the time of embryo transfer had higher viability rates at 6 to 8 weeks post transfer.
The study showed that semen seems to play a positive role in embryo implantation and development. Prescribing bed rest to women after embryo transfer was once common practice. Bed rest suggestions ranged from lying down for just 10 minutes post transfer to five days of convalescing. Despite how common the practice was, research has found no benefit to bed rest during the two-week wait.
A number of studies found possible negative effects of bed rest. The women who got up right away after embryo transfer had higher pregnancy rates and lower miscarriage rates. If your doctor has prescribed bed rest, discuss whether he or she really believes this is necessary.
The blood flow can range from light pink to dark brown and everything from light spotting to menstrual like flow. The first thing to realize is that many, many women experience bleeding in pregnancy and continue to have a perfectly health pregnancy.
Many women assume that the appearance of blood means an inevitable miscarriage is looming. Contrary to that misconception, there are several reasons a woman might experience bleeding during pregnancy, and not all of them are bad. Common causes for bleeding in pregnancy include:.
Call or Email your case specialist and nurse representative right away. The most important thing to do is to stay calm and follow medical directions closely. Click here to contact us and learn more about Growing Generations. Kim Bergman, PhD, a licensed psychologist of 26 years, has specialized in the area of gay and lesbian parenting, parenting by choice and third party assisted reproduction for over two decades.
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If a patient does not already have an obstetrician, we can provide appropriate referrals to any of the excellent obstetricians in our referral network.
We can also assist in obtaining further information about pre-natal genetic screening and testing. It is very, very common to experience minor spotting, bleeding and even mild cramping within the first trimester of pregnancy. This does not mean that a woman will lose the pregnancy. Mild spotting, bleeding or cramping may be due to the process of the placenta opening small maternal blood vessels in the uterus, which it must do for the placenta and fetus to survive and grow.
The following symptoms may be cause for concern. Please contact our clinic or obstetrician if any of the following occurs:. A negative pregnancy test can be a heartbreaking experience that every woman and couple may approach differently. As soon as our patient is ready, we encourage them to schedule a follow-up visit with their doctor at the clinic so we can review their cycle and make plans for the future. This follow-up visit is very important to all of us.
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