IVF due date (news of IVF success in post)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 7weeks along but at Washington Radiology, with the given transfer date entered in their system, they calculated that I'm at 6weeks.

It is confusing.

why did you give them the transfer date? I highly doubt that they will know what to do with that. did you tell them 3dt vs. 5dt?

yes but i did not see that they have an option in their system for 3dt vs. 5dt or fresh vs. frozen. i repeat myself a lot when i'm there because my doctor is long distance. it'll be more of a concern when i'm at the OB and they get the date wrong.

[Anonymous]

Just subtract 14 days from your retrieval date and memorize that date and say that's your "LMP" date! Docs, nurses, u/s techs etc are always asking this throughout your pregnancy, just get yourself your LMP date and use that!

You can verify by googling IVF due date calculator and using both methods to calculate your due date to verify you have, in fact, come up with the right LMP date...

[Anonymous]

PP here, yes, don't let your practitioners get your date wrong. It's only 4 days (or whatever) but it might influence, for example, how your baby is measuring on an u/s, the dates you would need to get certain genetic testing done, and a possible induction, etc. just keep it simple. OB nurses etc dont necessarily know much about 3dt vs 5dt and retrieval date=conception date. They just basically need to know what date was 14 days before your egg was fertilized to use their little wheel.

[Anonymous]

your OB should go by the EDD date the RE gave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, providing the LMP by subtracting 14d from my retrieval date is probably the right thing to do...but it just frustrates me how clueless everyone is about calculating IVF due dates. It's really pretty straightforward...especially since ER date is the same as conception date, which is a reasonably standard way to calculate due date. I guess it's related to the ridiculousness of calculating due dates by assuming every woman ovulates on day 14 during their regular cycle.

After ART (five cycles of IVF), I feel like I know so much about my fertility...most of which isn't all that hard to understand. I'm just astonished at how clueless regular OB practices are about pretty basic stuff about women's reproductive systems...you don't need to know much about ART to understand that whether it happend in a lab or in your body, the day sperm joins the egg is the conception date. I think my frustration is that after finding a great and knowledgable RE, I really don't feel like I can find an OB practice where I trust the doctors to really understand what they're doing.

I undestand what you're saying. I think (hope?) the OBs get it. But a lot of the staff are just office techs, front desk staff scheduling you, etc. They don't get it and why would they. The vast majority of patients in an OB practice get there the old-fashioned way.