bed rest after FET?
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Anonymous
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How active were you after your transfer? I read some clinics tell women to have some bed rest for a couple of days after the embryo transfer while others tell you to go about your normal day to day like walking, commuting to work, exercise and shopping etc? I’m also trying to avoid bending and lifting heavy boxes where possible
Can you share what’s worked for you? |
Anonymous
| I’ve had success and failures doing the exact same thing every time (limited movement, resting mostly in bed for the first 24 hours then slowly increasing more. No lifting other kids, no serious exercising til beta) |
Anonymous
| I took it easy after FET but not bed rest. One key thing is to laugh a lot. There have been some studies that show laughing helps implantation. My husband told me lots of jokes and we watched funny movies. |
Anonymous
Haha. Source? |
Anonymous
| I took it easy the rest of the day and did not do any overly strenuous exercises at the gym at all for the first trimester; I kept up my normal commute with walking to/from metro but that was it, nothing extra and stopped lifting heavy weights the days I did go to the gym or working out to the point of exhaustion. |
Anonymous
| thank you - did you also climb lots of stairs? that is giving me a lot of anxiety right now in terms of risk of dislodging the embryo |
Anonymous
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I did zero bed rest- ran after my toddler, lifted him, and carried about business. It worked.
The FET that I stayed on strict bedrest, I got a BFN. |
Anonymous
| I only have 1 set of stairs at home and I was fine ; we did walk a lot after the transfer though because we did it abroad but when I got back I scaled back on my workouts pretty much for the first trimester. |
Anonymous
‘Dislodging’ is not a thing. Also, where/what clinic is saying bed rest for days??? There is absolutely no data to support that. |
Anonymous
NP - agree that’s dislodging an embryo is not a thing but CCRM recommends 48 hours of bed rest. https://www.ccrmivf.com/colorado/traveling-to-colorado/ |
Anonymous
Interesting! I wonder where they got data to support that. |
Anonymous
My clinic (Cornell) says the opposite - NO bed rest. They did say it was based on some recent studies. |
Anonymous
| I took it somewhat easy day of, but then went back to life as normal - which included very high impact workouts. RE had recommended rest, but I think circulation is best and sitting around is just as bad for implantation as it is for your health generally. Only thing to avoid exercise-wise (and not sure it would apply pre-implantation or with respect to implantation), is raising your body temp significantly - think hot yoga or other extreme workout. |
Anonymous
| I took it easy but definitely not bed rest, and had two successful FETs. My clinic recommended against bed rest. For my first I rested more because i didn’t have a toddler, but I still took dogs for a walk, made dinner, and used the stairs as needed (I did take the day off from work). With the second I got a babysitter for a few hours in the afternoon so I wouldn’t have to lift my toddler so much (but I still did that a little bit) and I so that I could nap. Defijitlwh walked the stairs a lot, we have three floors. |
Anonymous
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21211796/ |