How soon after birth can you do an IVF egg retrieval?

[Anonymous]

I can’t stop stressing about this - we’re dealing with both PCOS & MFI, we did 6 IUIs bc our insurance required it but were pretty resigned to IVF...then of course the 6th time (w/injectables) worked. I’m thrilled & grateful of course, but also stressed...I wish we had just done IVF so we’d saved some embryos before we get any older / our numbers get any worse. We’d like a few children - I know I can’t do anything about it right now but I think having the information would help me relax. How soon after having a baby can you do an egg retrieval?

Thank you

[Anonymous]

I don't have an answer to your specific question. However, with my first, our 4th IUI attempt with injectables worked. When we were ready for our second, we started right away at what worked for #1 and I got pregnant on the first try. So you don't have to start at the ground level for your second child.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know this for sure, but I’d guess you can’t be lactating/breastfeeding at most clinics. So in your shoes I’d want to give myself 6 months or so? If you don’t care about lactating - maybe 4 months?

[Anonymous]

I think you need to not be breast feeding and probably need to recover your period, so I’d say probably on average 6 months. They might want you to wait a bit longer to transfer though, especially if you have a c-section.

[Anonymous]

Depending on how old you are, I would wean at six months and start IVF at 8 months. FWIW we needed IUI to get pregnant with our first (MFM) and had an oops second, pregnant at 7 months pp.

But I wouldn't waste any time and IGNORE anyone who gives you shit for trying again quickly. Your body, your choice.

[Anonymous]

You need to have period back and hormone levels normalized, which is tied to the length of time you breastfeed.

https://www.olivefertility.com/blog/breastfeeding-and-ivf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depending on how old you are, I would wean at six months and start IVF at 8 months. FWIW we needed IUI to get pregnant with our first (MFM) and had an oops second, pregnant at 7 months pp.

But I wouldn't waste any time and IGNORE anyone who gives you shit for trying again quickly. Your body, your choice.

Thank you for saying this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to have period back and hormone levels normalized, which is tied to the length of time you breastfeed.

https://www.olivefertility.com/blog/breastfeeding-and-ivf

Interesting - do you know how this is handled if i’m anovulatory (and don’t get periods on my own?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to have period back and hormone levels normalized, which is tied to the length of time you breastfeed.

https://www.olivefertility.com/blog/breastfeeding-and-ivf

Interesting - do you know how this is handled if i’m anovulatory (and don’t get periods on my own?)

NP, but pregnancy can do weird things to your body. I was anovulatory prior to my first DD’s birth (conceived via IVF/FET). Once I weaned her, I got my cycles back...ovulation and all..at a relatively consistent rate of every30-35 days. My only issue was PCOS. I hadn’t ovulated on my own pre-pregnancy in at least 8 years. My RE and OBGYN both stated that it wasn’t all that unusual for pregnancy to do some sort of a reboot like that, particularly in some dealing with PCOS.
Not telling you to count on that happening, but don’t be surprised if it does. My clinic (SGF) would not let me pursue any further treatment (medicated IUI or IVF) until DD had been fully weaned. That’s pretty much standard.

[Anonymous]

Take a little comfort in the fact that if IUI worked you can expect a reasonably good response from IVF. If you have conceived before it ups your odds

Do yourself a favor and take these six months to get yourself into reasonably good shape and lower your BMI (assuming you're not a thin PCOS) because that will help move the odds in your favor too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to have period back and hormone levels normalized, which is tied to the length of time you breastfeed.

https://www.olivefertility.com/blog/breastfeeding-and-ivf

Interesting - do you know how this is handled if i’m anovulatory (and don’t get periods on my own?)

NP, but pregnancy can do weird things to your body. I was anovulatory prior to my first DD’s birth (conceived via IVF/FET). Once I weaned her, I got my cycles back...ovulation and all..at a relatively consistent rate of every30-35 days. My only issue was PCOS. I hadn’t ovulated on my own pre-pregnancy in at least 8 years. My RE and OBGYN both stated that it wasn’t all that unusual for pregnancy to do some sort of a reboot like that, particularly in some dealing with PCOS.
Not telling you to count on that happening, but don’t be surprised if it does. My clinic (SGF) would not let me pursue any further treatment (medicated IUI or IVF) until DD had been fully weaned. That’s pretty much standard.

+1 to all of this. Was also anovulatory for years and giving birth to 1st DS brought everything back and relatively normal.

And yes, SGF said it had to be a few weeks after finishing nursing before I could cycle if I chose to.

[Anonymous]

I think it's definitely a thing that PCOS can respond to you being pregnant to make it easier to conceive on your own after. I have 3 friends in a moms support group who did IVF due to PCOS, each had a set of IVF twins, and then conceived later on their own (all were not trying, but just assumed they couldn't conceive on their own). One woman had a 3rd boy born when her twin boys were 11 months old. The other two had a 3rd child when their oldest were 3-4 yrs old.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone for responding. I do love hearing stories about pregnancy ‘resetting’ fertility - as we’re dealing with some male factor issues as well I don’t feel like I can bank on that being the case but it would be really really nice!

[Anonymous]

Dude. You haven't even given birth yet! You have no idea how hard parenthood is. Don't push yourself. Plenty if people dream of big families then realize that's not a great idea after 1 child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dude. You haven't even given birth yet! You have no idea how hard parenthood is. Don't push yourself. Plenty if people dream of big families then realize that's not a great idea after 1 child.

NP- please stuff it