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[quote=Anonymous]A few thoughts:

1. As someone who went through IVF, I think you should take whatever control and decision making back that you can/want to. Infertility takes so much from us that if you want to make the choice to try to plan the birthday, then do it. It's harmless and if it helps you emotionally, all the better.
2. Unless you have some emergent health issue, it truly doesn't matter if you transfer now or three months from now. Your embryos are going to be the same quality and your uterus isn't going to shrivel up over a few months.
3. My kids (one IVF baby) have winter birthdays and that's perfect for school cut offs. Slightly older for the grade, but not the oldest or youngest in the class. Some to most kids do fine as the youngest in the grade, but some do struggle. I was the youngest and it was fine and successful by all measures, but can see my relative immaturity with hindsight and it definitely made things harder than they had to be all through school and college. But if you'd hold an August back anyways, does it matter on what side of the cut off they're born?
4. See 1. above, but none of this is a guarantee. You could push the transfer a month and not have it stick anyways. Or end up with an early baby born in August or earlier. So try to time it if you want, but don't be surprised or disappointed if it doesn't work out that way.

Either way, good luck to you![/quote]

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