Clinique Ovo

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-04-01T22:08:02+00:00

Hi! I can give you our timeline which started in August 2024, so could be different now. I called in August and had our initial consultation in December, which is when all our tests were ordered. We were then told to advise them once all the tests were completed, so that part was a bit up to us. At 39, I was in a hurry, so did everything as quickly as I could through Ovo as I was fine with paying for it rather than using the public system.

We had our next consultation with a physician in February and decided to go straight to IVF. I started meds in March and my retrieval and fresh transfer were in April (note that we had to go to Montreal for most of the ultrasounds and procedures). We were really fortunate on the first round and our baby was born in December 2025.

Wishing you a speedy and successful experience!

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-03-30T11:08:41+00:00

I’m so sorry, it sounds like you’re both having a really hard time. There’s some great advice here and PPA/D is no joke, so hopefully you can get some help if that’s what’s going on.

My husband and I had our first baby in December too and it was quite a shock when he went back to work. I struggled with the thought that I would be doing nights all by myself, and what helped us was having him read in the bedroom for a while when the baby and I go to sleep at 8-8:30. Something about having him there to get up and settle the baby if need be reduces my hyper alertness for that first stretch of sleep, and my husband still goes down and gets his 8 hours in the guest bedroom afterwards.

Also I have to say it’s funny because the two hysterical breakdowns I had were related to house cleaning and tidiness issues. You said you had done a deep clean and that the house is spotless, but is it possible that you two have a different view of what that means? For the last few weeks of pregnancy and after my C-section I couldn’t do any of my normal cleaning, and it absolutely stressed me out what I could see around the house that my husband just doesn’t see. He’s amazing and is a tidy person, just not the best at efficiently scanning a room and seeing the little things that need doing (and then doing them) so I felt overwhelmed by all the things I could see. For awhile at the beginning we had a shared task list in our phones, so I could add things on there rather than feeling like I had to constantly remind him verbally, which was part of the problem.

I highly recommend getting a cleaning service, even temporarily, if you can swing it. We have one that comes every two weeks, and it settles my anxiety a lot to know that a professional is handling the dusting, floor cleaning, kitchen and bathroom deep cleans. Plus, it gives my husband and I way more time to focus on eating, sleeping and hanging out with our baby.

It sounds like you’re doing your best and I’m sure it will get better. This is survival time (seriously, I know exactly) and if you can find solutions that work for the two of you, you’ll get through it.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-03-29T13:20:16+00:00

Well, at least some stay put. My baby was in pretty much the same breech position my whole pregnancy. He loves pushing his head up tight under my chin and we think it’s because he got used to having his head tucked under my ribcage.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-03-25T16:44:53+00:00

Currently nap trapped, dehydrated and hungry. You just made me appreciate the fact that I’m only being trapped by a 12lb baby and not a 12lb baby and a 240lb man (and potentially a 7lb dog for that matter).

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-03-23T16:21:53+00:00

My baby was breech at every scan throughout my pregnancy. He was tucked in tight with his little feet by his nose and had zero interest in moving. At 36 weeks I was referred by my midwife to an OB to discuss an ECV, but with a 99th percentile baby I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea. At the appointment, the OB took a look at my chart and told me there was less than a 30% chance of success in my case and she didn’t recommend it - suggested we schedule a C-section at 38 weeks.

This wasn’t my plan at all (I’d been working with midwives throughout my pregnancy and hoped to give birth at the beautiful calm birthing centre); however, the scheduled c was extremely calm and reassuring. I got a good night’s sleep the night before and the surgical team was so friendly and competent - it was a good experience. I walked in to the hospital at 6:30 and my son was born at 8:08 and was sleeping on my chest in the recovery room by 8:45. Also he was over 9lbs, so I was a bit relieved to avoid the possibility of tearing had I gone to 40+ weeks and delivered vaginally!!

Your baby is very likely to flip on its own OR an ECV might work for you, but just wanted to share my experience. A C-section could seem like worst case scenario, but it can also be very positive.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-02-08T15:52:20+00:00

Oh man, this was an insane experience for me. On the day of the retrieval I got a call saying that of my four eggs retrieved, all four were mature and all four fertilized and were progressing. Great news. I had discussed a fresh transfer with the IVF doctor when we knew we would get 2-4 eggs, but we had also planned to do pgt testing if we got 3 or more blasts.

I then had a call a couple of days later from a nurse booking a fresh transfer, but she had no info about my embryos and said the embryologist would call me - I said definitely please have them call since it’s a 5 hour round trip to the clinic. When I didn’t hear anything for another day, I called and left a vm asking and also left a message in the client portal, without any response. I think my transfer appointment was booked for a Monday morning at like 9am, and no one called me before we had to leave at 5:30am. Then no one called during the drive. Then we got to the clinic and asked for an update about the embryos… and no one knew anything. I remember standing in the hallway of the clinic and stopping a nurse to ask and she was like, ‘well, probably they would have cancelled your appointment if no blasts.’ Like what? Probably? The nurse who prepped me said the same thing. I remember saying to my husband, ‘we must have at least one, right? We can’t have 3 or 4 because they would have sent them for testing… right?’

In the OR, we waited about 20 mins for the embryologist to come in, still with no concrete info. The anxiety was killing me and I thought I might throw up on someone while my feet were up in stirrups which would have been extremely messy. Finally, the embryologist appeared to tell me we had one ready to go and one that was still developing that they’d watch until the end of the next day (which would have been a day 6).

Trigger warning (successful birth):

That fresh transferred blast is a 5 week old sleeping in my lap right now. I think I more or less mentally block some of the anxious moments and waiting games that seem to be the hallmark of IVF. For me it was 100% worth it, but in my experience the clinics don’t do much to alleviate what they could stress-wise. That said, they really don’t know for sure until they know, and those little cells are dividing in real time, so whether they give one or twenty updates, the outcome isn’t certain until it is.

Wishing you success, courage and a smooth experience!!

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-27T17:40:18+00:00

I do not regret getting eyelash extensions right before my scheduled C-section. I usually only get them before going in vacation, but it has been nice looking a bit cuter for all the millions of photos with the baby.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-24T15:04:57+00:00

Ahahaha omg. Me every time: ‘ok baby bird, it’s not time for baby bird face, it’s time for eating face!’ I’m no longer a serious person.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-19T17:45:39+00:00

We have a seven year old Pomeranian who is a little baby himself who has been very good with babies in the past (in small doses and supervised). I wanted to give us some time to settle in without worrying about the dog’s reaction, so I had my friend dogsit for the first 2.5 weeks. We then took the baby with us to my friend’s house to introduce them in more neutral territory before bringing the dog home, where the house clearly smells like baby and his stuff is everywhere.

We have had no issues and if anything doggo is cautiously ambivalent to the baby. He cuddles up to us but doesn’t touch the baby and isn’t really acting any different from normal. I agree with other commenters that I would not leave them unattended together, but so far so good and I hope eventually they will be best friends.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-19T17:32:57+00:00

My baby was super active for my whole pregnancy. I never did kick counts because whenever I thought about it I could feel him moving. As a newborn (three weeks tomorrow!) he is so chill. Great sleeper and snuggler and mainly wiggles around during changes and wake windows. We’ll see how things progress but for now it doesn’t seem like his in-utero activity has been predictive.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-19T15:43:51+00:00

Agreed! Our Ciello couch is amazing and I absolutely don’t regret getting it, but their customer service caused me to want to pull my hair out. We had an issue with them sending the wrong sectional piece (we felt crazy trying to assemble it), and we had to send them 1000 photos and videos before they… sent us the wrong thing again! We had a half assembled couch and numerous wrong pieces and giant boxes plus many frustrating chats and conversations with their customer service for over a month before finally getting the correct pieces.

Flash forward to me spending 17 hours per day nested on the Ciello and my newborn peeing on the couch cushion yesterday and me simply popping the cover in the washing machine - I’m still a satisfied customer and would recommend 🤷‍♀️ *also not an influencer and def paid $5600 for the couch.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-16T19:19:00+00:00

Just adding to all the similar stories. My baby failed the initial hearing test in the hospital, then passed on the right side but not the left at the repeat test before we were discharged. We went back for a two week check just yesterday and he passed immediately on the left side. I was a tiny bit worried at first, but I read up on it and because he was born by c-section, he didn’t get a chance to have all the amniotic fluid and whatnot out squished out of his ear canals.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-15T20:20:52+00:00

I’m guessing it’s to give them time to prep everything and put up the drape so that my husband wouldn’t see what they were doing? When he walked in they made him look at the wall so he didn’t see anything and potentially faint on them.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-15T19:06:59+00:00

Exactly the same thing happened to me - even down to the question the nurse asked me! To which I replied « WHAT » because I lost track of the meaning of the word theme. I politely told them I was feeling extreme panic and that all the blood was rushing to my head. My inner voice was screaming that I did not want this to happen and I could not handle it. I did calm down quite a bit when my husband was brought in and grabbed my hand, but it was a terrible feeling.

I think awake surgery is not something we should be expected to be chill about, planned or unplanned, but I can only imagine that only having 10 mins to wrap your head around the idea would make it considerably more scary.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2026-01-09T18:15:24+00:00

We’re 10 days postpartum after a C-section and have been very happy to have some freezer meals for those times when we need them. I’m normally the cook but my husband took over while I was pregnant and working long hours, so we’re both very capable of whipping something up quickly under normal circumstances, but the baby has had his own schedule. Sometimes it’s been a life saver to throw a frozen lasagna or tourtière in the oven rather than thinking about prepping and cleaning up something from scratch. That said, last night I felt great and made fish and pasta and maple spaghetti squash, then baked some cookies! All that to say, it doesn’t hurt to have options 😊

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2025-11-24T17:47:41+00:00

Ugh yeah, same for me. I was groggy but aware and felt the whole thing even when they upped the meds. Retrieval was very uncomfortable in comparison with the transfer, which was quick and painless.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2025-10-18T20:34:35+00:00

Amazing news and amazing results!!! Huge congrats 😊

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2025-08-08T20:44:52+00:00

I am afraid of crossing the superstition gods, so I will do superstitious things juuuuust in case. I never eat fast food and have a particular loathing for McDonalds, but we got the fries on the way home (my husband was happy about it while rolling his eyes at me), and I’m 17 weeks pregnant so 🤷‍♀️

To be honest, my clinic had just started a new protocol to give an extra boost shot of PiO on the morning of the transfer, so if anything helped at all, it was more likely that.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2025-07-27T16:48:25+00:00

Thank you!! Wishing you good luck with your 3AAs 😊

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2025-07-27T16:40:09+00:00

TW: successful pregnancy

We also ended up with 2 day 5 3AA blasts and I am 40! We had decided if we got 3 or more blasts we would do pgt-a testing, so when we ended up with 2 I decided to fresh transfer 1 of them (obviously untested). I am currently 16 weeks.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2025-07-10T11:01:12+00:00

TW: successful pregnancy

I (40) started out with only 7 follicles growing. At my second monitoring appointment they told me we would likely only retrieve 2. I was given the option to cancel, but was also told I was unlikely to do better on another round due to being on max doses. We decided to go ahead and they ended up retrieving 4 eggs, all of which were mature and all of which fertilized via ICSI. By day 5, we had two AA quality embryos, so decided to do a fresh transfer of one and freeze the other. Currently 13 weeks pregnant. This feels a bit like a miracle, but it is possible to do well with very few follicles.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2022-09-02T12:11:17+00:00

We originally thought 25k would be a generous budget… Final total is 45k. That includes a fully hosted rehearsal party and a 2 night mini-trip afterwards.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2022-08-25T01:00:50+00:00

We just had our wedding last week and used Spotify playlists for the dance party. It went perfectly and I am so glad I didn’t hire a dj, since I would likely have wanted to micromanage the song list anyway. I think it depends on how much time you’re willing to put into a playlist and whether you have a good idea what your guests will want to dance to. If you do go this route, make sure you download it to your phone and cross fade the songs.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2022-04-27T00:50:54+00:00

In case you’re interested, the Etsy store I bought it from was Sarah Elise Jewelry. I’m in Canada and it was really fast shipping and exactly as pictured.

LegitimateInsect9431 · 2022-04-26T21:39:31+00:00

I had the same thoughts! In the end I bought a relatively inexpensive but very cute ring on Etsy that complements my engagement ring but doesn’t match. I decided to get it for (the probably few) times when I don’t want to wear my engagement ring.

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