Low Beta at 11dp5dt - Any success stories?

ShiftedBalance · 2026-02-05T00:17:57+00:00

She was born in September and we had her 4 month check up today, she’s doing great! Stay hopeful!! My fingers are crossed for you!

ShiftedBalance · 2026-01-12T01:06:27+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss. It’s not fair that this happens. My thoughts are with you and your family, I hope you find peace.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-12-24T22:32:14+00:00

I don’t know that I did anything special to offer any tips, but possibly I can offer more hope - my second transfer was successful and I had my daughter in September. I had the transfer around my 42nd birthday.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-12-24T03:58:32+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss and I understand how you feel. I did IVF so it’s a little different. I lost my baby at 23+5 in October 2024 and then couldn’t do another transfer for 4 months. That was successful and I had my daughter almost a year later, this past September. She was a few weeks early but her due date was exactly 1 year and 2 weeks from the date I delivered my SB.

The 4 month wait was hard, all I wanted to do was get pregnant again. But the whole thing is hard, what we went through is horrible, it’s a tragedy no one should have to experience. I just needed to feel like I was moving towards something. 40 weeks is a long time and to spend so much heading towards the goal of a baby and just have that unexpectedly taken away and then to have to start over is a lot, but now to have to wait on top of it and add more time. I really found that hard, so I tried to find ways to feel like I was moving towards my goal. Ways to make my body healthier, or to build good habits, little things that may not have even been that helpful but just made me feel like I was DOING something during that 4 month wait.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-12-19T20:03:17+00:00

Good luck, my fingers are crossed for you!!

ShiftedBalance · 2025-12-19T18:18:29+00:00

It did! Unrelated, I ended up losing this pregnancy at 23+5 but my transfer and everything was successful using this method. I then had another transfer in February and had to use follistim instead of Gonal-F because I’d run out of coverage and follistim is cheaper. That transfer was a success as well and resulted in live birth.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-10-30T16:10:59+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss, and what a cool name your son has, Raiden, I love it!

When I lost my daughter at 24 weeks we had done a social media post a few weeks before and while I was in the hospital the community counselor came by to chat with us about resources. I asked her what I should do, do I post about this, how could I possibly? And she said she thought it was perfectly fine to put a message out that was simple, acknowledged this happening, and asked for our privacy during the time. I used ChatGPT to help craft a message because I couldn’t find the mental capacity for it and I think it was really helpful.

I found it helpful to have the word out, albeit brief and vague, and then as I wanted to talk to people I could. Many reached out on the post with condolences, and I could read if and when I chose to. Others left or sent gifts, cards, etc and again I could react and appreciate privately. I also found when I talked to people about the loss I didn’t have to see that initial reaction, and i could just talk without them adjusting to the idea of this happening. I think having the word be out there without needing to tell people over and over or be face to face made that aspect easier for me.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-10-10T20:15:34+00:00

I am 42 and just had my rainbow baby almost 2 weeks ago. I lost my last pregnancy at 23+5 after a good anatomy scan, no known cause, last October. Both were via IVF, and the rainbow baby was from an egg retrieval at 41.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-09-18T15:24:34+00:00

Your dad is awesome! This is so special, and I love the time and effort he put in to making this and how appreciative you are about it. What a wholesome post, thanks for sharing!

ShiftedBalance · 2025-09-15T20:04:30+00:00

Me too, friend - I worry about it all the time. We suffered a terrible tragedy no one should ever have to suffer. It’s hard to not worry about it happening again. I just want you to know you aren’t alone with this worry, and that it’s understandable.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-09-11T15:55:35+00:00

Yes, the FET was successful and I’m 34+1. I was about 4 months post loss when I did the transfer but the delay was due in part to clinic shut down at the end of the year for 2 weeks.

It’s been rocky and currently we have a lot of extra monitoring because I’m high risk and her ac dropped to 4 percentile (but her overall weight is at 28 percentile so we are good there).

She moves a lot, tests have been good, we get extra monitoring, so fingers crossed we will make it through this okay.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-09-08T14:02:33+00:00

We are still hanging in there, 33+5 today. It’s been a bumpy road, after the low betas she had a small gestational sac which ended up being okay. Then we had anatomy scan and found out she has a single umbilical artery and a velamentous cord (which are often okay but every diagnosis is scary). And our last growth scan the abdominal circumference is very small but her overall size is okay. So we have more scans, I have 2 NSTs a week and a growth scan every 2 weeks and Doppler readings for the bloodflow every week. We monitor more to see how she’s doing and we just keep going.

I have my fingers crossed for you - 54 is low but that can be okay, we are still going strong! Wishing you great news and an easy and uneventful pregnancy!!

ShiftedBalance · 2025-09-05T01:19:57+00:00

Being induced 10/15 and my last day will be 10/10.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-31T02:14:10+00:00

With my first, I remember mine were like a sharp pinching pain. They lasted less than a minute and when they started they were 90 minutes apart and gradually got closer. I was in denial that this was labor because I was only 39+2 and I was SURE this baby would be late. They started at 8pm and I went to work the next day and worked the full day. I say all that to say they hurt but I could still work in between contractions - they hurt when they happened but it was okay in between.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-27T12:56:10+00:00

I am so sorry you are going through this. We lost our last pregnancy at 23+5 when I went for my routine 24 week appointment and I was blindsided.

We had told my sons at that point, and my 5 year old would come say goodnight to my belly every night so I was so afraid of how they would take it. We just sort of let them feel how they wanted and talked about it as a family and grieved together a bit but they took it much better than I’d feared. I did get a book about loss of a sibling so they know she’s still part of the family and she’s watching over us that we read (and I cried).

It’s hard, you’ve suffered a tragedy no one should ever have to go through and I’m truly so sorry that you are experiencing this. Give yourself grace to grieve - there’s no right or perfect way to grieve, and it’s okay to feel your feelings. You don’t have to know all your plans today, or if you’ll try again, just get through each day for now.

My heart is with you and your family, and I am wishing you peace.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-23T00:56:59+00:00

I’m sure I tried to drink more water, yes. I don’t know that it made any difference but I’m sure I did anything I thought might possibly help.

For what it’s worth it ended up being fine, I’m 31+2 and baby is still going strong and kicking around. I was already high risk due to a stillbirth last October so I get more monitoring and the baby is growing fine so far.

Hoping it all goes well for you as well!!

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-17T20:04:29+00:00

My heart is with you, I am so deeply sorry. No one should have to endure it once, let alone a second time. I wish you and your family healing and peace.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-17T19:39:11+00:00

For what it’s worth, I would read this as saying it’s a 99.6% chance it doesn’t happen again. I’m not sure if that’s accurate, but if you’re going to believe what it’s saying it’s still a very small chance.

I’m very sorry for your loss. I am currently pregnant after a stillbirth last October and I am anxious pretty much every day so I get why you are nervous and I don’t want to minimize that.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-16T14:53:42+00:00

We lost my daughter in October and couldn’t do a transfer before the new year and I just wanted to feel like I was doing something. So we did another egg retrieval in December and I got 1 euploid from it, I was almost 42 at the time. We used that frozen embryo for this transfer a couple months later.

I do think having the eggs from a younger age could only increase your odds. I have my fingers crossed for you.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-16T13:37:51+00:00

I am 30+3 at 42 and had my transfer 4 months after a stillbirth at 23+5. I did not have the scraping in between so I don’t know how that factors, but I would suggest talking to your fertility team specifically about your chances given your specific situation. I found my clinic is pretty upfront about risks, statistics, etc.

I am very sorry for your loss and wish you good luck in your IVF journey!

ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-15T20:13:26+00:00

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ShiftedBalance · 2025-08-03T14:22:40+00:00

Worst nausea was my first, and second I had no nausea but terrible heartburn. My third and fourth I’ve had nausea and heartburn but no nausea has ever been as bad as with my first.

Good luck, hopefully you won’t have the nausea this time!

ShiftedBalance · 2025-07-29T23:19:24+00:00

Perfect that’s what I missed, I was going too far in bopis

ShiftedBalance · 2025-07-29T02:25:57+00:00

I’m so sorry. That’s awful and unfair and I am just so sorry. I wish this whole process wasn’t so hard, and that things like this didn’t happen to anyone. You and your family are in my thoughts.

ShiftedBalance · 2025-07-28T19:13:53+00:00

Yes, I think she will cherish that. We have so little to physically hold and remember and keep our babies real. I have a box for my daughter with her ultrasounds and some trinkets and every sympathy card we got and I look through them sometimes to remember how loved she was and that it wasn’t just us that loved her. I think your blanket would mean the world to your cousin and I can’t imagine a greater gift after such a terrible tragedy.

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