BFP by IUI

Hi ladies, I would like to share my symptoms with you. I have been reading here for the passed while and found it all very helpful.

Yes thats right we tested on my birthday. Yay for birthday BFP! :)

My cycles are 30 days so we triggered on day 14. Had one 20mm follicle and 12mm lining.
All looked great. Did IUI on day 16. O'd on this day too.

1dpo - 6dpo felt nothing unusual.
7dpo - 10dpo had white discharge. felt like I had pee'd myself.
8dpo - continous Sore, heavy, itch breasts...oh wow so heavy!
14dpo....no period. Very tired. Very hungry.
waited 2 days to test...BFP!
Exhausted and hungry continous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck to everyone.

I wanted to share my symptoms as I think this board has been so helpful to me!
I had a 3 day transfer of 5 - 4 cell grade a embryos. I am 41 and hubby 38, unexplained infertility and endometriosis.

Day 1pt- gas, bloated headache
Day 2- same
Day 3- same
Day 4, 5 and 6 pt- cramping, dreams ,sore boobs
Day 7- same as above but dark aeroelas and slightly more erect nips.
Was preg but later lost baby after 8 weeks.

Also did 5 day transfer
I noticed a big difference between the symptoms of 3 day and 5 day transfers. The 5 day transfer I felt the cramping and pulling on the first 3 nights post transfer as well as fatigue and darker nips on 3 days past 5 days transfer.
I know that progesterone also gives u the symptoms of pregnancy but u think I can tell the difference by now! As soon as I take a supp or the oil injection, I get cramping and fever of 99.5 approx shortly after but notice the times when I do not take it the cramping feels more of burning and pulling.
Hope this helps. This turned into a chemical preg but am pleased that I did get preg.
On to the next....

Am on my 3rd ivf, 3 day post transfer similar embryos to previous, all good to excellent quality but not many cells more than 5.
Day 1, 2. Bloated, headache, gas
Day 3 today. Bloated, creamy mucus, slight cramping but not pulling like the other times so worried may be the progesterone and not preg this time.
I do know implantation doesn't begin until tomorrow for a 3 day transfer so fingers crossed.
Good luck to all. It is so hard going through this but I know in the end it is going to happen with time and patience and love.

OMG - I'm so excited. I know that this tww is just the killer and there is nothing to do but just WAIT!!!!!

I have two boys, 14 and 9.... We have not been on any birth control for over 15 years so we were wondering why we don't have any more kids. When we decided to really try again, I didn't want to wait a year of trying to we moved to doing fertility to speed up things since I'm turning 38 this month.... Here is what I did and felt?
I was on 150 Clomid on day 3-7
Went in for an US and they found 3 normal follicles. Size 17, 12, 12
2nd US, uh oh, there is 4 follicles now.... WOW.... Good chance they said. Size 21, 20, 15, 15
Trigger the shot the next day and 2 days later, when in for an IUI....
Day 1 - Cramping but low (figured my blood is killing off my husband sperm)
Day 2 - Cramping - False Positive (I wanted to see when the HCG shot was out of my system)
Day 3 - Cramping - just felt like something was going on..... False Positive
Day 4 - Cramping - Same feeling, my stomach started to bloat, feeling dizzy sometime and a head ache, runny nose, peeing like crazy false positive
Day 5 - Cramping - Same feeling as day before but I noticed when I wiped there was a little pink spot.... hmmm , peeing like crazy NEGATIVE TEST
Day 6 - Cramping - Dizzy and headache, running nose again, still peeing, BFN
Day 7 - Just cramping at night and my pants are right, I must be need to poop....lol.... Call my RE to see what I can take. I don't feel bad, just my stomach is bloated and it isn't going down. - BFN
Day 8 - Less cramping but I did go to the bathroom... That night, gassy and thinking, all this cramping is just me needing to go the bathroom.. BFN
Day 9 - Crying to my husband, thinking I'm not pregnant... I told him I don't feel pregnant and I'm just getting fat and this doesn't make sense. He said we will try again next month. I felt so different, I didn't have any cramps but I was still peeing and that's not normal.
Day 10 - 5:00am, BFP (on 2 HPT) and now I went in to do blood work.... So I should get a official blood tomorrow.

There is hope and I just couldn't believe that it happened on the first try.... Now I have to wait to have an ultrasound in 2 weeks.
I'm continuing to pray and hope all goes well.

Hello Ladies,
I came here nearly everyday for so long and was so grateful for the women who shared. We recieved our BFP on April 28th, but I waited until it was confirmed with a blood test before posting here. When I saw the lines, I didn't believe it and tested again to be sure, then I cried and thanked God. Oh, and told the hubby!
Our story: Hubby is fine, he started out with lower morphology but we were able to turn that around with the fertility life vitamin, no alcohol, and he stopped training for his triathlon. I, have PCOS, Endometriosis, recently had 5 polyps removed, and was anovulatory. Also have a tilted cervix. Before this round I lost 20 lbs. We did two separate 5day clomid doses (stair stepping) followed by a trigger shot and IUI. (two beautiful follies)
1-5 dpo: Nothing special and what symptoms I did have were clomid and trigger shot related. (swollen ovaries)
6-8 dpo: Slight breast tenderness, mild/occasional cramps, and tmi mild diarrhea
9-12 dpo: Extreme fatigue (going to sleep at 7 after having fallen aslepp in the middle of the afternoon), breast tenderness more severe, and mild cramping
13 dpo: Thick creamy cm with a pick tint, breasts, fatigue, and cramping still
14 dpo: Woke Up dizzy, other symptoms continued.
BFP!
Sticky dust to all of you.
I hope you get your BFP soon!

I always knew I wanted to share my story here b.c I too stalked these boards for any shred of hope I would was pregnant. We tried for almost 2 years, for a year of that I was doing different fertility things. I had an hsg test, charted my BBT, 7 cycles of clomid, 2 cycles off due to cysts, then 2 cycles of Framara with IUIs then 2 cycles off due to cysts then 2 cycles of Follistim with IUIs. I actually began to wonder if I really wanted this or at this point if I just wanted to attain the seemingly impossible. I was up so many nights reading this website and the different stories and posts. Waking up at 4 am to POAS, thinking every little air bubble was a cramp that meant I might be prego. On the first Follistim cycle I had 4 huge follicles and my husband had great count and motility. I thought for sure that had to work but of course it did not. I was at my wits end. We had already been interviewing new Drs. for a third opinion and thinking about IVF. (Which I really did not want to do.) We suffered from unexplained infertility in our early 30s. I have a theory about that. Either something is def wrong with one of you and no one had figured out what it is yet or you will eventually become prego without having to do IVF but most of us just don't have the patience to wait and see. SO I had my 4 big follies and got my iui and spent the next 24 hours on the couch (my idea not a requirement). BFN.... The 2nd follistim cycle I only had one big follie. I had my IUI on a friday and I had company coming so instead of being able to rest like I wanted to had to clean my whole house and go food shopping. I thought well if last month didn't work with FOUR then this month was out too. Cut to 9 days later my husband was going on business for 5 days. He was coming back the day my period was due and I told him I would not test until it was actually late (I had a POAS addiction) But that night around 7 PM I was on my laptop and had a passing thought...'my boobs are still sore...must be the hcg trigger shot....wait that was 11 days ago that can't be it...I have ONE test left I'll just take it!' SO I went to the bathroom and peed on that last pink First Response in the box. This must have been the 100th test I took and why was I even bothering it was evening at only 9 dpo. Any good POAS addicted knows you pee in the AM. But I was bored and did it anyway. That was a year ago today. 4/29/12. I write this with my nearly 4 month old little boy sleeping next to me. A little pink line came up, it was faded but clear. Not like all those that I tried to pretend might be there for the last 20 months. A real line. I thought the test was broken but could not help the giddiness inside. So I did not call my husband I just waited and first thing the next morning I went straight to Rite Aid and bought NINE more test. 3 , 3 packs of 3 different brands. I peed on ALL of them through out the day. They were all BFP. I called my husband. I don't remember what I said but he too did not believe it. So I send him a photo of a couple sticks. (I didn't want him to know I had taken TEN!) I went a got more tests. I peed on 2 a day for a few more days watching the line get darker. Then I went for the mother test the digi that actually says PREGNANT and thats what I got. I was over the moon. At the 2 week mark I got blood work and confirmed everything. Now all that stuff is a distant memory. IF I can impart any wisdom its to try to relax. WHen your time comes it will come and it will be worth all the wait and work. I had no noticeable symptoms, although I did remember being woken up by bad cramps around 5 DPO which I assume was implantation looking back but no spotting and at the time I didn't even think twice about it. I didn't start with the other symptoms like the nausea and the exhaustion until about 6 weeks along.

I still am in shock 4 days later. I got my BFP on Saturday. DH and I had been trying for 9 months and this past cycle was my first IUI. DH's SA was normal and all my tests came back normal. The only thing that wasn't working correctly was my CM. I hardly had any EWCM and the stuff I did have wasn't very stretchy. DH's little guys just needed a little help to get past my cervix. At first I thought I had missed my window because we didn't BD during my fertile window and the IUI took place the day after O. I got a +OPK Friday morning and ended up Oing that same night. IUI was Saturday morning. Needless to say, we caught the egg! I had no symptoms except implant spotting and still no symptoms.

1-7DPO (1-6DPIUI): No symptoms

8-10DPO (7-9DPIUI): Mild cramping which is unusual for me, but I have had this before and my usual PMS symptoms (tender bbs, acne, moody). Definitely thought I was out. On the night of 10DPO I had a substantial pain on my left side that felt like ovulation pain. It only lasted a minute. I also couldn't stand the feeling of my pants on my abdomen the entire day. I felt so bloated, which I never get as a PMS symptom.

11DPO (10DPIUI): Light brown spotting at 6am on toilet paper. Three wipes and it was gone for the rest of the day. I was worried that this meant my LP was down to 10 days and AF would arrive shortly. I always spot minutes to hours before AF. My usual PMS symptoms.

12DPO (11DPIUI): No more spotting. Cramping subsided. My usual PMS symptoms.

13DPO (12DPIUI): More cramping. My usual PMS symptoms.

14DPO (13DPIUI): AF due. No cramping. My usual PMS symptoms.

15DPO (14DPIUI): Cramping and BFP!

Those of you symptom checking, here's a tip: no pregnancy symptoms will appear until after implantation (6-12DPO). Take that first week to relax and try not to think about every little thing that's going on with your body.

I had conceived with my first unmedicated iui when I was 29. Now I'm 35. We did an unmedicated iui last month, and nothing. This time around I took Clomid days 3-7 of my period, and did an iui w/ 5 follicles on April 7th. I was reassured since I'm older my risk of multiples is very low, we will see :)

Started pregnyl days 3-6-9 after iui, and began HPT's day 12. Was getting faint + because of the pregnyl, but the night of 13dpiui got a really DARK +! So excited but afraid to believe it... Kept doing tests, they stayed dark, even got darker and did a digital FRER which came back "yes". Period never came when it was supposed to, so today I'm doing a beta, but I KNOW I'm pregnant. My breasts have gotten much bigger already, and my abdomen is bloated out. I swear I already look 2 months.....

Supplements I take: COQ10, DHEA, Vitamin D, Inositol, & Prenatals...took Bromelain (pineapple extract) 500mg day of iui and for the next 5 days (on an empty stomach).

I pretty much had no symptoms until a few days after I got the first really dark + so don't worry if you don't "feel" pregnant.... maybe you are! Good luck to all!!!

Wow, I can't believe I am so fortunate to write this post! This is my first BFP!! It's been 9 months of trying with the last cycle being an IUI. I thought I was out the very first day. I got a positive OPK, but ended up Oing that night. My IUI was the next day. I thought I had missed my window because usually IUIs are before O and DH and I didn't BD within 3 days of Oing. So, you can get your BFP post O IUI!! I had NO SYMPTOMS aside from implantation spotting and cramping. That is when I kind of knew something was up.

1-7DPO (1-6DPIUI): No symptoms

8-10DPO (7-9DPIUI): Mild cramping which is unusual for me, but I have had this before and my usual PMS symptoms (tender bbs, acne, moody). Definitely thought I was out. On the night of 10DPO I had a substantial pain on my left side that felt like ovulation pain. It only lasted a minute. I also couldn't stand the feeling of my pants on my abdomen the entire day. I felt so bloated, which I never get as a PMS symptom.

11DPO (10DPIUI): Light brown spotting at 6am on toilet paper. Three wipes and it was gone for the rest of the day. I was worried that this meant my LP was down to 10 days and AF would arrive shortly. I always spot minutes to hours before AF. My usual PMS symptoms.

12DPO (11DPIUI): No more spotting. Cramping subsided. My usual PMS symptoms.

13DPO (12DPIUI): More cramping. My usual PMS symptoms. Heartburn (usually an O symptom).

14DPO (13DPIUI): AF due. No cramping. My usual PMS symptoms. Heartburn.

15DPO (14DPIUI): Heartburn. BFP!!!

Those of you symptom checking, here's a tip: no pregnancy symptoms will appear until after implantation (6-12DPO). Take that first week to relax and try not to think about every little thing that's going on with your body.

I'm so glad I decided to go to an RE after 8 months of trying. I got all clear tests, which put my mind at ease. The one issue I was having was I never had good EWCM. I believe that was my problem and DHs guys were not getting to the right place.

It has been a long journey for me so I thought I would share with all of you my symptoms.

Me and DH did an at home IUI (yes that is correct, we did our own IUI) with frozen donor sperm at 24 hours after a positive OPK. I got my positive OPK on CD17.

1-9 DPO Nothing
10 DPO Strong pinching/cramping on right side
11-14 DPO DH is the most annoying man alive, jalapeños sound so good I ate an entire jar, can't seem to make it past 4 am without needing to pee, persistent headache and bloating, lots of gas.

I didn't test until 14 DPO. The only symptom I noticed until I realized I was pregnant was that I could not stand DH.

DH and I have been trying for 9 years, but were not gangbusters about it until last year. We had decided to let things happen as they would, and we made peace at one point with not being parents if it didn't happen. Well one day we woke up and realized we were getting older and running out of time and we both realized this was much more important to us than we thought. It would be really painful to never have children.

So we finally got tested to diagnose the problem and it turned out we had male factor - Low count, NO motility, and low morphology. There was no problem that the UR could find--no vericocele, his testosterone was normal, there was just no reason for his low numbers so there was nothing they could do to improve them. We tried supplements which did help his morphology--went from 9% to 30%, but the number stayed the same (3 million) and they still weren't swimming. No swimmers = no babies and we knew we either had to accept that or figure out another way. The decision to use a donor was not as difficult for us to come to as it would be for other couples (we had discussed it for a while, knowing that it might come down to that) and we started the process as soon as we got the second semen analysis results back showing no swimmers.

After the IUI with donor sperm, DH and I prayed together and sang hymns during the ten minutes I was to rest before getting dressed. It was a magical time! However, after 9 years of infertility, it was hard to believe that this would work. Here are my symptoms...

CD14: IUI at 9:30 am, ovulation at 8 PM based on the strong ovulation pain I felt at that time. I got a killer backache along with ovulation, which has never happened before.
1 dpo: Some leftover cramping from the IUI/ovulation
2-4 dpo: Nada
5 dpo: Dreamt about giving birth, and that I was breastfeeding my sister (who is 30 years old). EW! WTH?!
6-7 dpo: Boobs bigger (usual), nipples swollen/pointy (not usual). These were the only days I really felt I was pregnant. Woke up one morning with a nose bleed-very unusual.
8 dpo: Felt cramps in the evening while at church. They continued off and on for several hours. I now believe this was implantation!
9 dpo: A small glob of ewcm that was white came off on tp when I wiped--once in the morning, and once in the evening. This was my biggest reason for suspecting I might be pregnant, as I had never had anything but sticky CM this late in my TWW. I also had a killer backache! I was adjusting myself all day at work (I sit while working) and just couldn't get comfortable.
10 dpo: Tons of gas in the morning—it was a fart storm up in our bedroom. LOL! CM was very very slightly tinted brown all day. (I now believe this was caused by implantation bleeding.)
11 dpo: Lots of gas in the morning. Backache returns, but only for half the day and not as bad.
12 dpo: Gassy in the morning, but not as bad as previous days. Tested with FMU and got a faint BFP! Didn't really trust it, though. Brown tint to CM returns, a little darker this time, and I'm scared that AF is about to arrive. (I now know this was caused by implantation bleeding.)
13 dpo: Tested with FRER and a digital test at the same time (peed in a cup and dipped them at the same time-lol). The line with the FRER was darker, and the digital came up pregnant. Wow, it's really my BFP!!
14 dpo: Couldn't sleep but a few hours. Breasts swollen and I can't sleep on my stomach b/c they hurt.
15 dpo: Swollen boobs, a tiny bit of heartburn while eating meals.
16 dpo: Got BETA test, HcG is 308. Whoop! Definitely pregnant!
18 dpo: BETA now reads 634. This is for real!

I'm now 24 dpo and go in tomorrow to get my HCG checked again to make sure it's still on the rise. I feel so wonderful, and not pregnant at all. No nausea, no fatigue, no sore boobs. It's as if my body has been waiting for this so long, it is just so happy to finally be growing a baby that it's not going to give me any trouble! Well, we'll see how long it lasts. :)

Praise God for this answer to our prayer! We are just shocked to finally be pregnant after all this time, and shocked it worked on the very first IUI! Praise the Lord!