Once you have received your fertility treatment, you will have to wait at least two weeks before the clinic will carry out the test but if you are impatient, home tests are reasonably accurate and readily available. You would be wise to bear in mind that there’s always a possibility of a test indicating a false positive result if it is done too early.
There are however, other signs of pregnancy that you will notice, for example: sudden mood swings, sensitive breasts and the desire to use the toilet more often, sickness, missing your menstrual cycle, tiredness and greater sense of smell and taste.
Normally the fertility clinic will want to stay in touch regularly with you to enable them to carry out checks to find out if your baby’s growth is healthy. Do not be surprised tough as some clinics do not provide an aftercare service so alternate measures during pregnancy will have to be made.
When you become pregnant bring strange feelings especially if you have been trying for a some time so it may take a period to adapt to the fact you’re having a baby. Don’t be to concerned if you feel this as, many expectant mothers have them when they learn they are going to have a baby and it affects those that have had a normal pregnancy equally with those who have used a fertility clinic.
There should not be any real physical difference between an individual who has become pregnant normally to someone who has received fertility treatment, except they may find it harder emotionally. At times however, it may be necessary to have extra scans at the hospital. Possible reasons for this might be because they have had past problems before like miscarriages, multiple birth, and stillbirths or, owing to their general health. The pregnant womans age is also a factor especially when the mum is more mature because as your age increases the more likely it is that troubles will happen.
An interesting fact is that there are in excess of a million babies globally that have been delivered using fertility treatment such as In Vitro Fertilization for example and there is no reason why they shouldn’t be healthy children. However, all medical treatments carry some risks and there isn’t a way of ruling out the slight chance of there being a problem, regardless of how the baby was conceived, although most problems are relatively minor. Women everywhere should try to revel in their preganancy as much as you are able and relax even though that might not be easy.
Unfortunately the amount of miscarriages after employing IVF is higher those for normal conception. The two causes for this are well documented: the first being that the majority of women that get fertility treatment have a pregnancy test early into the pregnancy. There is also the possiblility that a woman who conceives naturally may receive what she believes is a late menstrual period when in fact an embryo has been produced, but failed to implant. Then of course the risk of spontaneous abortion goes up with age because women who get fertility treatment are, more often than not, more mature than those who conceive normally. This subject always raises many questions but they would be best dealt with by your own fertility clinic gynecologist.