Not sure if this is correct group to post this but, has anyone had any issues with fertility, ovulation, menstrual cycles and or hormones after having a successful birth following IVF pregnancy?

I’m having some issues with my body. Started with a feeling that something didn’t feel right, cramping/discomfort when not on period, minor irritation, unable to comfortably have sex or use tampons things like that. Have had blood tests and drs said all ok. Also had an ultrasounds including internal, showed some large follicles suspected pcos but nothing has been said further about that. I believe as I didn’t have many other symptoms for pcos/blood tests ok. I pushed for more info because these things don’t come from no where, must be some underlining issue. So they’ve looked back at results saying slightly concerned that I’m not ovulating. Since then the original minor symptoms have gone apart from occasional cramping/discomfort at random times in cycle, that aren’t normal for me, and my period is more irregular and getting later each month.

My daughter is 19 months old and she was conceived following 1 round of IVF. Everything went as smoothly as it could and we had to have IVF/ICSI because my partner had a vasectomy. Basically I luckily had no issues with fertility prior to this. I was an absolute mess with the IVF process and medication but my pregnancy was amazing. My waters broke at 35 weeks and my daughter was born healthy via c-section at 36 weeks.

I’ve never had a follow up from the fertility clinic we used, they weren’t great throughout the whole process tbh. I never had a proper follow up from the C-section apart from a senior nurse asking me if my scar “looked normal”.

I’m waiting for a gynaecologist referral to look more into my issues but I’m just curious has anyone had a similar situation to this? Could it be down to IVF messing with my body when I was fertile to begin with? The pregnancy? The C-section? All of it or just Mother Nature?

Apologies if this is wrong place to post this. I understand how sensitive a subject infertility and IVF is. I am very extremely grateful for my daughter and know how lucky I am to have her. I wish everyone going through IVF all the love and best of luck. My heart goes out to those who have more than 1 cycle it is TOUGH! X

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Baby #2??

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My kids won't listen to me get into stuff when they know they aren't supposed to. Telling me no all the time. Only listen to their dad. Laughs when I correct them. I spend most of my time yelling at them because they don't want to listen to me at all. My husband said that I shouldn't have kids. And I am believing him on it. I was never meant to be a mother now. I won't hurt my kids I just want to disappear and make everyone else's lives better without me.

Tests

So I had a blood test at the drs bc I keep getting positive tests when the blood test was negative what could this mean? Hubby says the tests are negative and said he can’t see anything. Negative image down below.

Am I pregnant?

I lightly spotted almost 5 days ago, which is not common for me before my period.
My period was supposed to come today. I should have tested in the morning but its 5:30pm.
Is there a second line??

Anyone have this happen before?

We were not trying to conceive, used protection and had sex on week 2 of my cycle (accidentally on my peak ovulation day). Week 3 we had Flu A. Week 4 my period did not come (it’s very regular). I tested and it was negative (2 different brands).
What should have been week 2 of my next cycle (now 6 weeks post last period), I had light red/ pink spotting for one day when I wiped. The following week, I tested again, still negative, but this time almost all the dye was in the negative space, which I’ve never seen happen before. The area where it shows one horizontal line for negative and a plus sign for positive, the horizontal line was super faded at the 3 minute mark, and the negative vertical line in the next window was VERY dark. Now I’m on week 8 of all this, period did not show up yesterday. Nothing in my life has changed (no additional stress, no other illness, no changes in diet or exercise, etc).

Has anyone gone through this and NOT been pregnant? I’m super nervous as we thought we were done having kids.

PS. I know I should go get a blood test, does anyone know if urgent care will do that? I’m past being convinced by a pee test.