IVF journal prompts for every stage

• What protocol did your clinic put you on, and how was it explained?
• What questions do you still want to ask your care team?
• How are you feeling about the calendar in front of you?
• Who knows about this cycle, and who are you keeping it from for now?

• First injection — what did it feel like, physically and emotionally?
• Track today's meds, doses, and timing.
• Side effects showing up in your body or mood?
• One small kindness you gave yourself today.
• Monitoring appointment notes: follicle counts, E2, lining.

• Trigger shot: date, time, how it felt.
• The morning of retrieval — what do you want to remember?
• How many eggs were retrieved? How did that number land for you?
• Recovery: pain, bloating, rest, food, comfort.
• A note to yourself for the next few days of waiting.

• Fertilization report: how many made it to day 1?
• Day 3 update — cell counts and grades.
• Day 5 / 6 / 7 blastocyst report.
• What is it like to wait for these calls?
• PGT-A results, if you tested — and how you're holding them.

• Which embryo are you transferring, and why this one?
• How did you and your care team make this decision?
• What are you hoping for, and what are you afraid of naming?
• A message to this embryo before transfer day.

• What did the morning of transfer look like?
• Who was with you? What did you wear, eat, listen to?
• The image from the transfer — describe what you saw.
• First words you said to your embryo after transfer.
• Instructions from your clinic for the days ahead.

• Day-by-day symptoms (or lack of them).
• How are you distracting, coping, holding on?
• Any at-home tests? How did that feel?
• Beta day: number, nurse's voice, your reaction.
• Second beta and doubling — what did they say?

• Date, weeks + days, what was measured.
• What did you see on the screen?
• What did your doctor say — and what did you feel?

• Heart rate, measurements, gestational age.
• Describe the moment you saw the heartbeat.
• Who did you tell first?

• Log each scan: date, weeks, measurements, notes.
• How is your body feeling week to week?
• Meds you're still on (progesterone, estrogen, etc.).

• Last day at the clinic — what do you want to remember?
• A thank you (or a goodbye) to your care team.
• First OB appointment: date, provider, first impressions.
• Looking back at the version of you who started this journal — what would you tell her?

In Loving Memory

For the cycles that do not end the way we hoped.

• Did this embryo or baby have a name? What did it mean to you?
• What special ways will you remember this life?
• How has this experience changed you, and your thoughts about IVF?
• Do you plan to take a break before another transfer?
• What compassionate care can you give yourself right now?
• What do you most need in this moment?
• Anything you'd like to say to your baby.