Baby aspirin

I keep wondering why my RE doesn't encourage all patients to take baby aspirin. The first time I took it was the inj/iui cycle I got the bfp in 2005. I forgot to take it with the ivf this summer, but I have been taking it for this FET (81mg a day).

Here's something I read about baby aspirin today (written by an RE):

"In a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study, 149 patients went through IVF cycles, with the only difference being the use of a single 100 mg aspirin (not available in the U. S.) a day in one group and placebo in the other. Patients in the aspirin group did much better than those on the placebo. Statistically, they had better numbers of eggs, higher estrogen levels, more uterine and ovarian blood flow, and almost double the implantation and pregnancy rates of the placebo group.

The authors concluded that one baby aspirin a day seems to be a useful and safe treatment for women who undergo assisted reproductive procedures. At Reproductive Partners, on the basis of early reports, we began recommending in early 1998 that all of our IVF patients routinely take baby (81 mg.) aspirin. At present there is no evidence to suggest that this recommendation should be extended to women trying to conceive without assistance, or using conventional fertility treatments."

This same RE said "In general, we look at one hCG level 16 days after retrieval and want it to be at least 100. We don't do more hCGs in that case. If the level is below 100, we repeat it in 4 days and if it does not double or go up at least 66.7% every two days, we feel that the prognosis is guarded." My hCG was done at the equivalent of 17 days after retrieval and was closer to 200 than 100 so I feel very encouraged. :-)