fertility treatment: a realistic recovery timeline
What recovery from fertility treatment actually looks like week by week — downtime, travel clearance and when final results appear.
The first days
Stimulation lasts 10–14 days with regular scans, retrieval is a day procedure, and transfer follows 3–5 days later (or later in a frozen cycle). The two-week wait to the pregnancy test is often emotionally the hardest part.
Flying home
Most patients are cleared to fly within the window their surgeon sets at discharge; it varies with the procedure and your case. Your GetClinic plan schedules departure only after the treating doctor signs off.
The next 12 months
Healing continues long after the trip. Every GetClinic package includes 12 months of structured aftercare: photo check-ins, scheduled video reviews with your surgeon and a coordinator who escalates anything that looks off.