Hi ive been posting on the miscarrage forum but now feel ready to start all over again!
My story, Had my first MMC in nov 2007, followed by an erpc (worst moment of my life) this was my first pregnancy and i felt robbed. Waited for two periods and got pg with my little DD in feb 2008, i had a great pg and birth but was on constant knicker alert. We decided when she was two we would like another baby to add to the familiy, we decided to try in sept this year and got pg first time! (very shocked) I was so hoping this would be my time to have a stress free pg and actually enjoy the experience! How wrong i was, i started to spot at six weeks had a scan which showed a sac but no baby, i then enjoured the worst two week of my life by having scan and blood tests. I was told on the 8th on nov the pregnany was not going to continue and i had a blighted ovum, and on the 9th i had a erpc. I have recovered well and stopped bleeding the day after the procedure. I went to see my doc last week who told me i could start ttc asap as long as i feel up to it?? anyone else ttc straight away, last time i was told to wait and i did but this time i have read that there is no lit to say wait apart from to date the pg?? Im hoping there are some people who can share there experiences and someone who wants to join me!
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TTC after MC, ERPC anyone want to join me??
nurse47 · 16/11/2010 10:23
Nurse, hello, I'll join you! I think we've been on a similar journey and bumped into each other before. My story, I am 36 and recently decided with DH to try for a baby, thinking we may regret it if not (in a thought-out way, not I fancy a new handbag way) I fell pregnant that first month and was over the moon, however found out at the 12 week scan that I had a blighted ovum, and there was no actual baby. Really cruel, I'm still not sure whether I'd have felt even worse to have seen a little life or not, but the scan screen of an empty sac, where one expected a wriggly baby, will stay with me forever and is the one thing that can bring on the tears and wibbly top lip. I thought I'd try to miscarry naturally, being a closet hippy, but nothing happened so I had an erpc on 15th October, which was fine. My niece was born that week too so it was all very bizarre, but I am through the worst and feeling a lot more positive. My periods sort of came back this weekend, I say this because there's not much blood, but plenty of cramps. I don't feel ill though so think this must be par for the course, but I can be prone to the odd melodramatic spiral and think 'gargh, it's an infection/I am infertile/something is wrong!
Just glad to get them back, that is if it is a period and not something wrong! 
I hadn't intentionally waited until my first period to TTC again, I'd have loved to get pregnant again straight away, and had a weirdy ritual of doing a friday morning pregnancy test, after I'd initially had a BFN, hoping to see some good news. I really looked forward to it all week, and as I was quite matter of fact about the outcome, and they were Tesco own, didn't see the harm in it, plus it meant I didn't feel guilty about getting a bit tipsy with X Factor 
Anyway, what waffle, basically wanted to say hi and I'm with you on the next step of the journey! I don't get all the charting stuff so even though I lurk on Wombat's thread and admire everyone on there, I'm a bit lost to be honest!
Sorry to bamboozle you Sparkly. We're not all charting on the Fertility Friend website (what they refer to as FF) over on the TTC after MC thread but we are all [increasingly] obsessive about TTC 
. If you fancy de-lurking at any point you can always ask questions if you don't understand the shorthand. Sorry to hear about your loss and good luck! I'm hoping [and SWI-ing!] for a bean by Christmas, but trying not to get too fixated. (Baah! who am I kinding, I'm totally terrified there's something wrong/it'll never happen/etc, etc but i'm trying to stay rational about it...)
Welcome rach32, I've seen your posts on other threads, sorry you're going through such a hard time. It will get better, and MN is such a great support, although I perhaps have information overload through too much lurking, so with comfort brings the worry of knowledge! A girl at work announced her pregnancy practically before sperm had met egg, and I really envied her utter oblivious faith that all would be well. So I know what you mean Star (hi!), I'm going to be full of fear the entire way through the next (soon please!) pregnancy, and the thought of going to the 12 week scan and seeing a blank screen again fills me with horror.
Star, sorry to hear about your MMC, Sunday is so recent but you seem to be coping. Just have some wine chocolate on hand for shaky moments. I got some cheap pregnancy tests, ostensibly to check the hcg was out of my system but if I'm honest it was because immediately afterwards I wanted to be one of those cases I've read about on here, who get pregnant again straight away. How I'd have been able to tell it was a pregnancy and not leftover hcg I have no idea, I was fooling myself really. My first test, 2 weeks later, showed a really really faint positive (though that may have been a mirage ) and the following Friday it was properly negative. I suspect, so soon after your erpc, that you'd still have hcg in your system and it would test positive, which might be hard to take and give you false hope in a way. That's my take on it, only you can decide what's best for you. Wombat, good luck with your bean, fingers crossed and keep us posted. You can wave the flag for us newbies. Rach, I think I'm a way off a thermometer yet but where did you get the ov sticks? it can be my new Friday treat! Thanks for starting up the thread Nurse, it feels nice here.
I took my niece to see Peppa Pig live and the auditorium smelt of poo. I'm not squeamish, don't mind changing the cat litter or nappies, but was taken aback slightly. The childless are usually spared such things, no-one warns you! Nurse, I don't even know about cycles really! I had an implant for 6 years, and when it came out I had a period almost straight away and then got pregnant. Who knows when I ovulate? Need a stick covered in wee to tell me, clearly 
I planned to guess it was around about when I felt like having sex, nature being the cunning fox that it is! At the moment, this is rare (the hot water bottle in bed, reaking of rubber, is a real turn off ) Star, I'm 36 so haven't the luxury of waiting if I'm honest, my fertility is meant to have fallen off a cliff, so once this period is out of the way I shall be on ov alert!
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