TTC after MC (#7) - fx for better times ahead

Oh my god congratulations fruit !!!!

Thanks for the congrats coco and Mama plus happy 40th birthday !

paws congratulations hun!!! Fingers crossed this is it for you lovely. A scan at 7 weeks sounds perfect, I say both hbs at 6+4 and 6+6 ?? an earlier one is just a worry. Good luck for it in a few days glad to see the bleeding has stopped too.

cherry so glad you saw a lovely heartbeat, congratulations x

My private 8 weeks scan went well, both heartbeats looked perfect, then had a lovely relaxing holiday, 1 week 4 days until my 12 weeks scan, still nervous but feel terrible so guess that is a good sign!

Hi, I'm still around just fed up at minute with it all. I had such a bizarre period this month. I came on as normal last Wednesday, red/pinky blood, light flow on first day, then the bleeding stopped, which has never happened before. All I got for 4 days was the occasional brown discharge when I wiped! Thought it might be implantation bleeding but I've done a cheapo test today and it was negative?! It's really cheered me up reading that quite a few of you lovely ladies have got your bfp ?? xx

Thanks for your reply coco I'm trying not to let me mind go into overdrive and worry too much, but it's so hard after a previous mc

Paws yes I do remember your lovely reply before, thank you :) up until the scan though I just made myself think the worse, I thought maybe it would somehow be easier if I got bad new if I hadn't got my hopes up and prepared myself for bad new. I don't think I will be able to relax and enjoy my pregnancy until I'm past the point of my last mc though (baby stopped developing at 10 weeks) so I think I will get a private scan at 10 weeks, can't wait til the 12 week scan now! And best of luck for your scan next week Paws I will keep everything crossed for you!

Sakura fx for the relaxed approach, I think sometimes these things are more likely to happen if we don't stress too much about it and think about something else :)

Hi sakura good to hear from you. Hope you're having a lovely holiday and for the relaxed approach.

Hi Everyone, I'm still around and I apologise for not being very active, I'm currently in Turkey on holiday, cd 21. Haven't used opks this cycle, but have fairly regular cycles, trying the relaxed approach as I was getting myself into a right state.. anyway I'm away relaxing and having a good time!

cherry i'm so pleased for you and fx it's smooth sailing from here!

I think i'm going to have a break for a while from ttc, whilst we'd love to be pregnant again it's just too hard right now when it doesn't happen.
Thank you for advice and support though and i'm sure i'll be back in the new year

I'm ok ta coco, how are you doing?

cherry, do you remember my reply to that post you left when you had that gush?
Well if you remember, I didn't want to get your hopes up by telling you about my friend who had a similar experience and all was well, but turned out you're just like her, she had a heavy unexplained bleed, and carried her son to term! .....you have no idea how happy I am to read your news! Its made my day, fx for an uneventful, truely boring pregnancy from now on!

All quiet and boring on my front (just the way I like it) no more bleeding, just good old annoying pg symptoms, tired, moody, wanna slap dh ....all the time!?? Bleeding gums, nose, absolute constant sneezing upset tummy,.....
The list could go on!

7 days and counting till 6 week scan, like counting down the days till Christmas! This pregnancy feels a lot different, so many pregnancy symptoms, and not one migraine (had them constantly with last two pregnancies that mc'd) I've been taking pregnacare conception vits 'his & hers', don't know if it's made any difference but worth a shot! Now on normal pg vits.

This thread is so quiet now? I don't do fb so am not on the mumsnet page... How is everyone, anyone due to test?

ah, that is such lovely news cherry...huge congrats!!!

the corpus luteum is only recorded if it they come across it, otherwise they do not go actively looking for it. If it says in the report 'not seen' it doesn't mean that it is not there. it is not possible to get pregnant without the corpus luteum . Hope the bleeding stops soon, how worrying for you.

emu hope you are ok

paws how is it going?

So since I last posted a couple of weeks ago a lot has happened. I phoned my gp the day after my heavy red bleed to explain what had happened but wasn't sure if I'd actually miscarried as the heavy bleeding only lasted an hour or so and no clots then tailed off to spotting, she wasn't very helpful at all and basically said that I probably was miscarrying and to still go to my next scan anyway to check either way.
cue nearly two weeks of me being an obsessive knicker checker and losing count of the number of times I've poas to check. I continued to spot and sometimes lightly bleed brown or reddish brown, sometimes even passing small dark clots, yet contined to get strong positives on my tests, all very confusing and extremely stressful!
I went to the epu for my follow up scan this morning and as soon as the sonographer put the scanner on my belly there it was! Heart flickering away measuring 7+5, so it's actually caught up by a couple of days in line with my dates. I was so gobsmacked I just burst into tears (I blame the hormones).
They couldn't see any reason I was bleeding (and still am on and off today) it's a mystery.
However, I have now read the report they gave me which says 'no corpus luteum seen' so I now have something else to worry about, doesn't the corpus luteum produce progesterone in the early weeks? Maybe my progesterone is low I don't know.

Paws congrats on your new pregnancy! Fx for a sticky bean x

emu this wasn't a wtf cycle was it?

Sounds odd, if it was a wtf cycle then that sounds pretty normal, but if not then I'm sorry to say it may be a chemical....

I had an early loss at 4&3 in July, and some may class it as chemical as it happened only a few days after I was due on, started spotting the day before I 'was' due on, bleeding increased gradually, then I had one day of heavy and painful with tiny clots and a tiny sac that was passed just a few days 'after' period was due.

I didn't class it as chemical, as I passed a sac which probably included the foetal pole

Sorry to hear you suspect chemical, perhaps it's a good thing that you didn't get a +hpt to begin with, the hope of a bfp followed by spotting and heavy painful bleeding is not fair....
I hope you get your bfp and healthy bean next cycle, hugs to you xxx

Hey ladies, not a particularly nice topic but for those of you that have had chemical pregnancies, would u mind sharing your symptoms? I didn't test even though I was 4 days late and then I started spotting. I had a v painful and heavy flow on Saturday and Sunday but now v light which is unusual for me as I'm usually pretty heavy for 5 days.....

emu I know what you mean - I knew it hadn't stuck (few days of pregnancy symptoms then exactly the same symptoms as mc) but still got excited when AF was late.

It's just horrible when you don't know what caused it and why, which adds to extra pressure to conceive again.

At least I know it's not happened this cycle though so can calm down from the not knowing.

tailor hope you're OK. Tww is a nightmare! No matter how many times I tell myself to "relax" and not get my hopes up, I seem to go bat shit crazy in the last few days.

My period started heavy and painfully last night - oh the joy!

tailor sorry you're struggling, its not nice to have to keep going through the tww and having af show up every time after all your hard effort ttc...

I went to the doctors when I felt like I was falling apart, I've got an appointment to see someone who can help coming up soon....even though I'm pg, I'm going to keep the appointment, as I think it might help me deal with the new anxiety in feeling now! Perhaps your doc may be able to refer you if you felt it's something that might help? I can't credit the psychotherapy I've previously had enough, they are trained professionals who are very good at listening and give you the tools to help yourself pull through...

Or as you said, perhaps just a break from ttc might help? Xx

paws that is such encouraging news! And a good sign you have strong symptoms.

emu I've been through exactly what you're experiencing this week except AF turned up today Fingers very much crossed you have a different ending.

This is such a difficult time and I have to admit i'm not coping well - think i'm going to try one more cycle then leave it for a while, don't think I would be able to handle trying and nothing happening when both sil's are getting to the end of pregnancies when I would have been.

Everything was so perfect a few months ago and it's all falling apart now.

Wish there was just some way to know for sure if the mc was just a one off or if it will never happen for us. Ahhh if only I had a crystal ball!

Will do, you keep us updated too x

Ah thanks paws. I thought I'd be going crazy testing too - if AF doesn't kick in properly over the weekend I'll buy some tests on Sat and let you know.

Great news that your bleeding has stopped - make sure you keep us updated as to how things progress x

emu you never know! Keeping my fingers crossed its just plain old pregnancy spotting, and not oncoming af or chemical! Don't know how you hold off not testing, I would have to know either way, would drive me crazy

My bleeding has stopped which is good news so far!!! Other than super tired, constant sneezing and upset stomach, I'm feeling ok

Let us know if you decide to test won't you Xx

How's everyone getting on?

I'm still spotting v lightly (only when I wipe and nothing on a pad) and am definitely late now but haven't tested as would rather not know if it's a chemical which I suspect it might be :(

emu sorry you're out this month, there's nothing worse than false hope...fx for next month x

Bloods look ok for now, have to go back to hospital Saturday to have more taken to make sure levels are increasing...

Progesterone was 96 (anything as low as 20 they said they would have been happy with)
Hcg was 300 (4 weeks gestation average range is 5-426)

Well my period is late but pretty sure I'm out. Had a tiny bit of spotting yesterday morning and then nothing so of course my hopes were raised.... More spotting today though - feel so frustrated with myself for getting my hopes up yet again!