TTC after miscarriage - February 2020

@TerribleImagination AF is here!

Had no symptoms at all! Just started bleeding out of nowhere then came mild cramps.

But full blown AF here... will be a heavy one i think

I have a colposcopy booked for thursday but now i wonder how are they gonna do it!??

But yeah hope February is the month as DP was really sad today too....

@rebeccacntu that's good to know, I seem to be heading along the same sort of pattern, had high ovulation readings for the lash two days and dropping again today. The first high reading was 12 post miscarriage.

@seaduck, I feel the same as you and just wanted to start trying again immediately. I hope your ovulation comes quickly for you 🤞

Another joiner here, I miscarried at 10wks last week, and stopped bleeding almost immediately. A scan confirmed everything was gone last Weds.
I want to throw myself back into it, hoping to catch ovulation this month, but have no idea when to expect it or when my period will be due. Just hoping for the best really.

Dear All,

Just want to share my experience so people in similar situation can relay.

I had natural complete miscarriage on 5th January (10 weeks + 6days).
The bleeding was on for 2 days, completely stopped the 3rd day and returned like normal period bleeding on the 4th day and completely stopped again on the 9th January.

I have been getting flashing clearblue smiley face from 19th and 20th January and the scan shows I am about to ovulate. However, I am going on long-distance travel and will wait for one menstrual period before I TTC again. I am expecting AF at 2-5th February.

@Sparkl I think you’ve hit the nail on the head for me..I think it just gives me something to do and focus on to stop the waiting driving me crazy!

• if everything is normal is def hard! Sorry typos really bad there!!

@Southy84 sorry you are going through this too. I had similar to what you are experiencing. I had sx on the Wednesday afternoon exactly 2 weeks ago now , had some light/medium bleeding that evening and then spotting only until Sunday with no cramps (so 4 days later). Started with light cramps the Sunday morning and they were quite severe Sunday night and kept me up they were so sore. Sunday night I passed a few larger clots and had fresh red bleeding for another 3 days but had gone back to quite light with a few small clots but the cramps persisted until last Thursday, since then I’ve had some intermittent mild cramps and just brown spotting (with some stringy brown bits..yuck!). I rang EPU the morning after I had started bleeding again and they said it was normal as long as not soaking through pads in leas than an hour and I felt well/not feverish and there was no smell. The not knowing if everything is def hard, I think ringing them EPU for piece of mind is worth it if you are concerned but it does sound pretty normal/similar to me at least!

Hi @southy84. My bleeding after erpc wasn’t too bad. I had minor bleeding for about 10 days but no cramps or pain. However I have heard that intermittent bleeding can happen and it’s normal. My doctor did say that I should call them if the bleeding gets heavy or painful or has a strong smell as it could be a sign of infection. I’d say call the doctor so that you can rule that out? The other thing could be in some instances there are retained products even after surgery. So better get it checked. Hopefully it’s nothing and it’ll stop soon..x

@Southy84 I also had d and c on Friday and I really stupidly thought that would mean the end of it, I thought I would bleed a little bit and it would be done but here I am, over two weeks now from my initial bleed which signalled something wrong and I am still bleeding. It is not heavy it's just still very red and I am desperately wanting it to turn brown. If you have any doubts you should get in touch and get yourself seen to. Hopefully we can recover from this and hopefully get our successful bfps one day and you don't want to risk that with a complication or infection

Thank you @Sparkl it’s just not knowing what’s normal, although I know it’s different for everyone. It’s just in My head it was nearly over and then it got bad, just hard to know whether to worry or not.

Thanks so much for sharing your experience @GoldenBauble this is the heaviest it’s been, even heavier than the day of the surgery. I just had spotting up until last night. I may give the epu a call later if it doesn’t ease off, thank you

@Southy84 I had surgery and my bleeding seemed to stop after the first few days. Then 9/10 days post surgery it suddenly came back heavier than it had been before! It took me by surprise so I rang epu who told me it was normal to have intermittent bleeding and I continued to bleed (mostly fairly lightly) for 3 weeks.

But they did tell me to contact them if the bleeding remained heavy, if I had any bad cramps or passed large clots. I never experienced any cramping so I would say if you are worried definitely contact the hospital. I always found them to be really supportive and reassuring

@Southy84 sorry you find yourself here. I didn’t have medical management so don’t know what’s normal but it sounds stressful. Hope you’re ok

@Leok83 I know what you mean, I feel like an experiment too but totally unscientific one throwing 10 solutions at the problem at the same time. When I got pregnant before (successful and MC) I just went by CM and didn’t even DTD that much. I think I’m just doing all this to pass the time/make the waiting game easier!
The last two cycles opks have just confirmed CM so I might give those up next month if it’s obvious again this month. But also thinking it might be good to have proper records if I go to the doctor.

@Timeforanamechangeagain1 really hoping for earlier OV this month with supplements but I know it probably takes a few cycles in reality

Thank you @TerribleImagination x

I hope that I don’t upset anyone by asking this but I have no idea if it’s normal. So I had surgery Friday, barely any bleeding and no pain. Then last night out of nowhere I have awful cramps and bleeding which has continued into today. Has this happened to anyone else? I’ve had a mmc before but didn’t have surgery and wasn’t expecting this 3 days after the operation. I don’t feel it’s bad enough to phone the hospital, I just thought it was weird that I was so ok physically for the first couple of days and now this :(

@HenrysHome have you got the FLO app?
You can work out your average cycle length on this app xxx

@TerribleImagination yep I agree!!! Some women make it look so easy and here we are on a thread of TTC!! 🙈
At least we're all in it together and can ask crazy questions amongst ourselves hehe.
Xxxx

I’m having a relatively normal period first time after my loss, must be different for everyone. I can’t wait for it to finish so we can start ttc properly. No idea of the length of my cycles though as I’ve never been regular, will just have to dtd lots ha.

I’m hoping it’s ok to join, I had surgery Friday for a mmc, baby was 9+3 and I found out at 11+4 the bad news. Having a bad day today, feel so emotional, it should have been our 12 week NHS scan today and I just feel so sad. I was told I have to wait 2 weeks then do a hpt to make sure it’s not showing positive still. Then they recommend waiting until after first proper period to try again if we want to. So I won’t be trying straight away but hope it’s ok to join you all. Sorry you are all trying after a mc, it really is such a hard time and I have everything crossed everyone gets their bfp very soon x

How do you even avoid it???
Also we used pre seed in jan and didn’t in november so now considering dropping pre seed

Thanks @terrible ! How are you getting on?

I am officially joining the thread...
14dpo (conservative 14 so probably more like 15) and still BFN on frer.
No signs of AF but even less signs of pregnancy...
It will be first AF since MC at xmas...

Now worried it will take ages to arrive!

But hope that February will be our month :)