Starting TTC again after missed miscarriage

@Smilingdonkey 124 last Monday and 616 yesterday - doctor says it depends on when I ovulated for the results to be ok

I don’t know - the miscarriage was too recent for me to feel positive but I am trying to stay open minded at least

@Smilingdonkey I am ok! Have been very stressed about the low hcg and scan on Friday today - although in fact do think I maybe had a bit of nausea this afternoon which is making me feel a little bit more hopeful 🤞 I think I tested at 7 dpo and got a faint line - can happen xx

Hi everyone. I've really been struggling following my MC and have kept away from all social media for a while. This thread has moved quite quickly!

@Workingmama1 I'm the same with the EWCM... there's no mistaking it! Although until genuinely starting TTC I didn't really know what it was!

@Ranoutofgoodnames I have everything crossed for you!

@Smilingdonkey This sounds so positive! Positive vibes!

@itssquidstella fingers crossed for you, too!

So, after my MC on 28/05 I started OPKs as soon as I stopped bleeding. I got flashing smileys from 04/06 all the way to Saturday 13/06 when I got a static smiley. DH was working away all weekend and due to the pandemic the hotel wouldn't let me stay the night with him. He drove home after his 12 hour shift on the Sunday so we could try to make a baby! I was sure that we were too late and have been waiting for AF but then day before yesterday I noticed EWCM and the same yesterday so thought I'd do another Clearblue digital test and got another static smiley! We dtd last night and I tested again today (with a new tester and 3 cheapy strips) and got another static and three dark lines! We will definitely be having another go tonight to maximise our chances. I'm really pleased, but it means another TWW and you all know how excruciating those are. In the meantime I've been distracting myself in the garden, so if anyone wants any courgette or cabbage or celeriac plants, let me know

@Smilingdonkey I had this stress a couple of weeks ago!!! But it was of course a beautiful new line - 🤞 for you and please pee kn hundreds now to make me feel better about my addiction 😂😂😂

Eeeek, @SmilingDonkey, I hope it's a new line! Surely 10 weeks after the MMC, it must be?! 🤞🏼

@Smilingdonkey I hope yours is a new line!

@Ranoutofgoodnames I hope you get your results soon, it’s so hard trying not to self diagnose things after googling but chances are things are moving along - fingers crossed!

@skyblue20 I know what you mean, 2020 has been sucked into a miscarriage vacuum for me so far, here’s hoping the second part of the year turns out better! I’m sick of thinking about TTC all the time :( I hope this cycle is your lucky one!

@itssquidstella it’s still early days - fingers crossed for you too!

After waiting and waiting for any sign of ovulation I’ve now had a peak for over 24 hours!! The opposite of last month’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it... so I guess another day of DTD today (it quickly gets exhausting doesn’t it!!)

I had the most sensitive nipples and some cramps last night, which Google and Ovia tell me could be signs of ovulation so fingers crossed there’s all sorts of magic going on in there now 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 Would be slightly earlier than last time but still about right. Will continue to DTD regularly for a bit yet just in case but I guess this could tentatively maybe be the first day of my TWW... 😬

Fingers crossed @itssquidstella, sending positive thoughts your way 💕 xxx

Well, I took another frer this morning and it was either negative or fainter than yesterday's (I could maybe see a glimmer but it might have been wishful thinking), so I'm thinking chemical. Will test again in a day or two but not feeling hopeful :(

@Ranoutofgoodnames sorry I think you posted as I was writing before. I've got everything crossed for a late ovulation for you, remember sperm can hang around for 5 days so if you dtd well.before ovulation that still counts. I've got everything crossed for you x

Thanks @SkyBlue20 and fingers crossed you get good news soon!

CD16 for me and I’m already so sick of TTC - I’m really impatient so just want to get to the part where we find out if I’m pregnant or not! Checked back on my Ovia app and when I conceived last time, I ovulated on CD19 (well, I think so, I had what I believe to be quite obvious ovulation pains and size on early scan would have fit me having a five week cycle) so got a few days yet if it follows the same pattern and then the TWW! I feel like I’ve just been wishing this year away - first of all with TTC then counting down to the 12 week scan, then counting down to each next scan, the medical management, the MVA, the test after three weeks, my next period and now back to the beginning... it’s exhausting!

Evening all!

@Threnody What a strange dream 😂

@Smilingdonkey Sounding positive! Fingers crossed for you 🤞🏼 I’m counting down until the end of the week so you can test!

@itssquidstella Sounding VERY positive for you! Tentative congratulations!! 💕

@Ranoutofgoodnames I’m so sorry the tests didn’t come back as you’d hoped, I’m sending all of the positive vibes for your scan on Friday and sending big hugs - can only imagine how tough it must be. And don’t worry about being low on here - we’re all here for everyone, good news, bad news and everything in between 💕

@Smilingdonkey yes I did but I am worried that it stopped rising after the point it flipped from 1-2 to 2-3 if that makes sense? That should have been last week at some point I think so I don’t know if it got over that threshold and am now going back down.

Or if it is rising but not quickly enough.

At least this is a whole new research topic for google - there is A LOT to read out there about hcg levels 🤓

@Smilingdonkey not much to be honest - I'm a bit bloated and weeing a bit more than usual but that's basically it! I wasn't expecting to fall so quickly after my last mc so haven't quite accepted it yet; obviously I really hope it sticks but I'm not getting too excited as I know there's so much potential for it to go wrong still.

Wow so exciting to check back in and see so many maybe pregnancy signs!

I was supposed to start couch to 5k today but we went on a family bike ride yesterday, my husband has been trying to get us all out for ages, my daughter loved it but I am so achy today I couldn't face running!

My hcg levels are low unless I ovulated later than I think I did - and I don’t think so because we didn’t dtd at the right time in that case

Having a scan on Friday to see what’s going on....I am sorry I don’t want to taint this positive thread with negativity. I don’t feel particularly anything at the moment. I will be incredibly sad but I don’t know what will happen and I have kind of got to a point of thinking that a pregnancy is not a baby until a lot further on - so this is just the first step in a potentially long line of steps to get to a baby

Sorry ladies - in a bit of a slump - am trying to maintain some hope while also accepting that it might be bad news xx