Cd1 of ttc first cycle after loss... anyone want to join me? 🙂

@Vic231 yup sounds like the same app - there's a section called "results" and they'll pop up in there.

Yeah that was our approach too, the only thing that came out of my bloods was progresterone at day 21 was borderline, and the EPU said the same to me about getting a prescription from them if I got pregnant again in the meantime so we thought why not. Might as well keep on trying!

@moosey89 thank you! This is great! think I have this app.. is it the one where you order prescriptions and also keeps a record of appointments? I've just gone on and saw it has letters confirming miscarriage so I assume this is where I'd also see the results?

Those timings sound the same for us, the midwife said it's the wait on seeing the consultant that's the time consuming bit. She said we'd be looking at December time or into January.

Are you still going to TTC whilst you wait to see a consultant? I think once we've had bloods done and as long as there isn't anything abnormal, then that is our plan. The midwife said we can be prescribed progesterone if we fell pregnant again in the meantime.

@Vic231 I've just had a heap of bloods done for miscarriage and fertility checks. If you have the Patient Access app you can see all your results as soon as they are there, along with the normal range so you can see easily if anything looks like it'll need further investigation.

The ones you can't get before seeing the consultant are things like genetic tests, as they have to be ordered by the specialist. I've got my appointment 27 November, my GP put the referral in mid August x

Hi @Vic231 I’m so sorry to hear of your losses, that is particularly tough 😔 I’m glad to hear though that you have been referred quickly for blood tests after your most recent loss, I hope you can get some answers soon. Sending lots of hugs your way 💐

@SnookyPook I think we’re at similar points in our cycle, I’m CD13 today but tend to have a longer follicular phase so I’m not expecting to ovulate until CD18 and still no peaks on opk yet, how about you? Ahaha I love the Ironman comment, it’s so true 😂

We have been dtd every 2-3 days just in case it’s early and will try and go every day from tomorrow although I’m already knackered! When I fell pregnant with my loss it was from just one time, the day before ov, so it makes me wonder if less is more sometimes?!

Yes it’s really tough and I’m sorry to hear your due date is approaching 😔 I think after a loss we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fall pregnant again quickly to try to fill the void in our bellies and our hearts but in reality our bodies and minds need time to heal 💗

Hi everyone, I hope I can join. I'm so sorry to read about all of your losses.

I lost my daughter late last year at 25 weeks after a TFMR. I've since had two miscarriages, one at 5 weeks and one at 6 weeks. The last one at the start of this month. I sadly don't have any living children.

We have been referred for blood tests and they are next week, has anyone had these before? Is there anything we can ask? I know it will then be a wait to see a consultant but the the EPU said they would be able to tell us quite quickly if there was anything obviously wrong. I'm just so eager to try again! X

@Ladyinpink1 ooh that’s interesting about the b6 and omega, do you know the recommended dosage? I started taking pregnacare with my loss, took a break for 3 weeks after the mc and I’ve been taking the pregnacare conception for the past 3 weeks, but I’ve checked and there’s no omega in them so I might check that out, thanks! Thank you, I had never used the strips until after the mc so I don’t really know what I’m doing with them but think I’m just going to stick with tracking bbt and try a relaxed mindset from the next cycle 🤞🏼

Focusing on ttc is helping me deal with the loss but I know realistically that it’s unlikely to happen this month with stressing over tests and my cycle being a bit haywire. I also consumed a lot of cocktails on holiday earlier this week 😂 how are you getting on? X

@Bali200 CD11 counting from first day of my bleed from the CP. Feel like CM is changing a little the last couple of days and very slight rise on opk which usually happens day before my peak which happens quite quickly... would be a teeny bit early if I peak tomorrow but within realms of normalish.

And thank you... yeah it's been tough. Totally get you on the weirdness of time. It's like, right back to square 1, when, if all had gone well, I'd be a month off my due date now. And then to have had another loss.. it's almost like I'm going backwards at this point! It's tough isn't it.

Ahaha my DH asked earlier where I'm at in my cycle and when he is most needed and I said, well, probably the next 4-6 days... and he was like "bloody hell, it's like doing an IronMan" 😂

@SnookyPook so sorry for your losses, it must have been so difficult to go through the CP not long after your MMC 😔 what CD are you now? I think the thing with feeling like time is dragging is because it feels like ‘lost time’. As it’s 6 weeks today since I had my 12 week scan, but it seems like a lifetime ago that I found out I was pregnant in June and there’s nothing to show for it. It just feels like it was all a dream.

@Ladyinpink1 thank you, I think it doesn’t help that my cycles were irregular before my loss so I’m still trying to figure out what ‘my normal’ is, but I hope I get there soon! I came off mini-pill end Jan, didn’t get a period until end-March so only had 3 x periods before I fell pregnant with my loss, with ov ranging from CD15-CD21. A quick google tells me the brown spotting could be a hormone imbalance/lack of oestrogen so hoping it sorts itself out this cycle and doesn’t have any long lasting problems.

Even though I have no hopes for this cycle, I hear you on the legs in the air, I’ve been getting the practice in and DP can’t believe his luck 😂 pre-mom is putting my ov as CD15 and natural cycles says CD18 so we’ve been covering our bases this week.

I’m CD12 and have already done 3x LH test strips today which are all BFN’s. Dear god I need help 😂

@Haylsttc I'm sorry for your loss, it must have been a terrible shock for you 💔 yeah hopefully this is third time lucky!

TTC can be very stressful, especially after a loss. I have my fingers crossed that this is the month for your rainbow baby 🌈

Joining this thread too, so sorry for everyone’s loses ❤️

I’m on my 3rd cycle of trying after a MMC at 9 weeks 2 days, we had saw the heartbeat at 7 weeks 2 days so it was a huge shock to get the bad news.

I’m not tracking this cycle as I’ve found the last two cycles so stressful using ovulation tests. Hoping this is 3rd cycle lucky 🍀

Good luck to everyone else too!

I feel the exact same! Promised myself I wouldn’t be obsessed but cannot stop logging every single ‘symptom’ I get (I’m sure I’m imagining half of them!)

Hello! I am on my first cycle TTC after a mmc at 10 weeks in July. This was my first pregnancy so I'm very anxious. I feel like TTC is all I can think about at the minute 🙈 I'm 3dpo so it's going to be a long 2 weeks wait!

Can I join ladies? I had a MMC in July - baby stopped growing at 8 weeks (saw the heartbeat previously too!). Had a period in August but have had spotting for a few days this month too! Trying to conceive baby #3. I am so anxious about the potential of another MC but so desperate for another baby to complete my family. I’m not sure what CD I am as I’ve just been having sex twice a week hoping to catch it so I don’t become obsessed (but here I am taking pregnancy tests every other day!). I can’t stop myself from symptom spotting either and it’s driving me crazy because I know I’ll be so upset if AF arrives!

How is everyone feeling?

@Bali200 my cycle pretty much returned to normal straight away. My first period started exactly 5 weeks after my MC bleeding started, that cycle was slight short (24 days instead of 28/29) and then they were normal. I conceived again 4th cycle after my MMC but unfortunately that was a chemical pregnancy that only lasted 5 days after my BFP. Now back to TTC again. Cycle 1 post CP and 5 months after my MMC. When I write it all down, none of it has taken very long but boy does it feel like time is dragging!!

@Oxalis00 that's a nice thought about more time with DC1 before they start school. It all comes around so fast doesn't it. It's just very poignant. Only 2 years between me and my Sis and we're best friends so I always wanted a similar gap for mine. However, the other week, our neighbour came over who is 4 1/2 years older than DS and they were having a blast and still playing together nicely etc. So that reassured me that actually, DS is likely to still enjoy playing with a sibling even if the gap is bigger. Currently 3 1/2 years now... Che Sera, Sera ...

Thank you @Ladyinpink1 it was tough after seeing a healthy heartbeat at an early reassurance scan where the baby measured 8+4. It must have happened soon afterwards but was lulled into a false sense of security from the scan.

I’m very sorry that you have experienced a mc twice. I’m terrified of it happening again but I’ve started feeling a bit more positive and hopeful the past week or so. Just wish I knew why I’m spotting brown at this point in my cycle, maybe it’s still left over from my MC even though I’ve had an AF since.

Do you mind me asking how long did it take you to fall pregnant again after your first miscarriage and if your cycle returned to normal afterwards?

Sending lots of positive thoughts your way and to everyone in the group, we’ve got this x

@Ladyinpink1 ooooh really. Are you using the same thermometer? At the moment I got up 20mins before LO he starts the day around 6:45am usually 7 do I have a good 10-20mins to get it done and recorded.
Yes at the moment due to irregular cycles it would be good to see whats going on.

Baby Dust to everyone

I started to so BBT this cycle just thought be interesting to see whats going on with my body. So far so good.

I had a chemical last week and if needed 7days to deal with the grief.

But I still deapite this want to try this month.
I am unfortunately that persons who has all the pregnancy symptoms for PMS. As with LO who will he 2 soon I had no pregnancy symptoms until I was 5 weeks. Before BFP I only had mild symptoms not typical pregnancy at all. So I kinda know when I got those pregnancy symptoms early it is PMS. Been right so far.

TTC for 7/8 months now and looking to see the Dr as I am over 35.

Good luck to all the Mamas

Yes @Ladyinpink1 I think about time a lot! I find that a very strange aspect to the whole MC experience, and one I can’t quite get my head around. It really resonates when you say ”the time that’s been used up so far”. I do think of it as ‘lost’ time, and I find it so strange that I’m at a standstill - or worse, going backwards, being less pregnant than I was 5 months ago - when others who conceived after me are now more pregnant than I was. And then as @SnookyPook says there’s the countdown to the due date, and the calculating of what would have been at this point and at that… I’ve got a lot of hope invested in getting pregnant again I think, and if that then takes time too I expect to struggle.

On the age gap @SnookyPook the one perk I can see is that if I conceive in the next 6 or so months I’ll be on mat leave for DD’s last year before school, so get to have a bit more time with her as a he’s in nursery 3 days a week. Like you say, hopefully it’ll make sense for our families when we get there! It’s so sweet your DS is so adoring of the other family babies, but I can imagine the pang of seeing that and thinking what would have been. DD loves babies too, though thankfully hasn’t yet said anything about us having one.

Spotting has progressed a bit today, so this is officially my CD1 of TTC! Eek!