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PG four weeks after miscarriage - it hardly seems possible??

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Spaceman · 19/03/2007 15:02

Hi all,

I started to miscarry at 7wks pregnant on 19th February. I went to the nurse who did a test and confirmed my hcg levels had returned to normal by 2nd March.

I began eperiencing some faint pregnancy symptoms around 12 March and did a test yesterday (18th March). It was positive!

It hardly seems possible that I can fall pregnant again so quickly - I seem to be in my fourth week of pregnancy already. My cycle must have kicked in as soon as I saw blood, which is unusual seeing I was still showing up as pg until 22 Feb!! I phone the nurse today (who was incidentally too busy to speak to me and spoke to me through the recpeptionist) and I heard her saying 'is she sure, is she sure??' Has this happened to anyone else?

It's crazy but I'm

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hart2hart · 20/03/2007 10:43

Hi spaceman - just seen this post so wanted to add my reassurance as this happened to me last year. I had a miscarriage at 7 weeks and then to my surprise got pg again within a few weeks! Felt a bit confused at first as wasn't sure if it was hcg still in blood or maybe I hadn't miscarried etc...

Anyway pg went smoothly and I now have a gorgeous one year old boy

Didn't have any symtoms with the pg that miscarried - with both my 2 successful pg felt very sick by 7 weeks.

congratulations!

helenhismadwife · 20/03/2007 11:04

no problems spaceman,

I found that I worried a lot more after the miscarriage it was such a shock to me, I had 5 problem free pregnancies before it.

I found the miscarriage association website really helpful, I still get upset sometimes now I dont think you ever forget but you do come to accept it.

Muminfife · 20/03/2007 11:04

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Spaceman · 20/03/2007 11:28

Thanks for your reassurance hart2hart. I find that a comfort - especially as I was like you and didn't have any symptoms first time around (apart from exhaustion) but do have now. I had spotting with the miscarriage pregnancy and I didn't think that was a good sign, although the experts say it's a normal thing (implantation and all that). With my first I didn't have any show at all. I know my body enough to tell that the spots of blood meant the little bean was struggling to hang on.

helenhismadwife; you have five children?? I know where to come for advice then.. I think you're right, I felt really positive after the mc (before I knew about the pg now) and thought things would be alright in the long run, but it is going to be in there. I just hope I don't equate my DH's b'day with it year after year!!

Muminfife; That is gutting what you said about packing for Greece. It's the stuff you have to deal with on top of the shock that is so hard - like the bleeding for days on end and putting away the maternity clothes. I had bought a couple of tops in my excitement and we moved my daughter into a bigger room to make space in the nusery room. Of course she's got a nice new room now and that's a good thing, but at the time all our friends and family had guessed and kept dropping hints about why we were doing the decorating - I had the mc right in the middle of the change-over.

I'm so glad the holiday was a good rememdy after all though! It makes you see things in context I suppose.

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mumto3girls · 20/03/2007 11:40

Hi Spaceman and everyone else...can I offer you congratulations all you pg ladies?

I should be 7 weeks pg now but I am sadly going through a mc ( my 5th).
This was picked up on a scan as I was losing a tiny bit of blood and I also felt woied as I had no symptoms.

I had two dd's and then 4 mcs followed my dd3...we wanted a sibling fo her close to her age and so tried for no.4 six months ago. I was elated when finally got a bfp but did always feel uneasy ( not just down to my histoy which doesn't help) but just scared that I ha no symptoms...
I'd love to get pg next month...that is in fcat what happened when I had dd3...I had a mc on 21/6 and peiods stated again exactly one month later on 21/7...i got a bfp that month. Wish me luck again!!

Good Luck to eveyone else too!

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Spaceman · 20/03/2007 12:31

You must feel terrible - I'm so sorry to hear your news. That's so much to take in and I hope you are managing to bear up. I suppose the hope is that you did actually get pg again after so many disappointments, which goes to show how random it all is. I know what you mean about wanting to have a sibling for you DD. I'm the same as my DD is 2.6 and we wanted to have another one before she was three (we started TCC in September last year). Every month that went by I kept thinking of the age gap growing, but hopefully if all goes well for me this time DD will only be 3.3.

I hope you also manage to conceive again quickly - I'm sure you will and it'll be a strong-un just like your other girls.

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helenhismadwife · 20/03/2007 12:38

spaceman I have 6 now and that is it no mroe for me I think I have done my bit now do the occasional bank shift when I can to keep my registration up to date

mumto3girls · 20/03/2007 19:16

Thanks Spaceman. I really hope so. I'm sick of people assuming that if you already have children then having mcs doesn't bother you...(noone on here btw).

We feel the loss of every potential baby the same whether i's our first or last...

Good Luck with your pgy!

Jossiejump · 20/03/2007 23:19

Hiya
I have 2 DS, have had 3 m/cs the last of which was on 17th Feb, and I got a BFP yesterday!! Am really scared and don't want to believe it too much. (I know it wasn't residual hormones, due to hospital tests and a pg test I did last week which was BFN.
I agree that m/cs are just as bad when you have children already, but you feel like you should be apologising for taking it so much to heart. I never thought anything would go wrong when I had my boys.

helenhismadwife · 21/03/2007 09:12

CONGRATULATIONS Jossiejump [smile}

Mumto3girls I know what you mean about people thinking its easier when you have children already, the 'at least you have the others' comments and 'you know you can have babies' and the classic well it wasnt a proper baby yet etc etc yes but I wanted the baby I have lost as well.

From the minute you know you are pregnant you are expecting a baby not a bunch of cells

Jossiejump · 21/03/2007 10:00

Completely agree Helen, I think I've heard all of those comments over my 3 m/c, and the unforgettable, "well at least you can have another one" (said after my first m/c, then I m.cd twice more

lissielou · 21/03/2007 10:14

when i was pg with ds i had some bleeding at 7w went for a scan and it showed a 5w sac, it didnt occur to me that there might be something wrong! since ds was born in april (i was 5w pg) ive had 3mcs and 1 ep. i miss that blind faith that everything will be ok in the end!

mumto3girls · 21/03/2007 10:29

Congatulations JossieJump!!!

MrsMcJnr · 22/03/2007 11:49

Thanks Spaceman ? we have been busy but ovulation is proving elusive! maybe my body just isn?t ready yet? Thing is, it took us 8 cycles to get a BFP so in addition to wondering if I can have a healthy baby, I?m worried that it?ll take me a while to fall too. Hence the desire to make the most of the MC fertile time, myth or not!

Congratulations MuminFife!! That?s amazing! ? if I OVd 1 ½ weeks after MC, I will?ve missed my slot as I was still bleeding then so wanted to wait until that had stopped.

And to you Hart2Hart

Wishing you lots and lots of luck this cycle Mumto3girls, sorry to hear what you have been through

Congratulations again Jossie! Spoken to you on another thread!

mumto3girls · 22/03/2007 15:21

Hi again all - thanks for the kind thoughts. What a terrible cruel irony that today, knwing that I have miscarried, I was hoping to get a clear negative on a HPT. Instead ( after all the months of hoping and praying to see one) I got a positive straight away ...it just seems like a nasty joke.

The EPU say that a HPT can show positive for weeks after...have to have another blood test to confirm that hormone levels are dropping at correct rate.

MrsMcJnr · 22/03/2007 15:45

Really feel for you I bought a 2 pack pf pg tests last night to do a test this morning to see if I am getting a ?ive yet but I just couldn?t bring myself to do it, it felt all wrong and I thought either way, it would make me cry so best left until the weekend. I feel I must do one before I OV though just to make sure I get a ?ive so that if I get a +ive soon, I?ll know that it?s real. The EPU said nothing about following up, they told me that the hormones would be around for a while and that it was just a waiting game. I think I read somewhere that the HCG has a 36 hour half life which explains why after 10 weeks, it might take a while to leave my system. I do know exactly how you feel hon, I really do

mumto3girls · 22/03/2007 15:56

Thanks MsMJr..sorry for your loss ..I had blood test on Fri after scan showed gestation sac and nothing else...should have been 6 weeks...
The results were 1600...then went back sunday and they were 1400...have to go again to make sure they have dropped significantly ...

MrsMcJnr · 22/03/2007 16:06

Hope this all ends soon for you that is one of the worst things I think, the prolonging of the agnony!

mumto3girls · 22/03/2007 16:08

Yes... the indignity...the pain..the messiness...the heartache and not even being able to have sex right now....

MrsMcJnr · 22/03/2007 16:24

I know but many of those will pass very soon I hope.

charlottegeorgiaolivermums · 22/03/2007 16:39

Spaceman
Also feel almost the same day as I had a miscarriage.
Never had the tests you have had but when I feel again I did question whether I'd miscarried or not, they did a scan and yes I had and this was a new pg. Husband asked how the hell it happened and the widwife went down the line of you slept with your wife and.... She then said that because I'd been pg and lost the baby that the womb had been all ready and the body starts to prepare so if it ends the body is already ready to go so you full so much easilier she said that my hormone levels where still higher than normal so this helped.
It appears that a very large number of women full pg within a month of a miscarriage.
Congrats spaceman

MrsMcJnr · 22/03/2007 16:55

What an amazing story! I so hope I fall easily this time, it took me 8 cycles to get the pregnancy I've just lost

hotchoc · 22/03/2007 18:58

hi all been lurking around the last wee while, so exciting to know that is totally possible to become pregnant again so soon after a m/c. i am trying to work out ovulation and when to expect a period. do you count the m/c as the day you had some spotting or when the heavy stuff kicked in? sorry about the terminology!!! guess you just need to wait and see.
feeling a lot better most of the time now, have wobbly moments every time i hear of someone due in october, would have been 12 weeks now and letting everyone know. m/c started on 25 feb
good to feel like others understand what i've been through and the chats answer lots of questions for me so thanks everyone, hotchocxx

mumto3girls · 22/03/2007 20:54

Hi Hotchoc - sory about your loss. Good luck with tying again - pehaps we should start our own trying after mc gang?

MrsMcJnr · 23/03/2007 10:59

Hi Hotchoc ? sadly, we are in exactly the same position as you know, but it?s nice not to be going through it alone

I have read that you count the first day of MC bleeding as CD1, not sure if that includes spotting or not but I thought not as for me anyway, I had that quite a bit throughout the 10 weeks I was pg and the MC only happened when the real bleeding got started. I?ve also read elsewhere that you can expect a period between 6 and 8 weeks after a MC and that sometimes it can take a while for ovulation to happen after a MC so there seems to be quite a few conflicting pieces of advice out there.

I have been temping again since 10/3 (which coincidentally would also be cd10 if I counted from the first proper bleed) and I am still waiting for ovulation. We have been putting in the effort but are beginning to get knackered!

I feel exactly the same as you, each day is different and I don?t know how I?ll feel from one to the next emotionally. Physically, I feel fine really but I have bad skin, not just on my face which is quite unusual for me, I?m getting the greasy hair again and I generally feel lardy and unattractive, it might be the hormones tailing off, who knows!

I would have been 12 weeks now too Thing to remember I guess is that the worst is surely over, I wouldn?t want to repeat the last 3 weeks for anything Keep the hope and I look forward to us being pg together again in happier times

Hello Mumto3girls ? you too, look forward to being a bump gang!