TTC after miscarriage April/May 2020

[DisneyMummySince2010]

Hello,

I’ve been on the Jan, Feb, March and April TTC after miscarriage threads and I’m hoping so much this will be the month for rainbow babies 🌈

My story so far ... I have one DS who is 9yrs, will be 10 this summer. My hubby and I have been TTC number 2 since September 2018. We had our first natural MC in May 2019 at 11 weeks and then a ectopic PG in October 2019, I lost my left tube with this pregnancy too. I recently had a chemical PG in Feb 2020.

I would love some company on this TTC journey. It can be such a stressful and emotional experience and the Mumsnet threads have been such a source of comfort for me these last few months.

I’m currently on my TWW so fingers crossed 🤞 and baby dust to all the hopeful parents out there 💛

Thank you @DisneyMummySince2010! I have some cheapies but also do have a new pack of clear blue I bought but only used one before we started the IVF so yes I think that strategy is perfect, also a lovely Mumsnet lady from the IVF thread I was on previously with the exact same dates who I got v friendly with has offered to send me some more clear Blue’s she didn’t use so I will def do that 🤞🏻Will start using the cheaps around day 10 maybe to get my head round it! Just trying to get used to apps now!

What cycles are everyone else on? It’s so hard sending virtual social distancing hugs to all 🌈🥰xx

Hi ladies! I am trying to conceive baby 2 after miscarriage in March. I'm very lucky to have a 1 year old but it took 5 years to conceive her! Had help or Clomid last time but after surprise natural pregnancy last month, we're keen to start TTC again.
I've been using opks since BFN but no peak yet just highs. Current CD 27

Morning! And that’s good on the smileys @DisneyMummySince2010 🤞🏻🤞🏻

@DisneyMummySince2010 & @terribleimagination can I ask about the B6 please I take it it’s a vitamin? Do you take alongside folic acid? I’m only taking folic acid currently but want to do all to help. Also with one day left of amazon prime that’s not through hubby’s work before cancellation if I can get it there great! Do I need anything else?? I have IC OPKs, a thermometer coming, some HCG tests, got some CB tests from before 🤔anything else?

Also my AF Seems to just be spotting again.so don’t know if this is CD2 or just a really light one I hate the guessing argh

@Minster2012 Yep it’s Vitamin B6! It’s meant to balance hormone levels, which can help with extending luteal phase. I’m sure it’s no miracle answer to give us all that BFP, but I’ve heard good things from taking a 100mg dose every day. It’s deffo helped me in the past for the balancing hormones part, and easing bloating and water retention from PMS, so I’m giving the higher dose a go!

Great thank you @terribleimagination might order some, thanks

What other vitamins do ppl take separately instead of pregnacare please? I’m loathed go take that in case of lengthening a cycle but my doctor says I likely need iron, vitamin D & basically all of them 😬

Hi everyone!! Hope you don't mind me joining in

I have recently had a miscarriage at around 7 weeks, it all happened naturally and after my 6th hcg blood test today I got the call to say my hcg was down to 29 and all I need to do is take a pregnancy test in 2 weeks.

I haven't had a period yet but we are DTD plenty just in case we're in with a chance. Bit unsure what my body is doing, I could be sure I'm going to ovulate very soon as plenty of EWCM over the last two days which usually for me is spot on but it surely can't be possibly with a HCG of 29 just yesterday..
But I guess we will wait and see!

@Minster2012 I take the Seven Seas trying for a baby, omega 3 and now the 100mg of B6 (there’s a small amount of B6 in the seven seas tablets too).

Morning,

I’m in such a grumpy mood, today is my 4th day of flashing smileys!!

How is everyone else today?

Oh and I ordered seven seas & omega 3 at 12.45am having managed to find a home delivery supermarket slot at 11pm it then took me that long as kept getting kicked out thank you @TerribleImagination
Not a great start to the day

@DisneyMummySince2010 is that possible?

@Minster2012

When I started TTC my GP told me to take folic acid and vitamin D. After my second miscarriage I had a load of blood tests done and my vitamin D levels were a bit borderline. Anything under 30 is considered deficient, and over 40 is better for TTC. Mine came back at 31 after a long hot summer where I'd spent a lot of time outside, so I decided to supplement. I have taken 4000 IU/day throughout the winter and am currently continuing because I'm not spending that much time outside due to lockdown. If you have a garden and are sitting in it all day then this might not be necessary for you, but I don't. I have about enough left for another month or so, and then in mid May I will probably switch to a lower dose and try to spend more time in the sun.

I have been tested for the MTHFR mutation and apparently don't have it, but I have decided to supplement with high dose methylfolate (1000 mg/day) instead of regular folic acid anyway.

My gynaecologist has also prescribed high dose vitamin E which I take in combination with pentoxifylline (but originally she only prescribed the vitamin E). I take 1000 mg/day. This is supposed to try and help my uterine lining, which is apparently thin. The medical evidence for this is quite sketchy, from what I can make out, but I'm happy to take it because according to the book "It Starts With the Egg", vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant which may also have benefits for egg quality. If it can do something to help both my lining and my eggs, that would be great.

I also take 600 mg/day ubiquinol (CoQ10) and sometimes I also take an effervescent vitamin C (1000 mg).

I take all these separately because there is no prenatal vitamin which contains them all in anything like these quantities. I have thought about taking a prenatal or a multivitamin to make sure I'm getting some of the other vitamins and minerals which aren't in the supplements I'm taking separately, such as Omega 3, zinc, magnesium, selenium etc. But I don't really want to overload my system with supplements. Also, the Pregnacare pregnancy vitamins I bought before my second miscarriage contain L-arginine, which I don't want to take at this point because although it is apparently good for the womb lining, it can be detrimental to egg quality, and I'm worried my eggs are already a bit crap.

So yeah, I think maybe I will just try and get the other nutrients through my diet.

trots off to buy brazil nuts

@peperthecat that’s all really interesting thank you!

I’ve never been tested for anything TTC wise, we’ve never TTC other than 7 months Last year, when I stopped my treatment it’s really hard to explain but as I’ve had chemo for over 10 years I’ve had to legally be on contraception. During that time we did IVF to get embryos & they told me my AMH/eggs were pretty rubbish anyway but I got pregnant via using one of our frozen ones in Feb but my lining was just below their minimum.

I’m now nearing 36 & with the IVF clinics shut might as well TTC but worries about what they said

I have vitiligo as a side effect of my immunotherapy so always wear factor 50 but am outside a lot. I’ve always been told in recent hospital spells all vitamins ok except I’m often short on calcium.

Maybe the ubiquinol might help?
During the IVF I also drank pomegranate juice & ate a Brazil nut a day 😂🤦🏼‍♀️
Oh the things we do!!

You’re welcome @Minster2012! I hope they help 🙂

Hey ladies can I jump on pls? I MC(miscarriage)on the 1st April (nasty april fools!) and the bleeding was only like a light period for a week unlike the MC(miscarriage)I had 3 yrs ago before my DD(darling daughter)was born...I had cramps with that and horrendous bleeding! With my 2 MCs though I had hardly any symptoms so is this a recurring sign with u all that something isnt right or just me? I had really sore boobs with my daughter.
I'm also fed up coz I was excited to come 37 so aware time is ticking and just found out 2 of my Mummy friends are expecting their 2nd babies around the time I'd be due so as happy as I am for them I'm also heartbroken.
Hoping all you lovely ladies get your BFP(big fat positive)'s soon..me included 🤞🤞🤞

@Melds22 Hiii! So sorry to hear about your mc, I also had a mc on the 1st April. I had slight spotting on the 27th at 7 weeks so had the blood tests and scan at the EPU and was given the bad news and the bleeding didn't start until the 1st.

I had a little nausea this time but nothing that bothered me too much and it disappeared as quickly as it came, probably only lasted a few days and was completely gone in the week leading up to my mc.
But with my daughter I only had mild symptoms, just a bit of nausea I just ignored as I didn't find out until 9 weeks pregnant so I'm unsure!

Just curious, have your hcg levels dropped to 0 yet? Mine were 29 on my last blood test but 5 days later I'm still getting a very faint line on a hpt. I know it can take a while but it's feeling like forever

@ttcin2020 wow sounds exactly the same as me! My bloods were super high the 1st time I went in then had lowered drastically the 2nd time and they said to do a test 10 days later which I did and was negative! Cant remember the exact numbers. How old's your little girl? I'm seriously starting to wonder if it will ever happen!

@Melds22 my daughter is 7 now and asks every day when she will have a baby brother or sister! We'd only been trying since December so not very long so hoping we'll be lucky again soon

I hope it happens for you soon too!I Fingers crosses for you, I keep getting told you're most fertile after you mc so it gives me some peace but also really gets my hopes up and I don't want to be devastated when my period arrives whenever that will be 😬

Yeah my friend miscarried start of Jan and got preggo end of Jan without a period so there is hope but I worry my age is a big blocker..who knows. Aww well I'm sure u will be fine if you got pregnant that quickly, took us 5 months so hope not this time!

Looks like I’ll deffo be waiting for AF in May now... CD16 and no peak OPK yet 🙈 I’m wondering if the extra B6 I’m taking is delaying ovulation?! I’ve never had it this late before... It’s moving in the right direction, with EWCM and flashing smilies, but still waiting for that peak!

Not to be a Debbie downer, but I clung to fhe ‘you’re more fertile after a miscarriage’ thing too after mine, and so far it hasn’t been true for me 😢 I got pregnant 2nd month of trying, but it’s been 4 months since my MC now and I’m still not pregnant... A friend got PG again straight after her MC, but I think some people are just lucky 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s the 6th day of flashing smileys for me!!! So fed up with it 😩
May 5th is a year since my first mc - I’m dreading it. Really thought I’d be expecting again by now 🌈

@DisneyMummySince2010 Same, 6 days too! 😫
Aww I’m so sorry that horrible anniversary is coming up, that’s so tough 😢 I really hope this cycle brings you good news, so that date doesn’t sting as much ❤️

Thanks @TerribleImagination 💛 The end of May is when I would have been due from my ectopic too. It’s so mean the way things work out sometimes. I’m really superstitious and I keep seeing one magpie everywhere, every time I go on my bike or out for a walk and I just think ‘1 for sorrow...’ it just completely sums up my ttc journey for the last 20 months, completely full of sorrow!
Hopefully I’m close to ovulating and it definitely sounds like you’re close to ovulation too!!

How is everyone else getting on this weekend?

@DisneyMummySince2010 Awww your poor thing 😢 May has better bring you amazing news!!

Oh I do the magpie thing too, I’m terrible for it! But last month I had both! For a while kept seeing two and going ‘oooh maybe that’s a nice sign’ but it wasn’t 🤷🏻‍♀️😂 So the solo magpie won’t mean anything for you too either lovey.

I sometimes do a fertility yoga flow and the lady who does it had a really hard time having her baby (multiple miscarriages) and she something that I try and repeat to myself when I’m feeling hopeless... she says to tell yourself ‘I trust that my baby is coming to me’. No time limit, just the trust that it will happen. I know it’s so hard to think that sometimes, but I try and summon that when I’m feeling dark and gloomy ❤️

Hey All,

Okay if I jump in? Just looking for a bit if support since none of my friends have suffered a loss. Have been lurking along these threads for a while.
This is our first month TTC after having a MMC in January. Baby only measured six weeks at my 12 week scan. Was a shock as I was still suffering from morning sickness. (How our body plays tricks on us) Anyway, According to my Flo app, today is my ovulation day but I have been spotting, iv never spotted mid cycle before so I’m a bit worried. This would be my second cycle since the miscarriage so maybe it’s related to that. Or is it ovulation?

Hi @Funsize12 I’m sorry I’m not sure about mid-cycle spotting. I have seen some others on previous threads who have experienced it but not sure if it’s a positive or negative- sorry I’m not more helpful!
Has it gotten heavier today or do you have cramps too?