How long did it take to fall pregnant after mc?

[2020wish]

Confirmed mc this morning :( 7 weeks. We want to start trying as soon my ovulation sticks still me I can. Was wondering how long it took others to conceive again and was it a good outcome x

Sorry for your loss. I had a mc at six weeks at the start of January and have just found out I'm pregnant again - this is my third cycle after the mc. Hoping this one sticks!

I am so sorry to hear about your miscarraige. I lost my first pregnancy at 7 weeks in Sept last year. That was my 5th cycle of trying.
I am still trying to get pregnant again. I wish you all the luck in the world xxx

@2020wish I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. Sending love ❤️

I had a MC in December and have been trying again since. I’ve been on TTC after miscarriage threads on here since January. I’m not pregnant again yet myself, and to be honest I’ve seen such a mixed bag on the threads I honestly don’t think there’s any answer that will help you just now.

Some women on the threads fall again static but away before having a period, some of those miscarry again, some don’t. Some take a few months, some take 6 months, some have been trying for up to a year afterwards.

I think all we can do after a MC is do the best we can on our own TTC journey. I heard so many stories of people getting pregnant again straight away, that it upset me so much when I didn’t turn out to be one of them.

It happened once for you lovey, it will happen again and it will stick. Try not to focus on a timeline and just trust that you’ll have your baby one day 🌈

*straight away, not static but! Stupid phone 🙈

I'm so sorry OP. I miscarried on 19 March and conceived again 14 days later. Took us 18 months to get pregnant the first time so was a shock.

I'm so sorry OP.

I MC in January (2012) and was too afraid to try again until September of the same year. When I did, I conceived in the first month of trying and had a lovely straightforward pregnancy, I hope that you will too.

Hi OP. Sorry for your loss. Did you have a spontaneous miscarriage or a missed miscarriage? Have you had a scan to check your miscarriage is complete?

Unfortunately it can take a while for your HCG to return to zero after a miscarriage, and your OPKS will still show positive even with quite a small amount of HCG in your system. OPKs can't tell the difference between LH and HCG.

I'm not sure exactly how high your LH needs to be for the OPK to turn positive - higher than the level of HCG that turns a pregnancy test positive, but still less than 100 I think. After my previous miscarriages it has taken a couple of weeks for my HCG to get from the low 100s back to zero, even when the initial fall from the much higher numbers was much quicker.

For this reason I wouldn't start trying to use OPKs again until you get a completely negative pregnancy test.

It is possible to ovulate with a low amount of HCG still in your system after a miscarriage. I'm pretty sure this happened to me at least twice. If this happens to you and you have been trying in the meantime then you will not necessarily know when you ovulated or when to test. If you think this is likely to stress you out then the simplest solution is to wait for your first period and then start trying again and tracking your ovulation after that. If you don't want to wait for your period, then just keep trying, and if you haven't had your period by four weeks from the date of your negative pregnancy test, do a test. If it's negative, wait another week to see if you get your period, and if you don't, test again.

I recommend buying a box of cheap strip tests from Amazon to track your HCG back to zero. The easy@home ones are very sensitive.

Thank you for the replies. My scan today showed a complete miscarriage and I was advised that I should expect negative tests this week and I’d they are still showing positive to come back for a scan as they would then be concern of an etopic. But if all is ok and tests start showing negative she said my uterus and ovaries look fine and she has no concerns. I have bought cheap opks and hcg sticks on amazon and bbt thermometer for the brand Femometer x

I think normally they say to test in three weeks. Don't be too surprised if you're still testing positive in a week, your HCG at 7 weeks would have been pretty high so it might take longer to go down.

Hey, I'm so sorry for your loss. We lost our little girl at 24 weeks in January and it's been one hell of a journey ever since. We started TTC as soon as my period came back (although we were half hoping we'd fall pregnant again before that happened, unfortunately not) and I'm now on day 1 of my 3rd cycle, and feeling pretty sad about it - which is how I came across your thread! No luck for us just yet.

I've been reading quite a few stories this morning and it just seems to be a mixed bag of results, no luck, rhyme or reason as to why some fall pregnant quicker than others! A lot of. the advice I have seen though, is try not to put a deadline on yourself, it only causes a lot of heartache. I had it in my head I would be pregnant before I started back to work, but I start back tomorrow and here we are! :( It's absolutely rubbish but time is going to pass regardless, and the most we can do is try our best to enjoy ourselves.

Hope you're feeling okay today, please be kind to yourself, and good luck for the future :) x

I recently had a MMC in December, we fell again on third cycle - only recently found out. So still early days.

In that time I worked REALLY hard on getting myself back together. I had a month off work when it happened, went back and I was not ok (I have quite a responsible and stressful job). So took another month off.
We fell when I was healthy again, when I wasn’t all consumed with getting pregnant and when I was feeling brighter.

I’ve heard so many people say ‘it will happen when you stop trying’ and I was like ‘how the hell is that even going to work’ i wouldn’t say it was true fully for me, but it did happen when my life started to have another focus - exercising again, looking for new opportunities at work etc. I know it’s not helpful though, because I know how that deep sadness feels and how hard it can feel to climb that mountain!

Nearly a year but I was 42 going on 43 so age probably a factor. I have a beautiful new baby now and it feels like it was all for the best. Good luck.