TTC after MC - Jan/Feb 2021 (Thread 17)

[PumpkinEverything]

A new thread for those trying to conceive after miscarriage.

Have tried to tag as many people as possible!
@Bellabubble
@Pancakes7
@TheDaydreamBelievers
@bez91
@NatJ24
@NatNoo96
@ELMcg
@RichmondLady1981
@susiebluebell
@Garman
@RS2609
@bumptobean
@bubblybrit
@PrettyPinkPansies

@Strawberry08 sorry I have no idea how I get to my private messages. I'm using the app, do you mind telling me how I do this 😂. I'm going to hold off until Sunday and if it's still like this then I can be confident x

@PrettyPinkPansies top right corner of the screen there is a user icon, click on that then private messages x

@Strawberry08 thank you! Just seen it, I really appreciate you doing that ❤️ hopefully I have only just implanted and the tests are picking up something suuuuper faint. This TWW is so stressful! I've became obsessed since using OPKS! It normally doesn't cross my mind to test until a few days before! X

Can someone please tell me what NCT friends are? 😂 I have seen this so much and I don’t understand what it means 🙈

@PumpkinEverything NCT is the National Childbirth Trust, they're basically a parenting charity but run paid antenatal classes so when people refer to their NCT friends generally other parents they met at antenatal classes. We did one when pregnant, the course was crap tbh but met 5 other couples we still keep in touch with 3 years later.

Thanks @bez91 that makes sense now 😂

Has anyone else had weird cycle long symptoms post-mc? After my most recent period (which was weird and lasted 8 days, but I know that seems common) my breasts have been hurting pretty consistently (and I'm obviously not pregnant!). It's been two cycles now since the miscarriage so could it still be that? Sore breasts was the pregnancy symptom that took longest to fade initially.

MMC last March/April, really hoping this is out month, currently 5dpo

@vitaminb33 Yes since my mmc in July. I've been trying painful breasts occasionally, nausea and migraine every month when it's my AF.

@ttcrainbowbaby1 I'm 5DPO today I think. So we're at the same stage. Fingers crossed for us both. 🤞🏻🌈

@vitaminb33 welcome, so sorry you're here.

I managed to not test this morning, so I'll be testing again tomorrow hopefully with good news 🤞🏼

@Pancakes7 @ttcrainbowbaby1 I'm 5 dpo today too!! Here's to another loooong and slow week for us. Keeping everything crossed for us all🤞🏼

@Ra1nb0w85 @ttcrainbowbaby1 Aw nice we're all at the same stage. It would be amazing if we all got BFP's 🤞🏻🌈🤞🏻🌈🤞🏻

@PrettyPinkPansies Well done not testing today. Good luck for tomorrow. So you'll be 12DPO tomorrow right? That should give you a better idea 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@Ra1nb0w85 @ttcrainbowbaby1 when are you planning on testing?

Morning ladies! I'm losing the will over here on day 6 of flashing smiley on clearblue on CD15. I really expected a static today and I am not convinced I haven't already ovulated! Feel like throwing the thing in the bin 😂 going to give it a few more days of testing I think or until I run out of strips. @NatJ24 any static for you yet?

@ELMcg you sound like me the other day. I remembered I had missed a test at cd13. Have you missed any? Or it could be it was too low to register but already happened

@ELMcg it's frustrating isn't it. Keep going though, i waited until CD19 one cycle to get my peak 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Pancakes7 no not missed any, in fact have tested twice a day since flashing smiley came. Although I'm not convinced with my evening ones as I can't hold a pee for more than a few hours during the day!
Just so frustrating, according to my app I would ovulate today based on my cycle pre MC but I have read you can end up ovulating late after MC so guess that could be me! We are going to continue to DTD over the weekend in the hope I'm covered and I'll keep testing until I run out of strips, but I'm honestly inclined to not track next month as it's just a bit annoying not getting a peak!

@bez91 thanks for the reassurance, I'll keep going this cycle! Just getting tired of it 😂

Hi @ELMcg I am still getting flashing smiley too! It is frustrating. The only thing keeping me going with it is that on the month that I got pregnant (but MC) I didn't get the static smiley until CD20!!! The difference is though that I was getting the blank circle for longer that cycle and didn't get the flashing one until later than this.
I was really expecting to ovulate late this month going off that cycle and being post MC but just didn't expect the flashing one so early. Definitely keep doing the evening testing while you have strips because it was the evening I got my static last time after a morning flashing one. Hopefully you get your static one over the next few days, keep going!! 🤞 I'm just going to keep going too as I do think I ovulate later 🙂

@Pancakes7 usually I wait until 11-12dpo but this month I'm really struggling as the 7th Feb will be a year since we found out we were almost 6 weeks pregnant with the baby we lost. I feel a lot of pressure this month as it feels like I'm in parallel to myself last year. I'm going to start testing at 8dpo which I know is so early, but I just don't even care this month. I just want to know so I can get on with this cycle.

When will you begin testing?

I used clear blue this month and only had 1 flashing smiley before a static. I looked online and saw most women do actually get a significant amount of flashing smileys, maybe take a cheapie to see where you're at ?

Thanks @Pancakes7 however I've had some strange coloured discharge that was egg white? But it was tinged as if with a bit of blood. So I think it might be AF on her way :( I think it might be a TMI to post a pic?

@ELMcg hold out! Remember I had ten days of flashing! I went back to just testing once a day in the end as I was wasting all the sticks

@ELMcg @NatJ24 I find it can be a bit of a guessing game with the Clearblue especially post MCs and if your cycle can be irregular anyway (mine is) and seem to ovulate all over the place. My last cycle I ovulated really early CD12 and if I'd have started testing when the guidance said at CD11 (based on my average of a 31day cycle) I'd have probably missed it 🤦🏼‍♀️ luckily I started testing at about CD7 and will do the same this month just incase I ovulate early again. FX for your static smiley soon ELMcg 🤞🏼