Hi ladies,
Sorry for both your losses. It's been 5 weeks and 3 days since my D&C at 10 weeks and I'm still having very faint positives. I've been scanned twice to check for retained products and they couldn't find anything of concern, also had 48 hour bloods done two weeks ago and the numbers were going down slowly, so they are satisfied it's nothing serious. They want me to test again next Sunday and report back to see if they can discharge me once it's finally negative. I think it will be by then, but it doesn't give me much in the way of knowing when my period will come. I had a chemical in January and it was over so quick, I tested negative within a few days, I thought it would be quicker this time too.
I've not had a period yet, but noticed two days ago some egg white cm, then ovulation pain. I did two ovulation tests yesterday and two today, and they're climbing towards a peak. I realise LH tests can give false positives while there's still HCG in your system, but I did an ovulation test a week ago to see if there was any difference between HCG test and LH, and the LH test looked a lot fainter, though still obviously picking up hormones.
I can't be 100% sure if it's ovulation or not, but I'm on the fence about what to do. On the one hand, I'm 35 and still trying to conceive first baby after two losses, so don't feel we have time to wait. A few weeks ago I felt like I never wanted to be pregnant again, it felt like life had come to an abrupt stop and the grief was horrific, but now having a living baby is all I can think about.
All the advice is to wait until you've had a period, though the midwives told me it's more of a preference for dating purposes and perfectly possible to have a healthy pregnancy if you fall before that. It's a weird one. I feel guilty for feeling like I want to move on so quickly, but sad at the thought of not trying tomorrow. My husband is away until tomorrow for work and we've talked about whether we will try when he gets back (looks like peak will be tomorrow) and he feels the same.
It's so hard to predict all this stuff and then comes the emotional side of it when it does happen. What are your plans @Jenroxy5?