MC Avengers - Chocolate cake anyone?

[mistlethrush]

I've started a new thread as the old one was full - hope everyone finds their way here OK.

Sorry to hear that ontheup. Good luck perhaps the relaxing about it will help? Come back soon.

Hello Ladies sorry so many people have got their AF's- fingers crossed for next month for you all.

ontheup take care- sometimes a break is what you need. I have found that when you are ttc your life gets put on hold and you feel like you are living in limbo. I feel like I have spent the whole of my 30's living like this. Hope to see you back soon.

hi ladies

I was on here in March/April after my first ever MC.
You all were so lovely and supportive that I wanted to
pop back briefly to announce some great news!!!

3 months after my MC I am now expecting again.
Will be 6 weeks on Saturday. So hurray!

Another lady from this thread ( OddEyes ) who MC'd at the same time as me, is now expecting again in April too! Hurrah!!!

Fingers Crossed this time!

BABY DUST TO EVERYONE!!!!

DungunGirl Congratulations! It always nice to hear good news- gives us all hope. Congratulations to Oddeyes also .

Hi Everyone

Can I join u all please? I have just recently had a mc and I have just finished my 1st af since. If my cycle goes back to normal straight away (hopefully - fingers crossed) I should ovulate sometime around the 22nd...... Have any of u got pregnancy quickly after a mc???

Really want to be pregnant again, might fill the hole in my heart. Thankfully I am lucky enought to have one DD 18 months, without her I think I would have fallen apart.

Congrats DungunGirl! (trying to coat myself in your lucky baby dust )

Welcome munchiesmama sorry you have had to join but you are in the right place. I think there have been a few ladies on here that have fallen pregnant straightaway so good luck.

DungunGirl - Congratulations!! {reaches out to wave, and grab some baby dust!]

dundungirl- congratulations

and welcome to munchiesmama

Congrats dundungirl

Munchiesmama, hello. I'm in pretty much the same boat as you cycle-wise, in that I finished my first post-mc period not long ago. I'm hoping (obv) to get pregnant this cycle. Will keep you posted! We're ttc no1.

However, it's only just dawned on me that this weekend will be my CD9- CD11. Which means I'll probably ovulate... Good news, but I'm away on a girlie weekend, if my cycles are "normal" (have been on minipill, then preg straight away, then mc, so I've no idea what my cycles are). The weekend will be brilliant and hilarious, I wouldn't miss it for the world. But does this mean we'll miss our chance to conceive this month...?
Rats.

Congrats Dungangirl! So glad there are some happy stories this month.

Helen2 sorry things are rubbish at the moment. It does seem to take over, doesn't it?

Joy27 - maybe you can BD straight before and straight after the weekend and enjoy the weekend? Sounds like you deserve it after everything that's happened.

Mistlethrush - I am so sorry to learn about your MP; thanks for explaining.

On another note - I'm just curious - has anyone gone down the Foresight route??

Thanks nauseous- yes I think I do deserve it! Can't wait in fact.
Unfortunately last night I was out all evening then came home to find a very grumpy other half. We had a bicker- although we made up, it was too late and we weren't in the mood. I'm off on my fabulous minibreak later.
However I'm hoping that Thursday night's swimmers might hang around, and I'll be back on Sunday afternoon so... Luckily my boyfriend is totally on board the baby train so he'll be up for doing whatever it takes (what a strain for him )
Actually, have had no sign of any CM at all, so perhaps this weekend isn't when I'll ov.
(Having said that, I didn't seem to have any CM when I got knocked up last time so maybe that's no indication of anything).
Have a great weekend everyone, and I really hope we can make some babies between us. Though obviously not with each other.

"However I'm hoping that Thursday night's swimmers might hang around"

• I meant Wednesday.

Feel very nauseous right now- is that a sign of ovulation? Hopefully not. Want my bod to hang on til Sunday! On second thoughts am probably sick with excitement re minibreak!

hello, am new to this site and sorry to be a bore but would love to know what DS and some of the other acromyms mean...think can figure most of it out, but i am 36, just had two miscarriages in a row, ovulating and conceiving right away, but surprised to miscarry at 7 weeks, then 9 weeks, having had a very unproblematic pregnancy and delivery of my first child nearly five years ago (partner problems meant not having my children closer together!)...my gp took the view that there can't really be a problem since i took a pregnancy to term last time, but i am not so confident and if it happens again i will be very assertive about asking for all manner of tests...but fingers crossed... for us all x

Hi Ponyoni,

Sorry to hear about your recent miscarriages- that must be terribly tough. It seems a lot of women have less than positive experiences with the medical profession when they go through a miscarriage. I had an early miscarriage last month (we're trying to conceive no 1), and it was a very confusing time, made worse by the fact that none of the doctors and nurses I saw seemed to communicate with each other.

I'm sure some of the other members here will be able to advise you on what kind of tests etc you are entitled to, given the fact you've had two miscarriages.

I'm not too hot on acronyms, but thought I'd respond to your post to say hi and welcome, and try to help. The acronyms I do know- and I may have some of them wrong!- are:

DS: Dear/darling Son
DD: Dear/darling Daughter:
DH/DP: As above for Husband/Partner
AF: Aunt Flo- ie a slightly prim way of saying "period"
BFP/BFP: Big Fat Positie/ Big Fat Negative
MC: Miscarriage
TTC: Trying To Conceive

Hi Ponyoni, Sorry you have had to join us. I've had 2 mc in the last few months too.
A third in March last year, and so I've now been referred now to a recurrent miscarriage specialist. I've no idea what to expect when I see her. The appointment is 3 weeks away.

If you get pg again, insist on early scans. Do you have a local EPU at your hosptial? Mine does and is relatively supportive and will take a self referral. I suspect your GP (like mine) will say as you've had a successful pg, that 2 mcs won't be enough for a referral to a specialist yet, but I think if I'd pushed it, he would have. After 3 on the trot though, no pushing was required.

I am back on the 2WW now. 4 BD's over the weekend following +ve OPKs.Am a bit tired now. Although one doesn't count as DH got carried away and forgot where he was supposed to be! IYKWIM! I was quite annoyed at the time. In fact I was close to tears. Possibly an overreaction, but I don't like to "waste" the stuff. It needs to go in the right place!

Hi all,

I've been on here once before but don't get much time to come on MN these days, but I'm just looking for a bit of advice...

We are TTC#1 (I'm 34) and amazingly managed to conceive in the first month, but unfortunately had a MC at 5 weeks, which was 2 weeks ago.

After conferring with the Dr at the hospital and my GP, they saw no problem with trying again straight away, once the bleeding stopped, so we started BDing last weekend.

But what I wanted to ask, does anyone know whether your "cycles" continue as before. For eg. my last AF started 18th June so if I hadn't become PG I would have been expecting AF on 23rd July (I've got a 35 day cycle - bummer!) and then I would be expecting my next week next Wednesday, 27th August. Does it work like that or does it mess your cycle up completely?

The main reason that I'm asking, is that from when we started officially TTC in June, I kept a diary of when we BDd and then all syptoms (whether phantom or real )... And the week before AF was due, on the Monday, I started getting AF type cramps, which eased off in the afternoon. These turned out to be Implantation cramps with a bit of spotting. This morning, completely out of the blue (as thought it would be way too early and wouldn't happen so quickly after an MC), I started getting AF cramps, but no spotting this time. CM is perfectly normal (I get that a lot all of the time). So basically just wondered if anyone knows how all this normally works.

I'm already determined not to do any testing (especially if I think I'm PG), until I believe I'm further along than I was before I had the MC. I just don't think I could cope with the upset!!

I hope all you girls are Ok. If you're on this thread, then you've obviously been through the mill. Keep your chins up!!

Lots of babydust for you...

xxx

Hello Dawn- I've heard that one rule of thumb is that the day you actually pass the embryo (sorry to be so graphic) can count as CD1. This was true in my case (miscarried first pregnancy at 4-5 weeks in July). But I'm also pretty sure that your first post-MC cycle is totally unpredictable, so I wouldn't rely on any dating at all.

Are the hospital monitoring your HCG levels? Pregnancy hormones can hang around for weeks, so a test could still come up positive even if you're not pregnant (forgive me if you know all this already!). Three weeks after my mc ended, and one day before I had my first period, I was still getting an HCG level of 7, which the nurse said would show up as positive on a HPT.

So I suppose what I'm saying is that, in my opinion, you're right to delay the testing for a few weeks.

Good luck with it all, and sorry you have reason to be here on this thread.

Hi there Joy,

Thanks for the info.

I did a test a couple of days after the MC and it was negative, although the doctor at the hospital did say that my hormone levels were extremely low already and said that I wouldn't need any further blood tests or scans.

I've not had any other PG symptoms at all since then.

From the conversation that I had with my GP, she said that if I did get PG quickly (without AF inbetween MC and new PG) they take the day of the MC as CD1, maybe that's why it works in the way you suggested. I know some people have had AF 3 weeks after MC so I don't know, I guess I'll see what happens.

Thanks for coming back to me though!!

xxx

Bumping this up! Is anyone there?

Anyone else on the 2WW? THink AF due around 30th Aug. Anyone else around the same time? Anyone else obsessing madly over every twinge, visit to the loo wondering whether I am peeing more than normal? Or just me???? Someone come and keep me company!

Hi LadyHelen almost on the 2ww - currently CD13 (DH looking very worried ) and I'm due on 5 Aug...will almost certainly be obsessing in about 72 hours!!

Hi girls, can I rejoin? I was on here after my first m/c in Jan 08, recognise some of your names I was hoping after I left to TTC with avengance that I would never be back (in a nice way of course) But unfortunately here I am. My story (short version) I'm 36 trying for my first LO, got pg Dec 07, following some spotting Christmas Day we had an early scan and a missed m/c diagnosed, had ERPC in January. Second BFP 1st July, had reassurance scan at 7 wks and saw HB, went for dating scan on Monday and found out that beanie had died just after our first scan, had ERPC yesterday. Think I'm still in shock as been holding it together quite well Just waiting for the sh*t to hit the fan and hormones and emotions to kick in big time. Looking forward to getting to know you all

Oh Mollie I am so sorry... I was on the March 2009 thread at first(and u were so lovely to me on there). I am soooooo sorry u have had to go through this again. Thinking of u xx

Mollie I remember you from this thread. So sorry you have had to go through it all again. Take care.

Can I join you please? Had first mc three weeks ago at 9 weeks, it was a huge shock to the system. Have a ds who is just three but longing for a second. Have had a million different messages about when I can ttc again, from the midwife who said, "just do it every other day from now, have sex until your eyes bleed" (!!!) to the one who said 'you must wait at least three months or your uterus won't be ready'. I just wanted to get going straight away, so we have, although I don't think there's any chance of doing it until my eyes bleed, even if I wanted to!!!