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TTC after pregnancy loss in the second trimester

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pcbrb · 07/07/2025 09:20

Hello, I had a loss on april this year (23+2) due to cervix incompetence, suspicion of extreme early onset pre-eclampsia and complications after a rescue cerclage done in the week 21+2 (I had a hematome after the stitch, which probably infected and started causing the contractions). Our baby Noah was born alive, 30 cm, 520 g, but died after 19 minutes (we decided with the doctors that we would do palleative care instead of trying to keep him alive, cause he was just too young and not enough developed). I am so sad and know that nothing can replace our little Noah but I am also craving to be pregnant again and bring a baby home.

The waiting game is the worst thing... We want to wait at least four months to try again, so we plan to TTC again in august this year. But I am really anxious about the whole process (will we get pregnant right away? will we have to wait long and have fertility problems? will the baby stick once we get pregnant? will I have again complications? will I have an extreme preterm labor again?) and the list goes on...

So I was looking for a thread here to have support. With the last pregnancy I found a thread for the august babies and it was a tremendous support. We then had a whatsapp group and were really closed friends and supported each other.

Once we lost our little Noah I left the group cause I did not have our baby with us and the group was super hard to keep up with... but I thought that for this journy of TTC again and if eventually getting pregnant, that I wanted to have a support group again, and if the group is specially of moms with rainbows babies, which also have gone through a second trimester loss, then I thought would be even better, cause we would understand each other and be in a similar place.

Sorry for the long message and sorry for the losses of every girl reading through these lines... But I hope so find some of you here who want to support each other through this journey and hopefully we will have our next pregnancy soon :)

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Harleyquinn69 · 08/07/2025 11:05

Sending you love and strength I just loss my little boy Cody his name was in May. He was born asleep, I to am completely craving a baby. I do have other children he wasn’t my first but either way it doesn’t make it any easier. I am scared to go again but know I need to have another baby not to replace him but to try and help heal my heart. I’ve had two periods since losing him and they’ve been roughly around the same time so I think that’s good I’m guessing.. however I’ve been tacking and I’m getting a positive OPK so must be ovulating and we dtd regular but just not catching so not sure what to do if I can do anything else? I’m pretty calm through the cycle up until like 8dpo then I start getting my hopes up and then feel down when AF turns up which sucks!

how are you feeling? Does your partner have any thoughts? Xx

pcbrb · 08/07/2025 11:43

Hello @Harleyquinn69I am sorry for your loss and thanks for sharing…Noah and Cody are now playing together in heaven 🫶🏼 I also send you strength and love 🙏🏼. So you decided to try right away after the loss? I guess that even though we ovulate and get our periods, that our body needs some time to regulate and recover after a birth. For example after a birth we get scarring in our uterus and lining, our body minerals and vitamins are not full and I guess that with the time, all of that will get better and have the perfect needs for a good implantation and further pregnancy (that’s just what my doctors have told me). But I can totally understand that you want to be pregnant as early as possible.. for us is the same, that we wish we could be pregnant sooner, but we want to wait until August to give my body time to have a proper recovery. In which Cycle day are you or DPO? I’m today un DPO 8 and I just want that the time flies and the month comes when we will officially try :) I’m tempted to start trying the next cycle, but that would be end of July and not in August.. so I guess I will wait and start officially trying after the next cycle when we are in August :)

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Harleyquinn69 · 08/07/2025 12:04

Hi,

you worded that so lovely, I hope they are having fun whilst they wait for us. I think if I’m honest I was rushed in and out of hospital I had a really poor experience I was told I had “wet myself” when I expressed my waters had just gone in the waiting area and I had been sat there 3 hours already because I had pains and bleeding but no one scanned or examined me and then I started to deliver and shouted for help an he was born bless him. I went to have a D&C after as I had lost a lot of blood I had a transfusion and the placenta got stuck. Since being discharged the morning after 10am I haven’t heard from anyone at all because he’s classed as a miscarriage because of gestation they said.

it makes a lot more sense how you have worded it though so I do appreciate that!
I just got my period of Saturday just gone so it’s a whole reset for me now.

I completely get what you mean I hope it happens fast for you as well as me! X

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