conceiving again

[southportmum]

i recently suffered a miscarriage at 6 weeks pregnant, ive been told i have to wait 21 days before trying again but im so desperate to just get on with it and try its the only way to move forward, has anyone else had this feeling and if so how long did it take to conceive again..............

Someone i know well miscarried at 6 weeks on 2 sept and had a positive test again on 28 Sept(she had those pre period day testing kits) so it would seem to me that your body can just get straight back on with the process.... Good luck!!

thanks for that

i felt/feel exactly the same.... but i will say, i didn't wait. and i've miscarried again. so this time i'm going to wait for ATLEAST one period before we try again. i think sometimes your body might just need to recover. and if i'm honest, i think my head needed it too. hope this helps a little. good luck!!!

When I mc last year I was told we could ttc again straight away which we did and now have an 8 month old ds

thanks everyone i think its just a case of trying some people are fine some not so lucky, i have 2 lovely boys already so came as a great shock when this pregnancy or should i say the pregnancy i just lost went so wrong.....

After surgery for an ectopic (so not quite the same thing) I was told I could start again as soon as I felt physically and emotionally able. Which was about 4 days later.

My DS (1 year) was concieved 2 weeks after a miscarriage....

I was told we could try again as soon as we were ready, but it was best to wait for the first period for dating reasons. If you get pg before you have a period you won't know when you ovulated after the mc and I think it can be distressing because they could scan and find a less developed pregnancy which could be because of problems or could be because you don't know your dates, IYSWIM. Sorry, not explaining well. We waited and are still trying 3 months on, but it's always taken us 3-4 months in the past. Tbh I needed to recover physically and emotionally, so we were pretty cautious. Good luck with it.

I find this thread really interesting. I was told when they discharged me from hospital yesterday after a failed ERPC (I miscarried by myself just as they were prepping me for surgery!) to wait 1-3 months. Is that for psychological reasons rather than physical reasons then? I think I came to terms with the loss very quickly because I had my suspicions that something wasn't quite right although I was trying very hard to believe that I was wrong. I just think the baby wasn't viable and what happened was inevitable. I have two DSs to keep me busy and in good spirits and they have really helped me see the big picture that life goes on in the midst of this week's devastating news.

Obviously you need to wait until the bleeding stops because it's icky there's an infection risk but I would be inclined to believe that if your body is ovulating then you're ready to get pg again. It took over a year to get pg last time and I'm 35 now. I don't feel that I want to wait 3 months that's for sure. TBH if I got pregnant again right away (not very likely since I won't know when I'm ovulating and age is against me) I think I would be delighted.

Sorry I'm a bit rambly - can't think why . I'm just looking forward to getting through the next week and my recovery then we can get started for Christmas and worry about TTC in the new year.

I was told could try straight away after natural MC, as long as had negative pregnancy test (was advised to test a week after bleeding stopped). I was told there is good evidence that outcomes are no worse if you conceive immediately, although dating may be harder. Unfortunately I think I had already ovulated while still bleeding, so ended up waiting a month anyway.