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OopsImDoingItAgain · 26/03/2022 21:09

I very recently lost my baby at 17 weeks Sad I'm aware it's not been a week yet and my emotions and hormones are through the roof I'm not sleeping or eating well, my milk came in and I'm in lots of pain with that, I'm bleeding heavily still. There is a lot going on. I read online about how fertile you are in the three months following a miscarriage and it's just made me feel desperate to try and get pregnant again in that time. I so badly just want my baby back. Which is impossible. But I want to be pregnant still, I don't want to not be. Every part of my logical brain is saying wait 3 months atleast, get the post mortem results, go for a smear as my one last year had issues and I had to miss my yearly call back due to being pregnant and I can now have one in 3 months. I was also going to arrange a private scan in a fertility clinic to look at my PCOS and see whether this could of caused what happened. I just get so panicky when I think of waiting as then I've missed this fertile 3 months. What if it takes years. I want my kids close in age. I was so happy about the 3 year gap. It was bigger then we planned but over time I thought it would be perfect. Now it's all gone Sad

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TiredyMcTired · 26/03/2022 21:18

It sounds to me like you are feeling very raw right now, which is not surprising given what you have been through… I’m so sorry that you lost your baby. Do you have access to any counselling or grief services? That may help you to work through your feelings and help you recover. It is difficult to make decisions when you are going through the loss of a baby, so give yourself time and grieve your loss. Sending virtual hugs to you

Holly60 · 26/03/2022 21:23

I’m so so sorry for the loss of your baby. If I was advising my daughter I would say definitely wait to get your smear done - you want to be well when you do conceive and have your much wanted baby.

There is no rush- there is absolutely nothing to say that you won’t get pregnant again quickly when you start trying. And you know what, even if it does take a while, in the grand scheme of things it won’t matter. In fact, you’ll be glad it took the exact amount of time it did, because you’ll just be in love with the baby that results, and so grateful that it was THAT particular baby born, if you see what I mean.

OopsImDoingItAgain · 26/03/2022 21:43

Thank you Sad Yesterday I was saying I think I'm too traumatised to even try again and now I feel absolutely desperate to be pregnant again. Earlier I went out for the first time since it happened, just to the shop, and I saw someone heavily pregnant and I just got so upset about how bad I want to be pregnant still and my head was like you can be this might work out despite the fact I have delivered my baby who was very much not with us anymore. It's like I can't connect the dots and I'm in agony over what's happened but I'm still in denial and letting myself think otherwise. I don't know if that makes sense I don't know how to describe it but that's what happened. I feel like my body has failed me completely. Failed the baby. The milk and the cramps and the blood just a raw painful constant reminder. I feel like the world around me stopped for a few days but now everyone's going back to normal, and I'm just stuck feeling like my heart and baby have been ripped out Sad

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