Can you ovulate 2 weeks late after a cp?

[Nicolelinda96]

Hi guys. I got my first positive pregnancy test 10 days ago and have subsequently progressed onto strong dye stealers and a 3+ on clear blue today. I’m just confused as clearly my levels are rising quickly, but according to the first day of my cp bleeding I’d be almost 7 weeks now. The clearblue said 2-3 2 days ago.

Surely if I am almost 7 weeks then I should’ve gotten the 3+ sooner? These tests suggest me being nearer 5 weeks. My hcg was always low with the cp, evidenced by it being 30 after 12 hours of heavyish bleeding and only getting faint positive tests (extremely faint on a 25miu).

Can such low hormone levels delay ovulation by 1.5-2 weeks??

I'm no expert but I've read that the clear blue tests like the ones your talking about are terribly inaccurate. It depends on the concentration of the urine you're using. I also think I ready on here recently that the reading can actually go back down the further into pregnancy you go.

My advice would be to step away from the tests and stop causing yourself unnecessary anxiety. I got 1 bfp at the beginning of September and now waiting for my 12 week scan on 28th October 🤷🏼. Yes I am anxious, especially after a MC in June but feel like excessive testing and "reassurance" scans actually cause more anxiety than they help with. What will be will be and they only thing you're achieving with all these tests is to tile yourself up needlessly.

I hope everything goes well for you 💐

Seeing the shear amount of women talking about having had mmcs on this forum is frightening me to be honest. (PLEASE don’t take this as me saying anybody shouldn’t talk about it- this is a ME problem.)

I few years ago I experienced a mc at approx 5 weeks, decided not to try again straight away as we had a nice holiday booked. Took a risk and dtd approx 5 days before period was due, and I got pregnant… didn’t get a positive pregnancy test until I was 10 days late and had a healthy pregnancy. I think early mcs can throw your cycles off big time. Wishing you all the best, but totally understand the worry x

@Nicolelinda96 I understand completely. I didn't even know MMC existed until reading about it on this forum. That being said, MMC are extremely rare (something like 1% of total MC are MMC). However as is always the case people only tend to come to these forums when something terrible happens, which makes these thing seem much more common than they actually are.

Pregnancy and motherhood has changed so much in recent years. I had DS 10 years ago and at that time you bought yourself a few books and went to your doctor's appointments and that was it. While I think that having more access to information is a wonderful thing, there such a thing as too much information. The level or anxiety on this forum is astounding and while, honestly, this forum and others like it may be helpful in some situations, reading about all the terrible things that have happened/are happening to other people, is not the best way to have a stress free pregnancy.

You're about 7 weeks? So get your booking appointments sorted, get your bloods done and you'll know if your levels are ok and on track.

I’m in the uk so bloods aren’t done really. Not even at the booking appointment at 8 ish weeks. They tend to only do bloods if you are high risk or bleeding.

I actually meant to post my last comment on a different thread but oh well! I’m honestly a mess. People commenting that they had a normal 7-8 week scan and a baby that had passed away at the 12 week one is excruciating to hear even tho I know mmcs are rare. I might have to have weekly scans until I reach 12 weeks to be honest. Because if I saw a as heartbeat at 7 weeks that wouldn’t reassure me much at all because of what I’ve read. I’d be expecting the baby to die between then and 12 weeks.

I'm not in the UK so can't atest to whether blood tests are done or not, although it does very odd to me that they wouldn't..I'm in Spain and we get our blood and urine tests done at some point before seeing the midwife at around 10 weeks then first scan at 12-14 weeks. I can't imagine the UK can be that different.

If you feel you need a test every week and freely admit that even that probably won't help your anxiety (and I would hazard a guess to say that that anxiety will continue even after your 12 week scan) , maybe that time and money would be better used in therapy to try and get to the root of your anxiety? Otherwise you're in for another 30 or so weeks of what sounds like quite crippling anxiety.

I don’t think I’d feel anxious particularly after a successful 12 week scan (even less after the 20 week one) it’s really just until that point that I’m struggling with. Because I don’t even have a blood test to suggest my levels look ok. Literally all I have until my early scan is pregnancy tests, which aren’t particularly useful. In the uk, unless you book a private early scan, you are virtually left with no reassurance until 12 weeks and it sucks.

I can understand how frustrating that would be. Although I won't be getting blood tests till I'm 10 weeks, I'll get the result when I see my midwife at 11+3 and then my scan is booked for 12+3.

After my MC is June I did consider a 'reasurrance' scan but honestly came to the conclusion that, as you said, seeing a heart beat at 8 weeks might make me feel better for a while but I'd still have to wait another 4 weeks till my 12 week scan, and I'd be 100€ lighter 😂. I also considered the fact that an early scan will not actually change the outcome, or baby is ok or isn't.... I'll be just as devastated if I find out a 8 weeks or 12 weeks, so I think i'd almost rather enjoy being pregnant until I'm told otherwise.

Yeah I get that. I’m sort of torn as to whether to do weekly scans or not. I suppose it’s an “ignorance is bliss” kinda thing. What I’m not going to do is a scan at 7 weeks then no more until 12. It’ll have to be nothing until 12 or weekly

@Nicolelinda96 doing weekly scans will not help, if anything it will higher your anxiety as you will be constantly waiting for the next scan, you will feel happy for a few hours then wondering if the heartbeat if still there. Try and stay calm and busy if you can 💕

@Nicolelinda96 good morning. Hope you're feeling good today.

Yesterday my mother and I were having a conversation about MC, my father (bless him) had apparently been asking if I was at a 'safe' number of weeks now. I had vaguely remembered reading somewhere that the probability actually drops drastically around the 8 week mark and continues to drop sharply till 16 weeks. I had a quick look at the data this morning and found this. I hope it might help you feel better, you're coming up to 8 weeks now?

The overall probability of a pregnancy ending in miscarriage in the UK is:
25% at four weeks
5% at eight weeks
1.7% at 12 weeks
0.5% at 16 weeks

That’s reassuring to look at, however I’m certain I’m not actually 7+2 because my first positive test was on the 21st September and it wasn’t super dark (first response) so I’m inclined to think then I was no more than 12dpo, so not even 4 weeks. So I’m probably max 6 weeks now.

This is scaring the hell out of me because I’m scared that it indicates my hcg being low and or slow to rise. I only got a 3+ on clear blue a few days ago

Try not to worry too much. I think the actual level of HCG vary from person to person and what is actually important is that it doubles every 48(?) hours. Not everyone gets really dark lines on tests. And the clear blue digital ones are ready unreliable with the weeks.

Have you got your booking appointment yet? They'll go off of when you LMP was, so you'll be able to get in as soon as possible for a scan.

I ovulated 9 days later than usual after my chemical pregnancy so it's very likely the same thing has happened to you.
If you assume you were 12dpo on 21st, I would book a scan at roughly 7 weeks which would be 14th October.
I know it's terribly hard not to worry but there is quire literally nothing you can do which will change the outcome of this pregnancy so take each day at a time until you have an early scan and then decide from there is you want them weekly/2 weekly for reassurance.

It’s reassuring that you ovulated 9 days late after a cp, as that helps me make a bit more sense of what’s going on here. Thing is tho, that I got a line on a frer on the 21st September that looked like most do at 11-12dpo? Which makes me think I ovulated even later than that- probably 2 weeks late???

To reference my previous point, I read that 1-5% of ALL pregnancies end in mmc. That sounds a lot but I guess 95-99% don’t?

My understanding of the figures was that 1-5% of miscarriages are missed miscarriages. So by 8 weeks the probability of a MMC is 1-5% of the 5% chance of MC.

I think 1-5% of ALL miscarriages can't be right, it's simply no that common. Most people don't even know it's a thing until the read about someone else's horrible experience on Mumsnet. If it were that high of a percentage I think people would be starting to demand ultrasounds sooner on the NHS and stuff like that to avoid it happening.

Hmmm. I googled it and keep reading that 1-5% of all pregnancies end in mmcs, but I didn’t think it was that common either. I just keep trying to tell myself that even if they are that common, there’s still a 95% chance at least that I won’t have one and the fact I’m not in pain or bleeding now is a good sign .

I wonder how they define it as well. If someone were to start bleeding at say 9 weeks, they go and get a scan done and discover that baby died at 7 weeks, does it count as missed? Even though they had bleeding the death of the baby 2 weeks prior was technically 'missed'? If that's the way it's defined then those statistics would make much more sense.

Given that the probability of MC at 8 weeks is 5% it's impossible that ALL or most miscarriages after 8 weeks are MMC.

I can't believe that 1-5 women in every 100 aren't finding out their baby has died until 12 weeks 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Nicolelinda96 clear blue are awful my friend got a 3+ without even missing her period and I never got past 2-3!! My son is almost 2 now

@hewegoagain I had a miscarriage at 9 weeks, scans confirmed the baby stopped growing at 6 weeks. It was counted as a mmc as the foetus hadn’t “passed” yet and I my body still thought it was pregnant.

Not to sound harsh, but I did not ask for personal experiences of mmc. It’s incredibly triggering for my anxiety and intrusive thoughts. I’ve woken up this morning and my breasts aren’t sore anymore and feel smaller and that’s triggering those awful thoughts enough.

@Nicolelinda96 hope your feeling a bit better op! My breasts have been tender on and of in this pregnancy and I'm currently 10+5