TTC after miscarriage

[aowens]

Hello I am 37 with 3 children the youngest being 13 in July.....I found out in March I was pregnant only to miscarry April 13th at 7 weeks but the baby only measured 6 weeks and 4 days...

I have never kept track of my cycles or cm and i sure dont know how to track my ovulation...I started my cyle on May 13th it was kind of weird a bled heavy for 2 days then i stopped for 1 day then bled heavy for another day and stopped then I spotted for like 3 days (sorry if TMI)

I started cramping around the 20th which i believe is cd8? and I "think" this was ovualtion cramping? My breasts have been sore since about the 22nd...my DH and I BD twice on the 21st and once on the 22nd...

according to what I have read i should have ovulated on the 27th me and the DH did BD last night...
this morning I bought the OPK but I didnt get a surge detection so I am worried that I may have ovulated early and missed my window...

My DH works out of town and is usually only home on the weekends so I do know that getting my BFP is going to be a challenge...

any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

[aowens]

Hi Lori
I had a natural miscarriage...on the 24th my doctor called me in for a blood test which came back that my levels are at 0 well the said negative so im assuming that is what they meant
i believe my cycles are 28-31 days but I wont know for sure unless I get AF in June which I am praying I do not... ::)

Im going to try another ovulation test later this evening to see..cause i do see that sometimes they work better later in the after noon....

If I go by when I got pregant before my last period was Feb 18th which means I go pregnant around the 3rd or 4th of march which puts me right at the 14cd? so if my cycles are back to normal which i think they are and if i use the first day i started bleeding with my miscarriage which is what i have heard to do....my cycle was 31 days so going by that I should ovulate on the 30th now that I actually look at it....

this is all so confusing but since i got pregnant on the 14th cd last time that whats im using now to calculate...

thanks for your response...

[smr08]

Hi! Welcome to the group! I'm sorry for your loss. Did you have a natural m/c or D&C?? Have they checked your hcg levels to make sure they're down to below 5? The first cycle to several cycles can be a little strange after a m/c, some women O following and some it takes a while. It's very hard to say. I just went through the same thing, I had my post m/c appointment on Wednesday and asked him the same questions. I believe I O'd 14 days from the m/c but he told me because my hcg was at 12 I probably wouldn't get pg, but it wasn't impossible(makes no sense to me!) Ovulation is kinda hard to track unless you use certain methods(which I don't). How long are your cycles? Wish I could be of more help.

Lori