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how soon trying to get pregnant after miscarriage
I've read in my prgenancy books and on forums and I've been told by doctors to wait 1 to 3 cycles before trying to get pregnant again after having had a miscarriage recently. But there doesn't seem to be any research to back this up...no one can tell me if there's a medical risk if I get pregnant sooner. Does anyone know? I am 36 years old and had a m/c on my first pregnancy last month and I'm eager to try again. If it's for emotional reasons that people say to wait, well getting pregnant again will make me feel better as that was my goal, but I don't want to have an increased risk of another m/c by getting pregnant too soon. But time is an issue b/c I am 36 and just starting to have children now. I know this all may be pointless if I don't ovulate again soon, but hoping thinsg get back to normal soon. I had a natural m/c and my hcg levels are almost back to normal or zero. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I had a miscarriage a week ago an I'm back to having sex without protection can I be pregnant again?
Hello.
My boyfriend and I conceived in July. I was 4.5 weeks along and we lost our baby on August 1st. We found out when we was only 3 weeks and 2 days. I am 19 with a 1.5 year old daughter. We was so excited to find out about having another baby. But on the 1st we ended up in the hospital because i was slightly bleeding. They gave me a pregnancy test and found out that my hcg levels already dropped and the test came back negative. We tested when we got home, it was slightly positive, but was defiantly fading. So we new it was for sure a m/c.The next morning i experienced A LOT of blood and terrible pains for 3-4 days after. I never had any signs of m/c until i started bleeding. We was both torn apart over our loss. But i stopped bleeding on the 6th, so only 5 days after our m/c, and plan on ttc again. Hoping that we are one of the lucky ones who conceive before my first menstrual cycle. Our first appointment since our m/c is tomorrow. So we're hoping to see that my hcg levels are below 5 so we are in the safe zone to try again. =)
Im sorry to hear all of the loses. But i want to say thank you to everyone who posts there experiences on here. It's giving me hope that my next pregnancy will go better. It's also helping me get over our loss.
*Baby dust to all*
<3
My boyfriend and I conceived in July. I was 4.5 weeks along and we lost our baby on August 1st. We found out when we was only 3 weeks and 2 days. I am 19 with a 1.5 year old daughter. We was so excited to find out about having another baby. But on the 1st we ended up in the hospital because i was slightly bleeding. They gave me a pregnancy test and found out that my hcg levels already dropped and the test came back negative. We tested when we got home, it was slightly positive, but was defiantly fading. So we new it was for sure a m/c.The next morning i experienced A LOT of blood and terrible pains for 3-4 days after. I never had any signs of m/c until i started bleeding. We was both torn apart over our loss. But i stopped bleeding on the 6th, so only 5 days after our m/c, and plan on ttc again. Hoping that we are one of the lucky ones who conceive before my first menstrual cycle. Our first appointment since our m/c is tomorrow. So we're hoping to see that my hcg levels are below 5 so we are in the safe zone to try again. =)
Im sorry to hear all of the loses. But i want to say thank you to everyone who posts there experiences on here. It's giving me hope that my next pregnancy will go better. It's also helping me get over our loss.
*Baby dust to all*
<3
Hi this is my first time telling this to anyone other then my fam n friends i have had 4 m/c in the last 4 yrs but the last m/c was the worst of all it was 1 yr ago. i was in pain n my fiancee had lft to ny bcuz his mother was dying in the hospital i was with my 7yr old daughter in my home i knew something was wrong but i held it out there is more to the story all i know i aint going back to that hospital that checked me out first the next day i went to work a couple of hours later i felt a burst of blood running down my legs i drove home got in the shower n the urge to push i saw it came out i was 10weeks i put the baby in a cup n went straight to the hospital so doctors could check wat went wrong i was in so much pain physically n emotionally i would not want anyone not even my worst enemy to go through it i swear i think about it till this day and ever since i have had an irregular period havnt got pregnant n gaining alot of weight it is horrible and now i want a baby more than ever i see them everywhere and all my friends are having babies except me and it hurts wen i get phone calls hearing there news i dont know wat to do we been trying ever since and nothing my doctor said i was ok but my stress is wat is killing me nut its been down for 3 months
I hope you all don't mind me butting in. I've never suffered a miscarriage, though I've seen thousands of them working as an ultrasound tech. As wonderful as ultrasound can be, one of the negatives of it is that we are able to see our babies so early. The majority of miscarriages occur in the first 3 months. It is thought that those early miscarriages occur because of severe birth defects present in the fetus that you can't even see with ultrasound. We are able to pick up heartbeats as early as 5-5 1/2 weeks, and there is nothing that will make a pregnancy more real to a woman as seeing and hearing her baby's heartbeat. It is a wonderful bonding experience, but unfortunately does not guarantee that the baby is fine. In fact, a woman can miscarry at any time in her pregnancy, though after the first trimester is past it is less likely. Many people do not announce their pregnancies to family and friends before 12 weeks because of this, but these days, many of us see our babies before we have any real symptoms of pregnancy.
It may not take away the pain and grief of losing the child you were so excitedly planning for, but from my experience, again, there is often something very wrong with the baby which may have resulted in a miserable existance had it somehow survived. Also, what often happens that early is that no baby actually ever develops. This results in all the symptoms of pregnancy, a positive pregnancy test, and a gestational sac visible with an early sonogram. However, as time goes on, all that is ever seen is a sac. I usually tell my patients that there never was a baby in this case. In your head and in your heart, the mom has felt there was a baby, but I hope in time it helps just a bit to know that no baby was lost, no baby ever formed. This is the drawback to finding out so early that you are pregnant. I'm sure years ago women miscarried often without ever knowing they were pregnant--a heavier than normal period maybe, but not knowing you were pregnant spares you the grief of losing the hopes and dreams of a long desired pregnancy.
To those who've suffered such a loss, there is no reason to believe you cannot get pregnant again. Even if there are fertility issues, much can be done. There is no reason to despair. Losing one baby does not mean you are doomed to lose every baby. Some women who miscarry around 16 weeks suffer from what they call an "incompetent cervix", where the weight of the developing fetus causes the cervix to open too soon. The babies in that case are usually perfectly normal but once the cervix has opened, cannot be saved. But there is much hope for women with that problem! Your doctor can simply do what is called a cerclage, which means he or she will stitch your cervix shut until the baby is fullterm and you go into labor and then release the stitches to allow the baby to be born!
There are so many reasons a miscarriage may occur and often you'll never know why. Certainly it is important to take care of yourself during pregnancy, but you should not blame yourself if you didn't know you were pregnant and did things that are not healthy for the baby. Of course if you are trying to get pregnant, or not doing anything to prevent pregnancy, then you should clean up your act and not do anything dangerous to the developing person inside you. But even if you have done nothing that might harm the fetus, things just happen. It's actually more of a miracle than most people realize that everything falls into place to produce a normal fetus and a healthy pregnancy. We tend to take it for granted, or I did until I started working in ultrasound, where I see 1-2 miscarriages a day on average. All it takes is one abnormal egg, or one abnormal sperm out of the millions trying to make it to the egg, or one abnormal division of the cells, and you can have a catastrophic outcome. Or an exposure to a virus you didn't even know you were exposed to, or a placenta that just happens to implant too low, or any of a million other things that can go wrong, and the pregnancy is doomed. But honestly, more often that not, all the things that need to fall into place DO fall into place. If they didn't, we wouldn't have human population growing by leaps and bounds, and it is not always people who take fantastic care of themselves who have normal pregnancies, believe me. I've seen healthy babies come from women with no prenatal care and who have habits one would be sure would destroy their babies, and somehow the babies thrive. That's not to say you should throw caution to the wind and drink and do drugs while you are pregnant! You shouldn't do that to your own body, let alone a fetus! But blaming yourself for a miscarriage does no one any good. No one usually knows why it happened. It just did. The best thing to do is give your body and soul a little time to heal, get yourself in the healthiest condition possible, both physically and mentally, and let nature take its reproductive course. Trying too hard usually prevents pregnancy anyway, so try to relax and let it happen. No one was put on earth to have babies. It's lovely if it happens when you want it to. It's also lovely to adopt a child who can benefit from all the love you've been saving up. Maybe that's what you were put on earth for.
It may not take away the pain and grief of losing the child you were so excitedly planning for, but from my experience, again, there is often something very wrong with the baby which may have resulted in a miserable existance had it somehow survived. Also, what often happens that early is that no baby actually ever develops. This results in all the symptoms of pregnancy, a positive pregnancy test, and a gestational sac visible with an early sonogram. However, as time goes on, all that is ever seen is a sac. I usually tell my patients that there never was a baby in this case. In your head and in your heart, the mom has felt there was a baby, but I hope in time it helps just a bit to know that no baby was lost, no baby ever formed. This is the drawback to finding out so early that you are pregnant. I'm sure years ago women miscarried often without ever knowing they were pregnant--a heavier than normal period maybe, but not knowing you were pregnant spares you the grief of losing the hopes and dreams of a long desired pregnancy.
To those who've suffered such a loss, there is no reason to believe you cannot get pregnant again. Even if there are fertility issues, much can be done. There is no reason to despair. Losing one baby does not mean you are doomed to lose every baby. Some women who miscarry around 16 weeks suffer from what they call an "incompetent cervix", where the weight of the developing fetus causes the cervix to open too soon. The babies in that case are usually perfectly normal but once the cervix has opened, cannot be saved. But there is much hope for women with that problem! Your doctor can simply do what is called a cerclage, which means he or she will stitch your cervix shut until the baby is fullterm and you go into labor and then release the stitches to allow the baby to be born!
There are so many reasons a miscarriage may occur and often you'll never know why. Certainly it is important to take care of yourself during pregnancy, but you should not blame yourself if you didn't know you were pregnant and did things that are not healthy for the baby. Of course if you are trying to get pregnant, or not doing anything to prevent pregnancy, then you should clean up your act and not do anything dangerous to the developing person inside you. But even if you have done nothing that might harm the fetus, things just happen. It's actually more of a miracle than most people realize that everything falls into place to produce a normal fetus and a healthy pregnancy. We tend to take it for granted, or I did until I started working in ultrasound, where I see 1-2 miscarriages a day on average. All it takes is one abnormal egg, or one abnormal sperm out of the millions trying to make it to the egg, or one abnormal division of the cells, and you can have a catastrophic outcome. Or an exposure to a virus you didn't even know you were exposed to, or a placenta that just happens to implant too low, or any of a million other things that can go wrong, and the pregnancy is doomed. But honestly, more often that not, all the things that need to fall into place DO fall into place. If they didn't, we wouldn't have human population growing by leaps and bounds, and it is not always people who take fantastic care of themselves who have normal pregnancies, believe me. I've seen healthy babies come from women with no prenatal care and who have habits one would be sure would destroy their babies, and somehow the babies thrive. That's not to say you should throw caution to the wind and drink and do drugs while you are pregnant! You shouldn't do that to your own body, let alone a fetus! But blaming yourself for a miscarriage does no one any good. No one usually knows why it happened. It just did. The best thing to do is give your body and soul a little time to heal, get yourself in the healthiest condition possible, both physically and mentally, and let nature take its reproductive course. Trying too hard usually prevents pregnancy anyway, so try to relax and let it happen. No one was put on earth to have babies. It's lovely if it happens when you want it to. It's also lovely to adopt a child who can benefit from all the love you've been saving up. Maybe that's what you were put on earth for.
I took just lost my identical twins. They were mono/mono and I found out I lost one of them at 15 weeks along and the other one still had a strong heartbeat and was doing fine. Then at 18 weeks we went in for an u/s and there was no heartbeat. I too am so heartbroken and want more than anything to be able to have a healthy pregnancy. I feel like it will never happen...
hi guys ...
i gt miscarrge recently after the perdiot i stared my family life again ,,,bt im very unhappy after the sex its bleeding for me max 2 weeks its bleeding again after all clear i started doing sex ..after d 2 days its bleeding agian..plz woud any one like 2 help me ,,or plz gve me an advice alrdy i hv 1 baby girl shez 3 years and nw im trying 4 another baby ,,,im 20 years old ,,i gt married in 15 years ...
i gt miscarrge recently after the perdiot i stared my family life again ,,,bt im very unhappy after the sex its bleeding for me max 2 weeks its bleeding again after all clear i started doing sex ..after d 2 days its bleeding agian..plz woud any one like 2 help me ,,or plz gve me an advice alrdy i hv 1 baby girl shez 3 years and nw im trying 4 another baby ,,,im 20 years old ,,i gt married in 15 years ...
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