TTC after miscarriage/loss

Sorry to hear about the loss chandy :-( it must have been so hard getting past the 12 week point then to get that news. I hope you are holding up as well.

Thanks for asking apfel! I'm ok. Spotting only just stopped yesterday. We're taking a break until ivf next year. I've decided to quit my lab job cause of the exposure to chemicals and the stress for next year (will finish at the end of the school year). How are you getting on?

Talz and mac and seaview... great to hear from our graduates. I miss you girls. X

Hi Chandy - our first MC was at 12 weeks (baby died at 8 we think), we tried again immediately as we were using a donor who needed to leave the country - were successful on the 3rd try - really only 2.5 mths after the first MC(which was spontaneous - so no medical care at all). The innocence was lost for sure, but we got confident at 5 weeks when I started to get morning sickness which I hadn't had with the previous pregnancy. The MS got progressively worse till I was basically sofa-ridden for weeks 8-10, but happy as I thought that meant all was well. A couple of days out from 12 weeks I started bleeding and an emergency scan showed that perfect little baby had stopped growing at 8 weeks too.

Hi everyone, I'm sorry to hear those of you enduring further bad luck and heartache, it's just awful. :( I am on day 24 of my cycle and absolutely dreading the likelihood of getting my period in the next few days and being disappointed, frustrated and heartbroken again for the fifth month..... I'm not being pessimistic but there was a tinge of blood when I went to the toilet this morning, my heart is sinking.....

On another note, I thought I would just let you know (all of you that may not be aware) that it is Baby Loss Awareness Week this week (from 9th-15th October). I should have posted this on 9th October so that you were at least all aware of it, sorry! :(

Todd and I are honoured for our tiny angel Hope's feet castings model to be used for the official Baby Loss Awareness pin worldwide. Now she is giving back to many others in our situation as well. :) Sarah from Baby Loss NZ is kindly sending us a pin to keep, plus three extras to give to both our parents. It really is beautiful and special. Now, we just want a perfect, healthy little baby sister and brother for Hope and Our Little Angel....xxoo

Hi everyone, really glad I've found this forum you all seem like lovely girls. Hope you don't mind me joining.
We have just had our 3rd miscarriage, tomorrow will be 3 weeks since the d&c. We had two miscarriages years ago then conceived our daughter Ava who is now 17 months. We waited a while till the time was right to try again and took a few months to get pregnant. We were overjoyed when we found out and naively thought everything would be fine but were so wrong :( many weeks of tests and scans and feeling very sick to find out our wee baby wasn't growing probably then eventually the heartbeat stopped. Obviously we have been feeling devastated but we really want to try again. We have an appointment with an ob on 6 nov to discuss help for trying to conceive again and I am really holding out for that. She has done the recurrent loss blood tests which I've not heard anything from. She said if nothing is wrong with them she will be starting me on high dose folic acid, low dose asprin, steriods around implantation and more injections to thin my blood. Hoping I will get my period back before then so we can start trying. My cycles are all over the show though. Really hoping we can have another, just can't get it off my mind at the moment.
Sorry to hear of all your losses, thinking of you all.
There was one thing I wanted to ask - can any of you recommend what I can do to get my body into the best shape possible to conceive?? Just healthy eating and exercise or is there anything else I can do? Just want to be proactive as I can.
Lovely to meet you all, under such awful circumstances. Looking forward to getting to know you all some more xx

Welcome Sarah, sorry that you need to join :(
In terms of your cycle being all over the show, I've started taking Vitex this month and it seems to be working so far! Pretty sure I ov on day 15 this month and last month it was day 29.

OMG congratulations NZveggie! Everything crossed that this is the one for you

Something else I started to try after my mc when TTC again was maca powder in smoothies? Not sure how effective it is but perhaps a naturopath could help? Me and my partner were also taking fertility supplements and CoQ10 through the naturopath...

And congrats Pepi, that's a long wait you've had, I hope this is you take home baby/babies! Hopefully as the weeks go by you'll start getting that deliriously happy "I'm Pregnant!!" feeling back!

I haven't waited after any of my pregnancies! My body doesn't seem to allow me to get pregnant te first cycle anyway!! So far I've gotten pregnant 2ndcycle, 4th cycle and now 3rd cycle after m/c. The time it took 4 cycles I had a fairly traumatic d&c with retained products before that so I think it was my body saying 'not ready yet'.

As for getting healthy. I exercise most days and try and eat healthy. I take folic acid and iodine. That's it. I have mostly cut out alcohol although having said that this BFP cycle I drank heaps during the wait to ov and around ov because we had guests. Had a couple of drinks most nights which is unusual for me!!

Hi all - thanks for the congrats Chandy :-) Another beta tomorrow - so hopefully the results will make it all seem more real!

Thanks for the advice girls :) going to be contacting a naturopath and accupuncturist ASAP. Really wanna get my body in too condition!