BFP after Miscarriage

Background info: I am 33, dh is 32. We were kind of trying for over a year when I found out that I was pregnant in December 2012, but then miscarried in January 2013. We were devastated. But then we started trying again in February...it seemed like it was never going to happen, but I was just being impatient. So, this was our third month trying after the miscarriage.

This month (April), we BD'ed on CD 11 & 14...I used ovulation tests, but never got a smiley face this month. So my DPO's are an estimate, assuming that I ovulated on CD 13 (which is my norm). We used Pre-Seed & mucinex, and I prayed A LOT.

6 dpo- Sharp pain in left side of uterus, gums sore, shooting pain in left bb
9 dpo- Felt bloated, also noticed that my puppy wants to lay/sleep on my tummy, she's never done this before, BFN at night dollar store test, 8pm-sharp cramping on right...sore teeth
10 dpo- Puppy wants to lay/sleep on my tummy again - curious...BFN at night dollar store test
11 dpo- Sore bb's, BFN FMU dollar store test
12 dpo- Sore bb's
13 dpo- BFN FMU dollar store test - I thought I was out this month for sure! I went on to enjoy my weekend...
14 dpo- AF due - didn't show
15 dpo- Where is AF?
16 dpo- Still no AF? Clear blue digital test in the afternoon - "Pregnant"; another test at night - BFP again!
17 dpo- Today

I still can't believe it. I had a lot more "symptoms" in other months...

After TTC for 11 months with PCOS and using Clomid, we finally got a BFP back in November. But my second beta came back too low, and I miscarried a couple weeks later at 6 weeks along. It was devastating, but we were determined to try again immediately.

After three frustrating, medicated cycles, we decided to take a break from Clomid and just see what happened. I also swore off ALL message boards and websites and stopped obsessing. No temping, no opk's, nothing.

BFP less than four weeks later! And just had a strong second beta so I am feeling good this bean will stick!

Not many symptoms yet but here they are. I wasn't tracking, so DPO are estimates:

1-7 DPO - Nothing except a little dizziness and fatigue, nipples started getting sore, increased CM

7 DPO - Woke up dizzy, lightheaded, heart racing and palpitating. It took a while to get back to sleep. This may have been blood sugar related, but I'm throwing it in just in case!

8 - 10 DPO - Lightheaded and dizziness at night; vivid dreams; sniffles and cold-like symptoms; and absolutely terrible gas pain and pressure in my chest and abdomen accompanied by a LOT of belching and toots (sorry TMI!).

It was the nighttime burping that tipped me off. It was very strange, and not normal for me. So I bought a test on a whim and bam, a May Day BFP!

Also, for you big girls, don't lose hope. Your size will not prevent you from getting a BFP!

Hi Everyone,

I have waited awhile to post this because not only did I have a early natural MC during Christmas 2012, but it has been a crazy roller coaster ride from the start of my BFP cycle until a week ago.

First off I was concerned I wasn't ovulating after my MC so I started charting my temperatures using a fever thermometer orally (bad idea!! use a BBT thermometer and temp vaginally so it is more accurate). My temps never showed that I ovulated and I was getting positive OPK's on CD 19 of my usual 28 day cycles!! Fertility friend finally gave me my cross hairs around CD 21 and I was thrilled.... I continued to use OPKs just in case my temps were off (and I had 100 of them so might as well) and got a positive OPK on CD 25, I was so pissed off! I then got another positive OPK on CD 26 and something in the back of my head told me something wasn't right. I remember reading that OPKs can double as a HPT so I dipped a IC HPT into the same urine as the OPK and sure enough a faint line showed up within the time limit!!! I kept thinking to myself "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, FF SAYS I'M ONLY 5 DPO!!"....... but sure enough I took a Clear Blue Digital the very next morning and got to see the beautiful words "Pregnant"!!

My only symptom was I still had creamy or sticky CM (still do) before AF when it would usually dry up.

I also want to tell the rest of my story for anyone who may go through something similar to me.... I started spotting brown at 5 weeks pregnant and was terrified I was miscarrying again, I rushed to my Dr. who sent me for blood tests and a ultrasound. The ultrasound at 5 weeks showed only a gestational sac, but was the right size for 5 weeks. I went for a follow up with my doctor and she reported that they saw a bulge in my right fallopian tube, and my doctor told me that my pregnancy was not viable and was ectopic. I questioned her... because if the baby was in my fallopian tube, why did I have a gestational sac showing in my uterus? .... she reported that she guessed that it could be viable because the sac and my HCG levels were good, but that she was very sure it wasn't a viable pregnancy and told me I could die from the ectopic and gave me the warning signs to look out for.... In my heart I knew that wasn't right.... my gut told me that baby was okay! I was sent for 5 more blood tests over the span of two weeks and another ultrasound.... The ultrasound (4 days from the last) showed a larger gestational sac and a yolk sac and when I went to see my doctor again she said my HCG level more then doubled every 48 hours and she was 90% positive it was a viable pregnancy. She sent me away with another ultrasound requisition to see the heartbeat at 7 weeks pregnant....... I continued to spot brown, orange, tan, and even red at one point for 3 weeks in total, but at the 7 week ultrasound we got to see out little peanut's heartbeat which registered at 159 bpm!!! It was the greatest day of our life and we felt like we could finally breath again. I am now 8.5 weeks pregnant and the spotting has stopped and I have had tons of other symptoms since my BFP (some nausea, head aches, gas, bloat, sore breasts and nipples, minor cramping etc.). I will get to breath another sigh of relief when I am past the scary first trimester.

Thank-you for reading!!!!

I had a miscarriage on 7 February 2013 at 6 weeks and 3 days. It was pregnancy number two. I already have a lovely little boy born in 2011.

I was devastated by the miscarriage, and the thing that kept me going was trying to get pregnant again straight away.

I got my positive OPK and temp drop 15 days after my miscarriage which I coulnted as CD15. We managed to BD on CDs 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16. So we missed O-day, but seemed to have all the bases covered otherwise.

The rules I set myself this month were no POAS until 12 DPO and no overanalysing symptoms.

By 4DPO I was feeling really crampy. Much like I did in cycles which ended up in BFNs. I was getting a nice gradual rise in my BBT though.

By 7DPO, I was feeling super crampy, very irritable and also constipated.

8DPO I was noticing more symptoms. All of a sudden my CM had turned creamy and I had lots of it. I was feeling a bit nauseous after my morning coffee, the cramping was continuing, and I was peeing more frequently.

By 9DPO I thought I might be imagining the previous symptoms, as I had nothing of note happening that day except a tiny bit of cramping/itchy feeling in my lower tummy.

By 10 DPO the cramping had got to the stage that I thought it was pre-AF cramping and I was going to have a short luteal phase this cycle. I was super irritable and emotional. After a huge hormonal outburst, I burst into tears and told my husband that there was no way I was pregnant this month, then I cracked open a bottle of wine to drink away the PMT! I had a huge dip in my BBT that day which I thought meant my period was about to arrive. Goodness only knows why I didn't click that it could be an implantation dip!

11DPO I was super nauseous. I put this down to the wine I had the night before (bad mummy!), never thinking that it was for any other reason.

12DPO I woke up deperate for a pee. My temp had jumped back up the previous day and was still high that morning. I had one pregnancy test in my bathroom cabinet, and since FF had this as "test" day I thought, might as well POAS. And there it was. A second pink line!

I am 39 with two children. One at age 31 and one at age 35. I conceived the first month off of the pill naturally, easily and had easy pregnancies. I started trying for #3 in August. I found out that I was pregnant immediately in Sept., but Dr. Confirmed that it was low hcg and a early loss at 4.5 weeks. I became pregnant 2 more times in 6 cycles and they all ended between 4-5 weeks. I had very faint positives usually at 12 dpo and beta hcg never got above 100. I learned in these 6 cycles that I have long 31-35 day cycles and I ovulate on cd 19-24 with an 11-12 day luteal phase. My symptoms were very low or nonexistent in tww with the failed pregnancies. Also, my opks never got positive and the surge only lasted about 24 hours. I didn't have the complete rpl work up, but did find that my TSH was very slightly elevated and anticardiolipin was a little elevated, but neither explained the reason for 3 chemical pregnancies in 6 cycles. Here are the details of my successful cycle.
Cd1 Started miscarriage from chemical preg. #3
Cd21 and 22 sore bbs and cranky so I knew estrogen was peaking
Cd22 LH rising on opk, soft cervix
Cd 23 Ovulated (I get very sensitive sore nipples when I ovulate due to progesterone starting to rise)
1dpo I always have lots of af type cramps just after ovulation due to fluid from burst follicle in abdomen, ewcm, nipples still sore
2 dpo Nipples sore
3dpo Right o cramps, tugging
4 dpo o cramps, tugging, cm stays wet, breast feel full but not sore
5 dpo Cranky, slightly sore bbs
6 dpo CM watery, cranky, not bloated, slight sore bbs
7-8dpo BBs very sore on sides, af type cramps, constipated
Up until now, I didn't think these were pregnancy symptoms, but symptoms of a strong ovulation and progesterone rising properly
9 dpo HPT neg.,tired, sore veiny bbs, bloated, nausea, rt. o twinges
10 dpo BFP on hpt but very faint then slightly darker 8 hours later, sore bbs, tired
11 dpo Nausea, constipation, af cramps, sore bbs beta hcg 16 and progesterone 14
12 dpo Slightly darker hpt ( all hpts are frer), tired, cranky, constipated, af cramps, sore bbs
13 dpo BBs sore, but hpt looks much lighter and lighter still a few hours later, diarrhea, which scared me because I thought progesterone and hcg was dropping
14 dpo Very dark line almost as dark as control on hpt, beta hcg 109, constipated, sore bbs, some af type cramps
16 dpo Beta hcg 336 with doubling time of 29.55 hours
Now I just wait for US at 6.5 weeks. I felt that ovulation became stronger this cycle with stronger hormonal symptoms. I did conceive with sex on top, about 16-20 hours before ovulation.

I am so grateful I’ve fallen pregnant again, I hope this is a sticky bean, so far it looks like it’s here to stay. This will be my first. I started TTC when I was 38 years old with a private donor (friend) but after 6 months of home insemination nothing had happened other than a chemical pregnancy. I was freaking out about my age and having read so much horror stories online, I was sure my age and old eggs was the issue. We went to a fertility clinic for IUI treatment and blood work and examinations and it turned out I was fine but my donor had rather bad sperm count and low motility, but not so low that we had to go directly to IVF/ICSI. The doctor was convinced that my age was not a problem as my numbers were all great. Yet in the next many months I had two more chemicals and nothing else happened. Finally after 10 months of trying with Chlomid, Puregon, trigger shot and IUI I finally got that BFP!! Unfortunately I miscarried at 5 weeks pregnant just few days before my 40th birthday. I was devastated. Again I was sure advanced maternal age had something to do with it, women over 40 miscarrying more often than younger women and so scared it was now too late and I would never fall pregnant again. Again the doctor was sure it had more to do with the quality of the sperm rather than my age and kept telling my numbers were perfect. For the next four months we tried again but nothing happened. Having had three chemicals and a miscarriage I was send to an expert in recurrent miscarriage. Before our appointment was due my friend backed out and decided not to be a part of it anymore. It was another blow. We had been in this together and now I was all alone. The new doctor too thought my numbers were too good to be the issue and with no blocked tubes and a very high AMH and low FSH he told me my age was not likely to be the cause of recurrent miscarriage but probably had to do with the quality of the sperm as bad sperm quality is more likely to result in miscarriage than healthy sperm. He suggested trying IUI with a donor a few more times and then go on to IVF Having read even more bad stories of older women trying to conceive for the first time I was not convinced. I was freaking myself out with stories of old eggs and problems conceiving. Then I started loosely dating a guy for a short while and used the break from the treatment to think about my situation, if I should continue with IUI with a donor or if I should go directly to IVF. The date and I found out about a month into it that it just wasn’t the of us and I was ready to move on to donor Ivf. While waiting to begin treatment again I bumped into the ex-date and after a night with drinks (too many) we ended up in bed. Well AF never arrived and there was no need to start donor ivf – I was pregnant! Completely unexpected, although I had this gut feeling from the start that I might be pregnant. The guy even ended up being quite thrilled about it, even though we are both sure we are not going to date again. Miracles do happen – and I guess the doctors were right, I do not have bad quality eggs.

I think I ovulated 4 days after having sex because I felt ovulation pain that day but looking at my dpo timeline, it looks like I O’ed a few days earlier.

Hi to all. Reading all of your stories during this wait gave me hope and now I'm here sharing my own!

We've been trying to conceive for 2.5 years... I had 2 early miscarriages (one Nov 2011 then March 2012). We took a break from TTC for 6 months and when we decided to try again my Dr put me on Clomid. I got my BFP on 1st round. Took Clomid CD 3-7, then trigger shot on CD 14, BD on CD 14, 16 and 19; had progesterone test taken on CD 21 and results were 40 nmol/L.

I didn't have any symptoms compared as to when I feel AF is coming... only that I've been very sleepy and hungry! No implantation bleeding, some watery clear CM.

I'm beyond happy but also scared.. hoping and praying this baby sticks!
Good luck to all of you :)

The hubs and I have been TTC #2 since last April. We found out we were pregnant last July, but found out we miscarried at 12 weeks when we went to the doc to hear the heartbeat for the first time, but the doc couldn't find one. We had an ultrasound at 7 weeks that showed a heartbeat, so the chance of a miscarriage was really low. It was a really terrible experience. I had a D&C, and I'm really happy I did because with the amount of heavy bleeding I still had after the D&C, I can't imagine what the bleeding would have been like naturally. After the D&C, the doc told us to wait two normal cycles before trying again. However, at a 7 week ultrasound for that pregnancy, the tech noticed something on my ovary. The doc said it was probably nothing, and to just get a follow-up when I had the 20 week ultrasound. Unfortunately, I never made it to that ultrasound, so I had to have just a standard pelvic ultrasound. The pelvic ultrasound showed a large tumor on my ovary, but thankfully, an MRI confirmed that the tumor was benign. I had laparoscopic surgery to remove the tumor at the end of December, when we would have been able to start trying again. After the surgery, we had to wait an additional two months before trying again so I could heal. We started trying again in February, after four months of waiting, and didn't succeed the first two months, but got a BFP this month!

These past few months have been really hard for me, and I convinced myself we couldn't get pregnant again after the surgery. I used ovulation tests the first two months this time around, but this month, I ran out and decided not to buy more. This month is when our baby would have been born if we hadn't had the miscarriage, so I decided to focus on a project to keep my mind off everything. I didn't test at all and didn't pay attention to when I should be ovulating. Every time I started thinking about ovulation, babies, getting pregnant, etc., I just thought of some more ideas for my project.

After I knew I should have ovulated, I had some symptoms that made me think I might be pregnant. I have a spot in one of my breasts that always hurts right before I ovulate and right before I get my period, and that spot started hurting just a couple days after ovulation. I also had some shooting pains in both breasts and my nipples were very sensitive. I also was very itchy, like I had a yeast infection. But the itchiness only lasted a few minutes a couple times, so it made me wonder.

We were leaving on a trip where I knew there would be plenty of opportunities to have a drink, so I thought I should test the day we left just in case. It was 10DPO, so I thought it should be positive if I was pregnant. I put it on the counter, already ready for a BFN, but next time I looked it was a BFP!! I have 30 day cycles, so 10DPO for me is still 6 days before AF. I used FRER. I took another test today at 17DPO, and the test line is darker than the control line. Yay!

I'm still really worried about another miscarriage, and until I hear the heartbeat, I won't be convinced that everything is ok. At this point, I'm ecstatic to be pregnant again, and I'm hoping this one sticks! Should be due around Christmas 2013. Please stick, baby!!!

Baby dust to everyone! Thanks for reading my rambling, insanely long story!

I have had an IUD for 5 years and after 3 months of TTC I'm pregnant. This is a month after a CM pregnancy which if I wouldn't have tested right before AF I would have never known because she came right on time.

Things I did this month is charted my temps, used OPKs, BD everyday of fertile period, took prenals and two Evening Primrose pills everyday. I have a 25 day cycle. My symtoms were:

1 DPO-13DPO Cramping on my right ovaries and abdomen. NO CM, which I thought was abnormal. They say you stay wet when you concieve :)
5 DPO- BBs tingle a little bit.
7 DPO- On and off headaches
8-12 CPO Tired and bad backache
12 DPO- Small amount of blood on tissue when I blew my nose. They say this could be from implantation but you never know. I never have nose bleeds so I decieded to test with a cheap Dollar Store test with urine right before bed and got a faint positive
13 DPO BFP!!! Day before AF took and EPT said Pregnant and a FRER both morning urine.

Please stay positive about your TTC. Stress only slows you down. I am 3 days past AF and hope baby sticks.

So after two losses back to back (and yes it is possible to conceive almost immediately after a natural miscarriage!) my DH and I started trying again in January 2013... figured it a new year and all! After three successive failed months I was starting to lose hope again, but kept trying... This month I was almost positive at about 6-7 dpo that I was pregnant. Here are my symptoms...

April 6 - + OPK...bd'd on the 4th and the 6th
April 7 - O pains felt on my left ovary. CD 14 for me although I fluctuate anywhere from CD 12 to CD 16. Got a bit snappy with my DP when he didn't want to play this day...figured timing was off and wrote myself off for the month.
1-5 dpo - Nothing to report.
6 dpo - Had a cup of coffee in the AM and thought it tasted off. It was the last pot brewed from the bag so thought it was just old. At night after a bath had a moment that lasted for about 3 minutes where my nips felt like they were burning!
7 dpo - At work by 7am. A little tired though. While sitting in my truck I felt a sharp stabbing pain on the left side of my uterus that last for about a minute and made me actually gasp. Pain disappeared and was replaced by low level cramping for the rest of the day. Fell asleep at work at around 12:30...Went home and had a glass of wine but it tasted terrible! Couldn't drink more than a few sips before tossing the rest!
8 dpo - Restless night. Still have cramping but it's really deep, about three inches below belly button. Stomach feels bloated. Extremely thirsty (I drank 6 big bottle of water) Peed a lot, but figured that it was due to all the water! Nodded off again at work at around noon. Had a training appointment after work at 5 and was absolutely exhausted through my workout. Couldn't seem to get into it...
9 dpo - Still had low level cramping on and off all day. The belt I wear for work was really uncomfortable. BB's now sore to touch only on the sides though I think its sore muscles from my workout the previous day. Noted that the station at work smelled like food, but nobody was eating anything.
10 dpo - Completely off coffee now. Heartburn sets in. I've never had it before, so I had to Google the symptoms to figure out what was up! Still cramping... now really not trying to read into my symptoms because I've done that before and been even more upset when the neg preg test came around. Mild cramping all day. Feels weird to lay on my stomach. Cried when watching 13 Going on 30...um...yeah
11 dpo - BB's sore all over but not too bad. Hurts on left side of uterus when stretching. Took a warm bath to help with cramps. Don't feel pre AF at all. Fell asleep at around 6:45 in the evening without realizing it! Then after about 11:00 pm tossed and turned all night long! Debated with myself to take a test in morning. Got up twice to pee in the night...
12 dpo - Still not sure about taking test, don't wanna jinx myself! I break down and POAS with FMU...voila! second line pops up and here come attempt number three!

I am really exited but terrified. I won't get really happy until after 8 weeks. Both of my other MCs happened at that mark... so wish me luck ladies! Baby dust to you all!