Natural Miscarriage and Trying Again

[Anonymous]

I had a natural miscarriage and the doctor told me to wait three cycles before trying again. Is there any medical reason to wait before trying again? All I can find is that they want to date the pregnancy. The ER doctor told me I can start trying again immediately. I also note that I am in my mid thirties and already had one healthy normal pregnancy. Did anyone here get pregnant before their first AF after a miscarriage?

[Anonymous]

I am just wrapping up a miscarriage now and had one 6 years ago before getting pregnant with DD. Then and now I have been advised to have one normal cycle to allow the lining to build back up properly. We didn't use protection, but I didn't get pregnant until after one normal cycle. I was pregnant within 8 weeks of my first miscarriage. I was 37 then. It's going to be much harder now.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

my m/w just advised me to wait until after my first period. 3 cycles seems like a long time!

[Anonymous]

I had an early miscarriage and got pregnant on my third cycle. I carried that baby to term and had a very easy pregnancy. I was 39. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

I did a lot of research into this and believe that the main reason they tell you to wait is to give you time to recover emotionally, not medically. Your odds of conceiving go up in the cycle following a miscarriage (though your miscarriage rate also goes up slightly, due to the lining issue, most likely).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did a lot of research into this and believe that the main reason they tell you to wait is to give you time to recover emotionally, not medically.

Agree with this. I had a m/c & D&C this summer, and even with the D&C, I could not find much if any evidence based reason to need to wait, although my m/w and one Dr did recommend waiting until my cycle returned. (Also had 1 Dr at the practice give out the 'wait 3 months' line, but per my own research and conversations with other medical providers I had no qualms with ignoring it.)

We did opt to wait until my cycle returned, primarily for emotional reasons. While I actually didn't find my m/c as traumatic as some - I had had a sense that something might go wrong - I still found a break to let myself get over it (and indulge in some quality wine) mentally beneficial. Period returned 4 weeks post D&C, and I got pregnant again on that next cycle (am now ~24 weeks.)

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone!

[Anonymous]

I did in fact get pregnant in the cycle immediately following a miscarriage (before a period). I miscarried that pregnancy as well, unfortunately. I subsequently got pregnant the 3rd cycle after that miscarriage, after waiting for 1 cycle to try again. Am now 21 weeks. My doctor didn't seem to think that lining issues were the cause of the 2nd miscarriage, but likely a random chromosomal anomaly. Good Luck, OP.

[Anonymous]

My doctor said to wait one cycle. I got pregnant first try after that and had a healthy full-term baby boy.

From what I have read, unless you had something unusual, one cycle is fine.

So sorry you are going through this!

[Anonymous]

When I mc'ed, I asked my dr. about the 3 mon/1 mon inconsistency among providers. He told me that the recommendation used to be 3 months but the medical consensus is just one cycle now. Sounds like you just have an old school OB.

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much for all the responses. It means alot to know that other woman have gone through this and have had successful pregnancies afterward

[Anonymous]

My first period post-m/c was VERY heavy, and I was then glad that I decided to wait for that first period before we started TTC-ing again. Just seemed like maybe my body needed a little more time to process the m/c. Mine was an early miscarriage.

[Anonymous]

I was told one cycle after my m/c. It took 6 months to conceive after it, though. However, I went on to have 3 very healthy children and never had another m/c or difficulty conceiving!

[Anonymous]

I was at a fertilty clinic, IUIs. RE had me wait 1 cycle after miscarriage. Miscarriage was very early, the classic "somewhat late period" which a woman who hadn't been monitoring very closely would have missed the pregnancy all together.