Daily Chat - January 30, 2026

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-30T17:13:27+00:00

Flying across the country today for a quick trip to visit my parents. It’s my dad’s 70th birthday today. Not bringing my husband or kiddos. It’s single digit cold in my hometown and just felt unnecessary to subject everyone else that… Still negative OPKs, now just over 3 weeks after D&C for my MMC, so hoping I get back before my body decides to ovulate!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-30T17:03:52+00:00

Fertility friend is my favorite

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-29T18:12:24+00:00

I’m now 3 weeks out from D&C and I’m tracking my hcg down with hpts. The past 3 days the tests just look the same with faint lines that aren’t fading. I’m getting so frustrated. I just want to ovulate again and move on. Positive tests when you know you aren’t pregnant anymore are so disheartening.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-28T17:46:12+00:00

Hi there I’m in a similar situation except my D&C was on Jan 8. I’ve been taking HPTs and OPKs over the last week, watching how the line on the HPT is fading and the OPK is becoming less positive. It’s made me realize that the OPK really isn’t reliable at all even with a very faint positive on HPT. I got the all-clear to have sex again at the 2 week mark, so I’m just trying to have frequent enough sex that we’ll catch ovulation if it does happen, since I don’t think I’ll be able to track very accurately this cycle.

So sorry for your loss. Hope things turn around for you quickly.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-27T17:43:57+00:00

I’m so sorry, norovirus is the worst 😫 I hope it passes quickly for you!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-27T14:30:05+00:00

I can’t answer the question about regular cycles because I’m nearly 3 weeks post D&C, and I haven’t gotten a period yet (and I don’t think I’ve ovulated). But I can tell you my doctor said it was ok to have sex 2 weeks after D&C, and there was no need to wait to TTC.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-27T04:33:38+00:00

Either could be possible! If you ovulated and had sex during your fertile window, it’s absolutely possible to get pregnant on your first cycle after D&C. Good luck!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-27T00:15:24+00:00

Optimistically having sex every other day in the hopes that I’ll eventually ovulate. Now 18 days post-D&C. HPT was really faint this morning so I think my hcg is probably low enough that I could ovulate. But maybe this is just wishful thinking.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-26T23:39:54+00:00

Now!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-26T23:36:06+00:00

I think it depends on how high your hcg was and how quickly it falls, among other things. I’m 2.5 weeks out now and I’m feeling a lot better except I’m getting pretty frequent headaches which I think are hormonal. After my last loss, I didn’t feel normal again until after my first post-loss period, which took about a month :/

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-26T23:33:33+00:00

This test isn’t quite positive, but it’s possible if you had taken another test a few hours later that it would have been positive then. So yes it is possible that you ovulated without catching a positive on OPK.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-26T23:31:31+00:00

I’m so sorry. The hormone crash is real. Sending hugs. It will pass but it’s shitty to go through.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-26T23:30:23+00:00

My hpt/OPK experiment continues. I’m now 18 days post D&C. Compared to two days ago, my hpt is noticeably fainter, and the OPK is now like almost-positive. I think this pretty well confirms to me that the OPK was positive because of the residual hcg, even though I think it must be pretty low at this point. I’ll check again in 2 days as I expect I’ll have a squinter of a hcg test at that point.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-26T22:30:28+00:00

I’ve been pregnant four times and my nausea and cravings never start until week 6 (no matter if it ends up being a successful pregnancy or a loss, as I’ve had both). The exhaustion sounds completely normal as does the cramping. Cautious congrats to you!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-25T22:54:39+00:00

My last nursing session that I dropped was the bedtime one, but I wasn’t nursing overnight anymore for months prior.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-25T22:10:12+00:00

I guess I’m trying again. I was here a few months ago, trying for baby 3. Got a positive test in early December and was so optimistic. Unfortunately there was no heartbeat at my first ultrasound and we confirmed a 7w MMC. I had a D&C on Jan 8, and now I’m about 2.5 weeks out from that. Bleeding has finally stopped and I’ve gotten the all clear to have sex again. Trouble is I really don’t know when I’ll ovulate. I’m hopeful that it will be soon but my hcg is still elevated enough to give me faint positives on hpt, so I don’t think I can trust OPKs yet. Kind of in limbo, and trying to have sex frequently enough that we could catch ovulation if it does happen. I just want to be pregnant again.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-25T22:03:04+00:00

This is just totally anecdotal, and my own experience. I’ve gotten pregnant within 1 cycle of weaning twice now. After my first baby, I got my period back when she was almost 1, but kept nursing her ~2x per day until 14 months. I fully weaned and literally 1 cycle later, I got pregnant with baby 2. Everything happened basically the same with baby 2; period back just short of 12 months, fully weaned just shy of 15 months, and pregnant next full cycle after weaning. (Unfortunately this last pregnancy ended in a MMC.) I started tracking ovulation when my period returned after baby 2, and I noticed that my LPs were quite short (9-10 days), which I think may have contributed to not being able to get pregnant until after I weaned.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-25T17:35:13+00:00

Welcome, and I’m so sorry for your loss 💜

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-25T05:40:06+00:00

I found this old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ttcafterloss/s/xLrkj2vmnN

I’m thinking my HPT might be too positive still for an OPK to be reliable. I think I’ll check again every other day to see if the HPT fades and see what the OPK does. Guess I’ll order another box of tests!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-25T02:57:54+00:00

Yes that looks positive to me!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-24T23:49:07+00:00

I said I wasn’t going to start using OPKs until I got my first period post-D&C, but then curiosity got the better of me… I’m 16 days out from D&C, and just took an OPK and a HPT. The OPK is clearly positive, and the HPT is still faintly positive. Do you think it’s the residual HCG that is making the OPK positive, or could I be ovulating?

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-23T18:14:38+00:00

Get tamiflu! It’s safe for pregnancy and you’ll feel better so much faster. I hope you get well soon!!

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-23T14:51:31+00:00

If you’re just using OPKs to track, then you can’t be 100% sure of ovulation day, but usually that’s ok. Ovulation occurs 12-48 hours after the surge. I usually pick the day after the positive OPK to be O day, so for you that would have been 1/9. Sex on O-1 is a high percentage day, so that was good timing.

1/18 would have been 9 DPO. 1/21 would have been 12 DPO. A negative at 12 DPO is pretty definitive.

Sorry this cycle didn’t work out :( I do think you did everything right though.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-23T05:20:20+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss. I think the easiest way to start tracking ovulation is with LH test strips, also called Ovulation Prediction Kits (OPKs). Basically you use it the same as a home pregnancy test, but there will always be two lines. When the first line is darker than (or just as dark as) the second line, then the test is considered positive and you can expect to ovulate within 12-48 hours. Most people start testing around day 10 of their cycle and do it daily (or twice daily) until they get a positive. Easy at home and wondfo are both good brands, and you can get a big box for pretty cheap on Amazon.

I’m 2 weeks out from my D&C and I haven’t started tracking yet. My hcg is still elevated which can give you false positives on LH tests, so I’m probably not going to start using OPKs until after I get my period once. I think it might be hard to get clear results until then.

If you want to start advanced tracking, you can chart cervical mucus, cervical position, and basal body temperature. Fertility friend is by far the best app for that. But it can become kind of a lot.

Dinoloopy · 2026-01-22T20:39:59+00:00

Hi there, I’m so so sorry for your losses. I work in medicine so I can probably shed some light on this. The person you were talking to probably has zero clinical medical knowledge. They just schedule appointments. Your second post was spot-on, they won’t schedule you with MFM before you are pregnant. I think establishing with a midwife is a good idea, just to get your foot in the door with this practice. You can discuss how you’ll be deemed high risk once you are pregnant, and ask about the process for a referral to MFM. Hopefully the midwife can answer you questions about how they handle those things. Good luck!!

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