Successful pregnancy after Blighted Ovum?

I just have to say, I am so glad to have found this thread!! :)

I was diagnosed with a Blighted Ovum in November last year and ended up having a D&C in December... I have only just found out about a week ago that I am pregnant again and while we are very excited we are extremely nervious and can't wait to have our first scan! I wondered if I should of been feeling the way I was but my thoughts are exactly what everyone has desricbed in this thread.

hayles - hi there and welcome to what seems to have a become pregnancy after blighted ovum thread! haha almost like a belly buddies group! i hope all goes well with you and the nerves never stop trust me! im over halfway and still am scared everyday! its sad how that stupid little sac takes away all the excitement of getting a BFP isnt it.

Thanks...

It just great to know that someone else is in the same boat as me iykwim. :) Over half way, that's exciting! I can't wait to have a ultrasound to put my mind at ease...

I know exactly what you mean. I was so scared when I found out I was pregnant after the blighted ovum. It took us so long to get pregnant before the blighted ovum and then a few months later I was pregnant again! It was a HUGE shock and a whole lot of nerves followed!! I am still nervous every time I go to the doctor for a check up, but I am starting to feel a few little movements here and there and that eases my mind.

I am sure everything will be fine with your pregnancy this time. We are all sticking together and updating each other on our good news. Every little bit of good news helps.

We just had our ultrasound today. I am 19 weeks and we found out it is a healthy girl! Everything looks good and we are VERY excited!!! Can't wait to hear from others.

Hi girls ! I was diagnosed with blighted ovum 1 mth ago. My doctor prescribed me meds for miscarrige as I refused to have D&C. It was reall shock for me and my husband. We were told to go ahead with next trying for a baby after my first period. We are ready now to try again as I am mentaly and physicly ok. I was just wondering if any of you had similar situation and went to have healthy baby after. ??? Many thanks!

Hi nell30,

My doctor told us to wait until I'd had 3 normal periods before trying. We didn't use any contraceptive because it took us almost 2 years to get pregnant and I figured 3 months is no problem. To my surprise in 3 months we were pregnant again. I am now 24 weeks and am having a normal pregnancy. Just had a doctor's visit and my glucose test and it is wonderful hearing the baby's heart beat. I am just now feeling confident that this will be a normal pregnancy all the way to the end.

I am happy to hear that you are physically and emotionally okay. You may be a little surprised when you get pregnant again at some fears you may develop. At least I was. Good luck with your next pregnancy. It should be a happy and exciting time.

Hi Momof2.5 ;) ! Many thanks for reply. It's really good to hear that someone went throught the same think as me. I know there is more of us out there after ,, blighted ovum ,, I just didn't realised how commune it was. I just pray every day , that wont happen again . We were TTC only 2 months before so we try to be positive. But deep inside there is this fear ...
I am so glad to hear that you you and your pregnancy is going well :lol: !

nell - hi there! it took me and my DF 18 months to make our "blighted ovum" i had d and c and was told to try after my next period i did and it took 9 months next time round which is still a long time! but am now almost 30 weeks with a big baby boy and all is fine! i never thought it would happen as my DF has very low sperm count and we were booked in for IVF but we did it!

Hi there ! Congratulations on your pregnancy ! I hope all will go well ;) ! It's so important to hear from all of you ... It's a real relive to know that all can finish with a ,, happy ending ,, We are going to start TTC very soon so I will be in touch to let you know. Many, many thanks!

I was glad when I found this forum and all the coments are very encouraging. I had a early miscarige at 6 weeks. Then accidently got pregnant right away, which ended up being blighted ovum. I thought I was 8 weeks but my sac only made it to 6. Ended up having a D & C because I was bleeding very badly. Its only been a little while since my D & C, but I'm going to be sure to wait my 3 full cycles befor TTC again! Of course that is hard when you want a baby now. I'm glad to have read some success stories on here!

I know this thread is old but I did a search on Google and it came up, I had a missed miscarriage (ended in d&c) 3 weeks ago and DH and I are gonna try again after 1 natural cycle, I'm already scared about the thought of being pregnant again and being told again that there's no hearbeat, so it is absolutely BRILLIANT to read stories where it all turned out ok :)

Hi Kit
I am sorry to hear of your loss. You absolutely can take comfort in seeing many of us go on to normal healthy pregnancies. It did not stop me from being paranoid, anxious, scared, crazy and anything else you can think of from the moment I found out I was pregnant again - but at the 20 week scan all my fears disolved.
And now I have perfect wee girl.
Good luck on your TTC journey.
Wishing you a healthy and happy pregnancy for your next one.
Sanchez

Just saw this come up in new posts and just wanted to tell my story!

After 2yrs of unexplained infertility and TTC we had a blighted ovum for our first pregnancies. After alot of u/s and umming and ahhing I ended up with a d&c. I was waiting for my cycle to return but it never did; we'd gotten pregnant sometime in the weeks after the surgery! Bub is now a healthy 3yo and I have gone on to have TWO more happy and healthy little boys, all within 2.5yrs. So it is possible to go on and have kids without anymore blighted ovums :)

I have 2 healthy children, a boy 16 and a girl 9! I am 35..

On December 10, 2009 I had a D&C due to a blighted ovum, I was 13 1/2 weeks :(

I still cannot make sense of it, I was already beginning to show! I would lay awake at night and talk to my belly, so many plans and dreams all gone! The love you already feel!

No one around me including my husband seems to understand it!

My husband has no children of his own, this was to be his first! He wants to try again right away, I am terrified! and his lack of emotion with this loss is not to encouraging.

He says everything happens for a reason and we will have a baby.

I barely held it together with this tragedy and I do not think I could go through it again, it was such a complete shock! I never even heard of a blighted ovum until I was told I have one.

Oh Mom........:hug:
I can feel the pain you feel.....only because I have felt it too - I think we all have in this thread.
I was so happy to be having my first scan, so excited to see my baby...and those words "something is not right here" will haunt me forever.

Your fears and feelings are so justified after what you have just been through, and I know my DH didn't understand the grief I felt. He was very much like yours, just wanted to try again. He didn't realize how much that pregnancy was part of me and that loss was like losing a part of myself. I was terrified when we started trying, but here we are now with our girl, so I can never say it wasn't worth the pain.

If you need to grieve, then give yourself the time to grieve. But as you can see from this thread, the next time you will get the beautiful babe you long for.

Lots of hugs

I am really glad to have found this thread and just joined the site so I could post on here.

I had a chemical pregnancy in July of last year and got pregnant again straight away.

We were really excited and even had a scan at about eight weeks when the dr told me it was all fine (although he could not see a heartbeat!)

In October at about 11 weeks we drove to the nearest big hospital for our scan (about 3hours away) only to be told the sac was empty - it was a blighted ovum. I had a d and c straight away and was told to wait a couple of cycles before trying again.

It took about a week longer than normal for my period to come back and then my cycle had changed but I have just found out I am preggers again after only really trying for one month! :)

I am almost afraid to get excited until I see a heartbeat and am trying to keep a lid on all my plans until I know this bean is sticky!!

It has given me great hope to read everyone's success stories so thanks heaps for posting! :clap:

Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum, but felt like i needed some support from other women who had been through the same thing. I had a healthy pregnancy that ended in a healthy baby boy in 2006. After 2 years of trying we found out we were pregnant again in October 2008. I had early ultrasounds b/c I was considered high risk after complications with my son. I thought i was around 4 weeks, my dr informed me that there was a sack but no baby. He said it may be too early and sent me home. The next two weeks went the same way and on the last visit I was told that it was not a viable pregnancy due to blighted ovum. I ended up having a d & c and bleeding for 2 months. I just found out that I am pregnant again and both my husband and I are scared to death that this will happen a second time.

Oh Vyramey
You are certainly only feeling what's so normal at this point, and I have stood in your same shoes.
I'm sure reading this thread you can see that many women have gone on to have very successful pregnancies after their previous B.O.

For me, I was petrefied out of my mind up until I had a dating scan which was normal and showed a heartbeat. Then I was still scared leading up to the 12 week scan because of course there was more chance for something to be wrong. Then I was anxious leading up to the 20 week, I guess because it is still an opportunity for them to find something wrong. I had a 34 week scan just because I wanted it...... And finally at 34 weeks I let myself truely believe that everything was ok and my bub was healthy.

So very very normal for you to be feeling what you are. Hang in there until the first scan and you will see that this pregnancy is very different.
What's the old saying... Lightning doesn't strike twice!

Hang in there.....sending you lots of hugs and positive vibes :hug:

i had 3 blighted ovums last year and i'm pregnant again and so scared i think its going to happen again x please help

So thankful to find this thread.

DH and I have undergone our 2nd IVF attempt recently and suspected it was ectopic early on because I had a couple of bleeds early on and I had a lot of muscle aches and pains and after the bleeds I was still showing positive readings on HPT's and BT's. Ive also had very low progesterone. At my 1st ultrasound which we had at 5.5 weeks because of suspected ectopic there was something in the uterus about the correct size but there was no heartbeat. Obviously it was probably a bit early for a heartbeat but Ive had no other pregnancy signs and right now AF is just about due and Ive got feelings - strong signs that AF is coming. The 2nd bleed I had was also very clotty and heavy (sorry if TMI). So now Im really thinking this could be blighted ovum. Still a chance it might not be but it is good to read that people have been able to get pregnant pretty soon after a blighted ovum.

So thank you everyone for sharing your stories. It is also great that we can all have support for any losses etc and we can help each other to cope.
Good luck to everyone on their journey's with children!

Ive just had another blood test so that might shed some more light and I will be having another ultrasound in about 2 weeks time. Only time will tell I guess and I just have to hang in there. Any encouragement would be appreciated.
Once again GL everyone!