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Trying after a miscarriage

It’s difficult to pinpoint what causes a miscarriage. Fertilisation of your egg takes place in one of your fallopian tubes. The development then continues while the fertilised egg continues its journey towards the ‘relative’ safety of the prepared womb lining. This means that it’s still possible to have some slight bleeding from the womb lining itself for the first 10–12 weeks (often around the time when a period would have occurred) then your developing egg will implant itself.

Sometimes the fertilised egg shrinks and is rejected before it reaches the womb lining. This, too, can give a ‘brown’ loss (which is actually stale, old blood that was lost many hours previously). There’s more information, which you may find helpful, in my article ‘Getting pregnant after a miscarriage’.

It is true that in the early weeks of pregnancy – before your fertilised egg becomes fixed in the womb – vigorous sexual intercourse could disturb it and it may not fix itself to the wall of the uterus. This is also why particularly vigorous sporting activities should be avoided in the first few weeks of pregnancy.

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