A miscarriage can be devastating for couples anxious to have a child. While some women need a lot more time to heal, some women want to try as soon as possible to have another child, particularly when it was an early miscarriage.

While a woman may need time to recover psychologically from a miscarriage, a woman who has had a miscarriage will be ready for conception once her regular cycle returns to normal following the miscarriage. During pregnancy, ovulation is suppressed due to a hormone released by the pituitary gland called hCG. After the miscarriage, the hCG levels will drop, allowing your regular ovulation cycle to start again. This usually takes approximately 2 weeks, but depends on the level of hCG that was present in the woman’s system prior to the miscarriage.

Unfortunately, it is hard to predict when the next period and ovulation will occur after a miscarriage. It depends on the type of miscarriage and the cause of the miscarriage. It also depends on how far along the woman was prior to the miscarriage. However, for common, uncomplicated miscarriages, generally a woman with a regular cycle will have a period within approximately 4-6 weeks following the miscarriage.

To know when you first ovulate after a miscarriage, it is recommended that a woman track her ovulation cycle, using the basal body temperature method or cervical mucus monitoring. It is highly recommended that you consult with your doctor following a miscarriage before attempting to get pregnant again. You can ask your doctor for more information about how to do this accurately. To confirm if you are ovulating, you can use an ovulation predictor test to detect ovulation following a miscarriage.