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Annika has two little ones at home, three and one and a half. She also knows what it is to lose a pregnancy. Earlier this year, a surprise pregnancy ended in a chemical loss, and in the weeks that followed she found herself waiting on a cycle that would not come back on schedule. This is how she started trying again, and how learning to read her own body gave her something to hold onto.
Starting over after a loss
The loss in March changed how Annika saw everything. It also made one thing very clear to her: how much she wanted another baby. But her body did not bounce back on a neat timeline. After the bleeding stopped, she counted the days and waited, unsure when things would feel normal again.
“After the bleeding stopped from that loss, it took 36 days before I had a regular cycle.”
Those 36 days came with a worry that a lot of women will recognize. If her cycles were going to run long, finding her fertile window would mean more testing and more uncertainty every month.
Tracking before Premom, and what was missing
Before Premom, Annika used FEMM to follow her cycles. It gave her a place to log the basics, but it left a gap she could feel.
“It was a good basic tool, but not having the LH strips made it so I really didn’t know what was happening.”
Why she chose Premom
She had come across Premom a few years earlier, during an even harder chapter. Her first pregnancy had ended in a loss, and she was looking for anything that might help. She had been about to buy a well-known fertility monitor, but as a newlywed watching every dollar, the cost did not fit. Premom’s strips were affordable, so that is where she started.
When it finally clicked
Learning her body did not happen overnight. Annika is honest that it took real time before the pieces came together.
“It actually took me a year before I really got the hang of it.”
Along the way, she conceived her second son. Afterward, she kept tracking through the postpartum stretch, giving her body room to heal. That was the season when everything she had been learning finally settled into place.
“It took three months tracking postpartum for me to understand how my body worked, and then it all clicked.”
How she approaches her fertile window now
When she and her husband decided to try again after the loss, Annika had a plan grounded in what she now understood about her own cycle. They spaced things out early on, then leaned in once her fertile window opened. She kept reading the health and wellness tips in the Premom app and uploading her easy@Home ovulation test strips so she could see her results instead of guessing at them.
This time, her timing lined up with her fertile window, and that cycle led to a pregnancy. Annika is currently 10 weeks along. She is careful to say it came down to understanding her own body well enough to know when her window opened, and to keep going after everything the past year had held.
What Annika wants other women to know
More than any tracking detail, this is what she wanted to pass on. She is clear-eyed about how heavy trying again can feel.
“Trying to conceive after a loss is so hard. The unknown of will I get pregnant, and will the pregnancy stick, is such a tough mental hurdle to get through. If it doesn’t happen after a few months, there’s no shame in getting help and looking for outside resources.”
