My fertility Dr only ever asked me to wait two cycles before trying again and I've only just learnt this WHO guidance was 6 months, so I'm pleased it's been found not to be relevent any more or like you that would be caused by guilt on my part.
Ps I always called it the knob (the end of a baguette) so I'm not far off tail!
Interestingly, I was never told to wait either. The NHS advice in the UK seems to be consistent with the new findings, and has been for a while. But I guess without proper evidence you're slightly at the mercy of who your doctor is!
In the US I was only ever told to wait until my period returned to be able to try again. It’s always felt like a moot point for me because the only time we conceived quickly was when I managed to get pregnant the first cycle we tried after I went off the pill in August of 2015 and then miscarried within a couple weeks of finding out I was pregnant. It took 3.5 years before I got pregnant with my daughter, and we didn’t start actively trying again until she was 11 months old (we did use condoms a bit when I was in the postpartum stage where I didn’t have a period, but after my period returned 6 months postpartum, we just avoided sex during the fertile window for 5 months). After my second miscarriage we started trying again as soon as my period returned (which took nearly two months). And after the third miscarriage since it was such an early loss, we were able to start trying again the next cycle. The second shortest time to conception I had was before my third pregnancy when it only took about 8 months to conceive, and I was very shocked thinking about the possibility of having 2 kids less than 2.5 years apart when we’d been trying but also (in my view) not “trying hard,” i.e. only hitting a couple days in the fertile window and not using anything extra to track my cycle. That that was the pregnancy that ended in missed miscarriage felt at the time like it was reiterating the idea in my head that if pregnancy happens too easily for me, it won’t be a successful pregnancy.
My fertility Dr only ever asked me to wait two cycles before trying again and I've only just learnt this WHO guidance was 6 months, so I'm pleased it's been found not to be relevent any more or like you that would be caused by guilt on my part.
Ps I always called it the knob (the end of a baguette) so I'm not far off tail!
Interestingly, I was never told to wait either. The NHS advice in the UK seems to be consistent with the new findings, and has been for a while. But I guess without proper evidence you're slightly at the mercy of who your doctor is!
In the US I was only ever told to wait until my period returned to be able to try again. It’s always felt like a moot point for me because the only time we conceived quickly was when I managed to get pregnant the first cycle we tried after I went off the pill in August of 2015 and then miscarried within a couple weeks of finding out I was pregnant. It took 3.5 years before I got pregnant with my daughter, and we didn’t start actively trying again until she was 11 months old (we did use condoms a bit when I was in the postpartum stage where I didn’t have a period, but after my period returned 6 months postpartum, we just avoided sex during the fertile window for 5 months). After my second miscarriage we started trying again as soon as my period returned (which took nearly two months). And after the third miscarriage since it was such an early loss, we were able to start trying again the next cycle. The second shortest time to conception I had was before my third pregnancy when it only took about 8 months to conceive, and I was very shocked thinking about the possibility of having 2 kids less than 2.5 years apart when we’d been trying but also (in my view) not “trying hard,” i.e. only hitting a couple days in the fertile window and not using anything extra to track my cycle. That that was the pregnancy that ended in missed miscarriage felt at the time like it was reiterating the idea in my head that if pregnancy happens too easily for me, it won’t be a successful pregnancy.