Any older mums had a successful pregnancy after 2 mmcs??

[bearsmom]

I'm 42 and have just had my second missed miscarriage in less than twelve months. I really thought the one I had last year was a one-off but both babies died at 7 weeks so a pattern seems to be developing. With the mmc last year I found out the baby had died at a scan at 10 weeks and had the actual mc the following week, and with this one I found out at a scan last week when I should have been 9 weeks pg and I'm now waiting for the pregnancy to mc naturally as I don't want to take the pills or have a D&C if I can help it.
Are there any older mums reading this who had a successful pregnancy after mmcs? Did you try anything in particular to maintain the pregnancy? (I don't smoke, didn't drink during the pg, I eat healthily and take my folic acid and multivits). I have a ds and have read that women who have sons as their first child tend to have more mcs than those who have girls. Has anyone had the immunoglobulin injections I've read about to try and combat this? Sorry, I'm probably clutching at straws here, and perhaps, as the radiographer suggested, I'm too old, but I don't want ds to be an only and want to do anything I can to make our next try successful (have never had any problem getting pg, it's staying pg that seems to be the problem). Thanks for reading.

[Surfermum]

I found that too, that the D&C drew a line under it, but both my mcs dragged on over 3-4 weeks with various scans and hgc (?) levels that wouldn't drop.

[bearsmom]

Karma, so sorry for your losses and I hope you have better luck next time.

Surfermum and Macmama, thanks for what you said about D&C. Waiting 3-4 weeks for the mcs to happen must have been incredibly difficult, and it's such an awful added cruelty on top of the fact of the mc itself.

Uki, thanks for the tip about those blood tests. I'm going to make an appt to see my GP to ask for them.

Re the radiographer, I'm starting to wonder if there's someone primed to make insensitive ageist comments in every EPU. I had an mc at 5 weeks, before I had ds, and a doctor at the unit I attended for the scan who saw me after I'd had it told me that it was very unlikely I'd conceive again because of my age. I was 36 at the time!!! And I'd conceived at the first try. I can't imagine what is in these people's heads when they say these things. They obviously read tabloid scare stories about maternal age more carefully than they do their patients' notes. Rant over!

Anyway, the actual mc has started now and I'm hoping it'll be over in a week or two.

And then I'm going to concentrate on getting myself onto the pg after mc thread, having taken a huge amount of hope from all your stories.

[RomySchneider]

Bearsmom, I didn't have time to read the whole thread but wanted to let you know that I know of two cases of women in their late 30's who were ttc and had multiple miscarriages.
They were then given 'Heparin' (which needs to be injected) which apparantly acts as a blood thinner and both had successful pregnancies afterwards.
Just as an idea, not sure it applies in your case.

[bearsmom]

Thanks for the tip about Heparin, I'll ask my GP about this.

[SofiaAmes]

My best friend had 5 or 6 miscarriages in her late 30's before finally giving birth to her happy healthy lovely ds who is now 6. Best of luck.

[oaktree]

I had Ds at 38, then 2 mc then DD last year at 41. Never give up!!

[juuule]

I had 2 mmc before I had my dd at 43y9m. I did nothing different but she continued until term(well 2 weeks late). I had erpc for both m/c. I also had 2 m/c after I had dd.