Pregnancy success stories after 2 miscarriages

[nacarlos89]

Hi

I have had 2 miscarriages this year trying to conceive my first child. I'm 32 and have no known illnesses or anything which may impact my fertility.

I had a miscarriage at 5 and half weeks which was probably more like a chemical and got pregnant straight after again. Unfortunately, I then had a mmc at 9 weeks and baby was only measuring 6 weeks (we saw the heartbeat at the first scan).

I had surgical management with the second one on early June and found out yesterday that my hcg is now now to 48 so hopefully my cycles are almost at a point of being reset.

Just wanting to hear some positive stories from people who have had 2 or more miscarriages and had a successful pregnancy just to keep my moral up until my cycle is back. Currently I feel like a failure and that something is wrong with me. I feel like I will never be able to have a child. Some days I'm more positive but I think hearing from other may help.

Thanks in advance ❤️

@chasingtherainbow1 Congrats on your sticky bean :D Did you do anything differently when you got pregnant this time round?

I unfortunately have to try regardless of whether I'm ready or not as I'm quite old now and it takes us forever to get pregnant :(

@TheBirdintheCave thank you. I literally threw everything at it:

• all the vitamins from It Starts With an Egg
• doxycycline for endometritis even though we didn't have to test to see if I had it
• went gluten free and limited carbs
• took myo inositol for very mild pcos

-progesterone from 3dpo

Not sure what it was but something in there worked. I'm 33 so I think my egg quality was declining a bit and I think the vits helped

I’m so sorry for your losses.

I had 4 miscarriages. After the first 3 I was referred to the recurrent miscarriage clinic (although some are accepting patients after 2 so ask your GP for a referral now). They found I had a blood clotting condition, and without medication my chances of a successful pregnancy are less than 1 in 5. I was prescribed aspirin and enoxaparin in my next pregnancy and he arrived exactly a year after my first clinic appointment. I had another miscarriage in August, and progesterone was added for my next pregnancy. I’m now 12 weeks.

It’s important to understand that there is ALWAYS a medical reason for miscarriage. It’s not bad luck. It’s not chance. It’s not just one of those things. Sometimes it’s a problem with the egg, or chromosomes. Sometimes it’s a medical condition like thyroid, blood clotting, even vitamin deficiency, or something else that can be treated with medication to increase your chances of a successful pregnancy next time.

I hope you don’t think I’m being unkind here as it’s not my aim. After my second miscarriage the doctors were still saying - the odds of you having a successful pregnancy next time are good. What they should have been saying, rather than giving false hope and kind but unhelpful encouragement to keep trying, was that after 2 miscarriages the chances of a 3rd in a row is about 40%. This is why most countries outside the U.K. offer testing after 2. The U.K. doesn’t because it’s expensive and there are waiting lists. If your GP won’t refer you for investigation yet, and you can afford it, I recommend that as a minimum you look at private blood testing for clotting and thyroid to rule out any issues. I think it was about £300 at my local hospital but I’ve seen it lower shopping around.

Wishing you all the luck in your next pregnancy xxx

Missed the zombie thread!

NRTFT (and maybe there’s an update in it!) but hope OP got a happy ending and for anyone still in this awful cycle my advice above remains the same x

@Littlegoth It's ok, it's been revived and is currently active. I must admit I didn't even notice that it was an old thread 😂

Interesting about your statistics. I do agree with you that there is always a medical cause and I'm currently having the thyroid and clotting tests done by a private fertility clinic.

However, I did the Tommy's miscarriage calculator thing and it put my chance of a successful pregnancy next time at 79% (which is basically normal).

Where did you get the 40% chance of another miscarriage from? Everywhere I look it says that the chance of three in a row is 1%.

@TheBirdintheCave sorry bird - got my stats a bit ahead. I’ll correct here. If you take every woman, 1% will have 3 or more miscarriages.

The more miscarriages you have, the more likely you are to have more - one miscarriage points to a chromosome or genetic issue, lightning striking. 2 or more is more shows a pattern and is likely to be underlying medical cause that needs treatment. After 1 your risk is similar to women who have had none, about 20%. After 2 it’s 25-30%. 3 or more it’s about 40%. This is looking at all women, but depending on the underlying cause you’ve got issues like mine that give me an 80% chance of miscarriage (although treated now I’ve got a 75% chance of success even though I’ve had several miscarriages).

That’s just the ones that are recorded too. Tommy’s are working so hard to change it but there’s still very little research into miscarriage.

I got the figures from my recurrent miscarriage clinics

@Littlegoth I guess I'm screwed then 😂 We already have a toddler born in 2020 so it was a big surprise for us to have two miscarriages in a row. They were different though, if that counts for anything. The first was a blighted ovum and the second we had a heartbeat at six weeks but then the baby died around 8 weeks. I was also ill around 3-4 weeks both times first with food poisoning and secondly with hand, foot and mouth virus.

@TheBirdintheCave I’ve definitely been at the point where I thought it wasn’t going to happen! I had three miscarriages 2018-19. The first I found out at 14 weeks, but it hadn’t developed past 4 weeks. The second was a blighted ovum. The third was always measuring behind, although we saw a heartbeat at 7 weeks I miscarried at 9 weeks.

APS causes tiny clots in the placenta which interfere with implantation. The egg doesn’t implant securely and so doesn’t develop, or develops slowly, but ultimately results in pregnancy loss. Each of my losses was different but still likely due to untreated APS.

My next pregnancy was right after diagnosis and went well with medication, so it was quite a shock to miscarry again in August - I thought with a diagnosis and treatment I had little to worry about. Another blighted ovum so progesterone was added. I’m over 40 so worth trying. This one is fine so far but I’m on aspirin, enoxaparin and progesterone.

I had food poisoning around when my 4th stopped developing but the clinic told me it was very unlikely to have caused my miscarriage. Got my fingers crossed that your next pregnancy goes smoothly x

@TheBirdintheCave I saw a nutritionist, she recommended a low carb diet, decaf, no alcohol and a load of supplements. Happy to pass on her details if you like x

@Littlegoth Thank you. At the moment I can't even imagine getting pregnant again as it took so long last time. I'll be interested to see if my blood tests show anything up.

@MattieandmummyandIs I'm doing most of that already I think :( Except the low carbs, my life is miserable enough at the moment without cutting out carbs 😂

I had 6 miscarriages then have had two babies to term who are now at school! What made a difference was progesterone and low dose aspirin. I decided due to NHS waits to go private but had very limited funds. So my consultants suggest instead of tests just to try these as a first try regiment. It worked on the first attempt.