Hi @Jely123, I’m so sorry that you’ve been through so many losses. It’s truly heartbreaking.
I had 4 miscarriages in a row before I had my successful current pregnancy.
I contacted my gp after each one, although a couple I was already under midwife care anyway. I wanted each loss logged on my record so that they would be able to offer me help.
After my third loss I was referred to a fertility consultant where I was given scans to look at my ovaries, look at my follicle count etc, which all looked perfectly normal.
I had lots of blood tests checking for various things, again all normal, as was a semen analysis that my partner did.
We were told there was no reason for the losses.
Amongst all the appointments I had been doing my own research and saw that a low dose of aspirin seemed to help many women sustain a pregnancy.
I decided to give it a try on my next cycle. At 1dpo I started taking 150mg aspirin.
At 8dpo I got another bfp. I was convinced it would all go wrong again. But right from the start it seemed different, my test lines even at 8dpo were very clear and progressed well.
I was sent for an early scan at the EPU due to my previous losses and amazingly at 5+4 we saw a heartbeat! At that appointment they also prescribed me progesterone pessaries to take daily until 16 weeks. I’d had blood tests done to check my progesterone levels and all was great but they said an extra boost wouldn’t do any harm.
I’m now 36 weeks pregnant!
I solely put it down to the aspirin. It’s the one thing I did differently. I took the aspirin every day right up until this week, as I’m booked in for a section next week and was told to stop taking it at 36 weeks.
When I saw my midwife for the first appointment she checked with a consultant who agreed that had I not already started taking the aspirin, she would have put me on it anyway as there are known benefits and would have recommended it as a ‘can’t do any harm but may very well help’ basis.
I know the prospect of possibly being told negative news regarding fertility is a scary one, but think of yourself here and the effect that recurrent losses not only have on your body, but on your mental well being.
If your gp is aware, they can refer you for help.
Wishing you all the luck x