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Fourth consecutive miscarriage - what next?

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BeanDotSprout · 17/08/2017 16:32

I'm currently going through my fourth miscarriage in 14 months and my partner and I are struggling to decide how to move forward. I've not long returned from my reassurance scan and part of me wants to curl up in a ball and keep crying, but my head hurts and I don't think I can cry much more. I feel so heartbroken. My mind is so busy. I think the healthiest thing I can do right now is let this all out.

I have a 3 year old following a healthy and uncomplicated pregnancy. Last June I lost my son at 16 weeks and subsequent losses have been at 4, 6 and 8 weeks. We had a range of tests (which covered recurrent miscarriage testing) following my late miscarriage. This included a postmortem but sadly the genetic testing couldn't be completed and we were left with no answers. But also no reason not to try again according to our consultant and GP.

After our third loss we went private to have karyotyping done and I had uNK cell and MTHFR tests. The only thing that came back positive was that I'm heterozygous for the c677t mutation. However, the private clinic didn't feel this was a concern because I have just one copy of the gene.

Has anyone else been in a similar position and/or are there further steps we can take? Sorry if this is the wrong place to post. Do let me know if there's a specific forum I can ask or if there are others I should join.

And thank you for reading. I feel like I'm going out of my mind and don't know what to think or feel and just need to focus on our future xx

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ifigoup · 17/08/2017 16:35

So sorry for all your losses. I don't know which private clinic you went to, but Profs Quenby and Brosens in Coventry run a University of Warwick centre researching recurrent miscarriage among other things. They diagnosed me with hyperfertility after five miscarriages, and on their regimen I conceived DC (now a healthy and rampaging toddler) after two months. Do think about contacting them if/when you feel ready to do something more.

BeanDotSprout · 17/08/2017 17:50

Thank you for responding to my garbled post. Prof Quenby carried out my uNK cell testing but it was through a clinic in Glasgow. Might get in touch directly as her name has popped up when I've research super/hyper-fertility xx

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