4th miscarriage: surely there more than can be done?

[FH14]

Brief history, currently experiencing my 4th miscarriage in just over a year. Two natural and two MMC; one found at 12 weeks scan to be 6 weeks, and one found at 8 week scan to be 7 weeks. None survive past 7 weeks.

I've had all the NHS test done and everything has come back fine. My husband has children already.

I take vitamins, already have a healthy diet, and regularly go to the gym, I've tried baby aspirin...I don't know what else to do.

I'm currently feeling really down about it, so some kind words of people with similar stories or some ideas of what I can do now would be greatly appreciated!! 🙏🏽

I am so sorry to hear this. What a year to have had. I sincerely hope 2019 is your year.

What struck me was the ease at which you've quickly fallen pregnant each time and I wondered whether it might be worth looking into super fertility, where the normal screening of sub-optimal embryos doesn't happen and the womb isn't fussy about letting non-viable embryos implant.

There's lots of information online that you might find interesting.

Wishing you all the best and hope you get the help and support you need for a healthy pregnancy to term.

Dr Shehata at Epsom hospital on nhs - or you can go private. I had 3 miscarriages in the space of 6 months (never took more than two months to fall pregnant. Scans showed I never got beyond 6 weeks). His clinic tests for more immune stuff than standard NHS clinics. I was prescribed prednisone for high natural killer cells and my next pregnancy resulted in my ds.

I’m so sorry for your losses, it’s a horrendous thing to go through.

I second Dr Shehata. I was treated for natural killer cells and now have a DS too.

FH14 such a dreadful time for you. I am so sorry for your losses. I had a mmc, my DD, 4 mmc and finally after many years of heartbreak my DS. I had lots of tests but finally St Mary's in London found I had a genetic variant of MTHFR which stopped me processing folic acid properly. With extra folic acid and anti coagulant injections I made it through pregnancy number 7. It can happen. Best of luck.

Gosh, you guys don't understand the hope you've given me.

My husband told me last night that unless we find a test that finds something wrong and a way to fix it then he doesn't want to try again...which is easy for him to say when he has two kids, but as lovely as they are, they're not enough for me. He doesn't grieve well.

Yes I do fall pregnant very easily. It always happens first time. The pregnancy that ended in June only happened 6 months after the one before because my hormones were coming down so slow that I didn't receive a negative test till then, and this December pregnancy was only because we waited 19 weeks for my d&c result to come back (which I've been lied to all these weeks to find out about a week ago that they never took a tissue sample which I'm devastated about!)

I will look into super fertility and at Dr Shehata. Thank you all so much. 💖

Lots of good advice already! My trust has a miscarriage consultant, we tried quarter aspirin daily, high concentration folic acid daily, lots of reassurance scans and HCG jabs in first trimester. Now got two children, albeit 10&6 so probably more research done since then
good luck 🍀

Another option aside from those suggested is to look into genetic testing, one of the biggest causes of miscarriage is genetic abnormalities in the embryos and even at 35 a woman will likely produce an equal number of aneuploid embryos (abnormal) as euploid (normal) it is worth getting further testing done on yourself of course before considering PGS and I myself have a baby and another on the way following miscarriage and infertility with a combination of steroids, blood thinners, intramuscular progesterone and aspirin but be careful not to get too sucked into immunology and other testing as whilst some is evidence based like MTHR and C4MT a lot isn't and it can get very very expensive for the testing and treatment

Sorry to sound thick, but it genetic testing the same as chromosome testing? I was meant to have chromosome testing done when I had my d&c but they forgot to take a sample so husband and I have had chromosome blood tests done. Is it the same?