Recurrent Miscarriage Support - tests, treatment, trying again - thread 9

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Welcome everyone - pull up a chair! A thread for anyone who has suffered multiple miscarriages and is in need of information, moral support, tea or sympathy. Newbies very welcome.

Can we start the thread with a recap of where we are all up to again, please?

yay tanny and jbrd lovely news. Join the rest of us with our regular knicker checking

Yay to the BFP tanny and jbrd! I have everything crossed for you both.

katie I would ask your GP for blood tests if you are post ERPC & you are worried. I was getting weird ongoing BFPs after one of mine and they did blood tests one week apart to check that the hormone level was going down. If it doesn't think they send you for a scan to see what's going on.

Congrats jbrd as well

Hi Katie and welome, sorry to hear of your losses, six is rather a lot, can't imagine how you must feel. I've no idea in the regards to your question though I do know them conception indicators can be highly inaccurate!

Congrats Tanny and jbrd your so patient waiting to test! Bless your DP, mine didn't overreact either though, he didn't want too get his hopes up at all.

notgivingup i think it is fine to take them, BNF have an onine website you can type in the tablet and it brings up all the info for you though if you want to reassure yourself.

Hows bruise watch squiz?

I spoke too soon the other day. Woke up and felt so sick then was sick, first time so far. Feel bloody awful today, managed to eat some dry toast but I don't know if it will stay down. Seeing midwife next friday, hurrah!

Wow - what a morning! Congratulations to tanny and jbrd hope some 2014 positivity rubs off on you both.
katie have you had a negative test since your last miscarriage? Hopefully this is a new pregnancy for you too. If your urine was more dilute on the second test you might get a negative early on so I'd take the subsequent BFPs as a good sign. Step away from the clearblue tests, they will drive you potty.

Thanks all for your advice! This is definitely a new pregnancy, got negative tests 4 weeks after my erpc and we started ttc again when we got a positive opk a few weeks ago. My DH keeps telling me to stop testing but I can't help thinking the progesterone will hide if it doesn't progress properly. Have been offered early scans but I tend to dread scans because since my DS nearly 4years ago we never get good news!
Will have to just keep everything crossed and just see how this plays out.

Well I am due on this weekend so might test on Monday if nothing happens... but i half not want to be pregnant as it means i can check when I ovulate to sort out the appointment with Professor Q

At the moment the only thing to do if I do get pregnant now is to increase my thyroxine as soon as I get a BFP

Congratulations tanny and Jbrd!

Also to you katie, hope they are all sticky ones x

Thanks everyone!

Feeling very wobbly about the next few weeks, so won't be able to get excited about it just yet.

Having your understanding makes a massive difference...

Tiny best of luck either way!

Tanny wobbly is understandable. We can wobble together, I'm nuts again after brief post scan sanity.

Just spent 10 minutes staring at a pant liner (TMI) trying to work out if cm was cream ... Or white with a bit of dreaded brown. The clue should have been it took 10 minutes of staring at something off-white (TMI 2) on something white. Durrrr.

Maybe we need CM colour charts....

One day at a time. Someone said that the days in limbo when you suspect a miscarriage but haven't had it confirmed are in "dog years" each day lasts for seven. I think early pregnancy after MC is the same.

Yep Baking ... Just waiting for (and hoping to reach) the next stage! Taking a day at a time!

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a suitable thread and this seems like a good place.

I found out I was pregnant 2 days ago and can hardly believe it! I am 40 and this is my fourth pregnancy:

2010: beautiful DD arrived after emcs. Our joy.
2011: mc: beautiful DS born at 23 weeks, just below the threshold of viability and died.
2012: mc: tiny baby girl at 14 weeks.

Tests after my first mc showed I have factor v Leiden (thrombophilia) but otherwise all is normal. I was advised to take aspirin and heparin. After the second mc my consultant suggested I should carefully think before trying again. I left it for a few months then got an appointment with st Mary's where they found that I have significant cervical damage following the delivery of dd1. A cervical stitch should help with this..

So here I am. It has taken me one whole year to get the courage to try agsin and I am pregnant straight off ( I know We are incredibly lucky this way).

So the plan is to be as hopeful as possible; get the heparin injections ASAP, then hope we get as far as 14wks to have the stitch. Bated breath until week 24 though...

So congrats and good luck wishes to all the ladies that are pregnant on here. And sending positive fertility thoughts to anyone ttc (dd was a honeymoon baby so conception is my forte!).

I might lurk for a bit or drop in and out (sometimes distraction works very well for me:-)), but am sending positive baby baking thoughts to the thread.

Hi Tayto are you from NI by any chance? I had a Uni flatmate from C Antrim who used to import Tayto crisps by the boxful!
I'm sorry to hear about your losses. I hope that this time the combination of treatments works for you. That's 4 of you all with BFPs in the last few days so your anxiety will have good company. We are determined to have lots of thread babies in 2014.

And I'll take any positive baby baking thoughts that are going!

Thanks baking. I'm actually from the south of Ireland- you were not far off. Many congratulations on your pregnancy. Great to be just over half way now!

My friend advised on turning all thoughts to imagine baby "sticking", "burrowing", " attaching", "binding", "affixing" etc! I'm not sure I'd go that far but it cant do to any harm.

4+3 now - such a long way to go...I can't quiet imagine it actually happening. But I am very hopeful..

Hello welcome Tayto these early days do go slowly don't they...

baking that sounds about right. I've managed to calm down a bit about the cm but like squiz every so often I get in a tizz over nothing.

Feel sick again this morning, seems to go on for a few hours, feel better in the afternoon then starts again late at night. It's horrible but I must be mad as I'm enjoying feeling this way as it's giving me some positivity that things might be OK.

Welcome Tayto - so glad you got to st Marys and they got to the root of your conditions. Fx for this bean!

Downstairs not having massive sickness, but like you it's a Sicky sandwich of nauseous mornings, day ok, evening queaze.

At 3+2 I'm already experiencing severe nausea, morning and evening and before and after eating. This is earlier and more intense than in all my MCs, and I wonder if taking progesterone has had an influence.

Here's hoping I continue to feel this ill!

Hi, do you mind if I join?

My history: 1DC (aged 17), 1 ectopic - sept/09, 2x MC both at 6 weeks 2011 and 1 MMC at 11 weeks 2 days ago.

I'm sort of reeling at the moment, can't stop crying but after my ERPC yesterday I has bloods taken and will have some more taken in 6 weeks and be seen in the RMC in 3 months. I have no idea what happens there. Do you have decent experiences?

Hi kirin so sorry to hear your heartbreaking story. It's good news they've referred you. Several of us here have had tests which have diagnosed conditions (or equally ruled things out) and speaking personally I found the process very helpful both physically and mentally. I hope you will too.

Hi kirin - so sorry to hear of your dreadful losses. It must be very hard for you right now. Thinking of you x.

Thanks for the welcome ladies.

Hi all - another rather obvious anxiety dream from me last night's involved Mr Raj Rai poking my belly once and saying "Oh no you're not pregnant anymore" with no scans, bloods etc. Even in the dream I was like "err how can you tell exactly?". Then I woke up feeling vomitous with no blood in knickers which was immediately reassuring. Think it's because week 7 (today) was when I had one of my losses so it's at the forefront of my mind.

...also made the error of reading several MMC stories before bed yesterday. Need to stay away from them! No good for the noggin.

Welcome kirin and sorry for the losses you've been through. It's good that you are now getting the ball rolling on testing. It helps to be doing something proactive.