Miscarriages after healthy pregnancies

[MummyEt]

Hi all, just wondering if anyone here has a similar experience to us of consecutive miscarriages following healthy pregnancies?

We've just had two back-to-back miscarriages, having previously had two healthy boys with no miscarriages before or between them. I'm at a point now of feeling like I don't trust my body to carry a baby anymore, like something must have gone wrong with it 😢

I'd be really interested to hear if anyone else has been through similar, and of course would love to hear any happy endings that followed the struggle too ☺️

Thanks mamas x

I had DD then 5 miscarriages and 2 ectopics - losing both tubes in the process by age 36

There is some evidence that suggests you are more likely to miscarry if you have previously had a boy but the study was so small who knows whether it has any merit

Did you have c sections with your boys? C sections also raise the risk of subsequent miscarriages. My ectopics were caused by my c section and c section scarring/adhesions may also cause miscarriages depending on where the baby implants and if the scar tissue affects the placenta performing properly

I would ask you GP to check your thyroid too as if it is out of whack can cause miscarriages.

I have one daughter her pregnancy was fine had 2 miscarriages since her. As over 35 my hospital did some tests my clotting was slightly off, vit D was low so gave me a loading dose of vit D and now take a daily dose. High dose folic acid. If I do get pregnant with give me injections for clothing and progesterone and then low dose aspirin if a viable pregnancy. Unfortunately in the 2 years since my last miscarriage I haven't got pregnant as have PCOS and suck at getting pregnancy and staying pregnant and now 41 so don't think it is going to happen.

@Essexgirlupnorth yes I've heard about getting thyroid checked. Will do that. What dose vitd and folic acid do you take? If it helps when I had my MC last week the consultant told me they regularly see ladies of 45/46/47 giving birth to healthy babies nowadays x

@whosaidtha yeah I've also seen heartbeats in my previous MC. It's such a worry it'll happen again if we do try...but I'm going to look into everyone's suggestions xx

@DrRuthGalloway that's a good way of looking at it! We have said quite a few times how lucky we are with our 2...I did originally say I'd give it till I'm 40..so far I've also conceived relatively quickly within 1-3 months x

Should be 5mg folic acid which you can only get on prescription and can't remember what the dose of vitamin d was

@Essexgirlupnorth thank you x