Pregnancy after Early Miscarriage

[JessT94]

I’m hoping for a little bit of advice & maybe some info on what helped others.

Over the past 3 years we’ve been trying for a baby, after unexpectedly falling pregnant & realising how much we wanted it, so after our first miscarriage we started trying. We struggled to conceive & I found that I wasn’t ovulating regularly. I went on to research & came across Maca Root (life saver), it done exactly what I read it would, it regulated everything & had me ovulating, as well as managing to conceive, that’s the good part, however… I can’t seem to get past very early pregnancy, I spoke to my GP in Sept & she advised that she’d spoken to gynaecology & they’d told her if I had another early miscarriage in the future, after this point they would prescribe me progesterone, fast forward to now having gotten married etc at the start of the year we started trying again in May, to my surprise I found out I was pregnant! Although it’s happening again, I’m having another early miscarriage, I’ve contacted my GP & await to hear back from her for the next steps ready for hopefully when I next get a positive test but I wondered if there was anything anyone has done after having an early miscarriage that has helped them go on to have a successful pregnancy?

I'm really just looking to see if there’s anything else I can be doing.

thank you in advance.

Hi @JessT94

Can I just start by saying I am truly so sorry for your losses- I have been through 3 miscarriages in a 7 month period (1 at 5 weeks, 1 at 10 weeks but had stopped growing at 6 weeks and 1 at roughly 6 weeks) and I know how utterly devastating it is.

I just posted my own story on here- I am currently on my 4th pregnancy but like you I couldn’t seem to hold onto pregnancies any longer than 6 weeks- I was referred to the recurrent loss clinic and was given the below medication. I am now 13 weeks pregnant and after 3 reassurance scans our little bubba is wiggly and healthy

1. 100mg eltroxin (I was always on this)
2. Progesterone (400mg once a day from 3dpo and then upped to twice a day from positive pregnancy test
3. Innohep once a day (for a blood clotting disorder I have always known about however this is the first time I was prescribed from positive pregnancy test
4. baby aspirin in evenings
5. high dose folic acid

I hope this might be helpful and wish you so much hope and success for any future pregnancies you will have ❤️

Ask to be referred to the recurrent miscarriage clinic locally or to a Tommy's clinic if you are near one. They will be able to run lots of test after this miscarriage and before you try again. My doctor also ran alot of blood tests while we were waiting for the referral to come through. I was lucky to have a doctor who had an special interest in fertility issues so they were more willing to be accommodating and run tests to see if they could prescribe anything to help.

I had the help of Tommy's in Birmingham with my last pregnancy (after a stillbirth and 2 miscarriages) and they are great. I was on progesterone from 6 weeks to 26ish weeks. I started late - usually I think they have you on it from ovulation and I was on it longer than most - usually they stop at 16 weeks.

I also on the advise of the people who had similar experiences changed my pre pregnancy vitamins I was on to a company that was targeted at treating infertility and fertility issues. Both my husband and me took supplements. I was on like 6 a day and it cost a fortune but I do think it made a huge difference. They had a higher than normal level of folic acid along with alot of other things which supposedly helped.

Another thing I did was overhaul my diet. No alcohol at all. Focus on non-processed heathy food. Our diet got pretty rubbish in the hardest points of our journey so removing those unhealthy foods helped.

I really do wish you luck on your journey. My story had a happy ending (she is now 2.5 year old, happy, healthy whirlwind). There were some dark point where I never though I would bring home another baby. My fertility issues happened after what we know realise was a mircle first baby with no issues. But with the help of Tommy's, it did happen eventually.

@SJC2015 this is so helpful, I have had 4 early miscarriages in a year. Can I ask what supplements you changed to that you felt helped?

I'm so sorry for your hard journey this year so far.

I took Zita West tablets. I took the fertility package for women for 3 months between my last MMC and successful pregnancy then took the vital essence for trimester 1 and 2. I stopped in trimester 3. My still birth was caused my a developmental issue so I wanted to get to the third trimester before I stopped any extra things. My MMCs we didn't know the issue (never tested as it was pre my tommy's referral) but they assumed something similar. My husband just took the initial men's package for the 3 months. They are expensive but I said I would give it a go for a few months (in my head I had around 6) and if they didn't make a difference I would stop. I think they recommend being on them 3 months for them to take full effect if you get what I mean.

It may or may not have had an effect but it was the biggest change I made. They were initially a gift from a family member who suffered with infertility so I thought it was worth a try while waiting for my tommy's referral. I found out I was pregnant with my successful pregnancy while doing the pre appointment pregnancy test for tommys.

Amazing side effect was a felt great, my hair and skin were amazing!!! My energy levels were up and all in all I felt pretty good when I was taking them