Recurrent miscarriage - What factors where causing it and did you get your rainbow baby?

[Kent91]

Hi,

I'm a mum to a 2.5 year old. Since summer '24 i've had 3 back to back miscarriages in 7 months- all early loses. They all showed slow rising HCG, I could tell by the premom preg tests. My 1st and 3rd were chemical pregnancies at 5.5w. My second was a PUL at 7.5w.

I've started testing for possible causes - did you find out what you had? What was it? And please tell me you had your rainbow baby?

I'm 33, non smoker, not a massive drinker and have a healthy weight, and other than having a toddler, my lifestyle/health hasn't changed since 2022. I got pregnant straight away with my son and with my miscarriages too... there is just something not working..

I had a hysteroscopy and a biopsy for the EMMA and ALICE yesterday, done privately, as the NHS won't see me until July. I'll report back

Update #2
i’m rocking my 6 week old rainbow baby to sleep.

To recap, I had a second biopsy and a second Emma and Alice test performed, and it showed I still had a bacterial imbalance so had a second round of antibiotics. I probably should have waited for a 3rd biopsy to be on the clear but I got pregnant straight away (a month after my last update)

I did take progesterone and aspirin until I was 16 weeks (recurrent loss protocol) and also took oral vaginal probiotics for the duration of the pregnancy, as well as vaginal probiotic pessaries for the first week.

I truly believe that the (somewhat silent) uterine infection was causing the miscarriages (implantation failure due to inflammation) and that without antibiotics I would have kept having early losses.

Listen to your gut (in this case uterus) ladies! Don’t let fertility professionals gaslight you and listen to your body. Hoping this post will help women in similar situations.

@Kent91 delighted to hear your update, huge congratulations. So much useful info on this thread, I'm sure it will be a big help to many.

I was exact same recurrent miscarriages with chronic endometritis secondary to retained products. I had oral antibiotics and then needed to go private for antibitoic washes and fell pregnant that month. I have a 18 week old now. NHS told me endometritis doesn’t cause miscarriage….. I beg to differ. My private constant gave such a good analogy how can a seed grow in bad soil that resonated so much with me!

As far as i’m aware, tests like the Emma and Alice are not even covered by the NHS anyway. Even searching the word ‘Endometritis’ on platforms like Instagram and Tik Tok would bring up results for ‘EndometriOSIS’ instead… Staff at the EPU didn’t seem to be that aware either.

it was my own symptoms and copious amount of research and a healthy dose of back and forth with Chat GPT that lead be down this road.

So pleased to hear about your baby! ☺️

Sorry for your losses.

I had multiple miscarriages, referred to RMC, had all the tests, nothing ever detected. One of my lost babies was tested too but the results were inconclusive. I therefore had and still have no answers. That was very tough.

Eventually, I got pregnant in the pandemic and against all odds, everything went ok this time, with some third trimester complications, but ok.

I was on progesterone and baby aspirin in my succesful pregnancy but there was no clear reason for it based on nothing being identified, it was just NICE guidelines.

The only other difference was I was WFH. Maybe less stress? Not sure.

My personal view is endometriosis was the reason. I had no diagnosis then and nobody investigated the links anyway, only more recently Tommy's are researching this topic.

It's such a rough ride. Sending you lots of good wishes and strength xxx

Oh that's lovely OP

For any other women reading, after a very easy first baby, I had three MCs before they saw me and told me to take progesterone pessaries.

After the 4th a consultant said I might have sub clinical (too low to otherwise be detected) hypothyroidism and proscribed levothyroxine.

Within three months I was pregnant and had my second baby.

Good luck everyone trying
It's so hard and demoralising but it can work out sometimes
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Separately - yes, endometriTIS is now also considered as a potential culprit. Few years ago Natural Killer cells were also considered, but that's all outside the NHS.