How to reduce miscarriage risk following miscarriages

[LuKiTo]

I've recently had 2 miscarriages. One in March at 6.5 weeks and the second in April at 5 weeks. No period between and got pregnant first time trying both times (we actually didn't try the second time as we wanted to wait for a period in between).

I've been reading up about superfertility and am concerned this could be the issue. If that's the case, all I can do is try to improve my egg quality.

I'm 35 with a bmi of 30. I'm going to work on losing weight, through healthy eating and more exercise, reducing stress levels (cutting a down to a 4 day work week) and will go to the doctor for bloods to check for other potential issues.

Does anyone else have any suggestions to help improve egg quality or how to reduce miscarriage risk? Or has anyone been in a similar boat, how did things workout and what approach did you take?

It may be worth discussing metformin with a gp. Some used to be willing to prescribe for repeat miscarriage especially when PCOS was an issue. However that was 15 years ago so things may have changed.

Good luck - hope you get there soon.

For egg quality take co- enzyme 10

full bed rest would perhaps help your body to
adjust and prepare. But I have no idea though. Best of luck

I am also going through my second miscarriage and wondering like you what we can do to prevent it happening again!! I think co-enzyme 10 is recommended. I am trying to find a multi vitamin that is best but it just seems like they all have ‘some’ of the recommended vitamins and others have certain ones and others miss them, but I don’t want to risk taking both and taking too much! So hard

If I were you I would go for some tests if you can afford it, or ask your GP. There could be so many reasons for your miscarriages. I was like you and could easily get pregnant, but couldn’t keep it. They found various factors, but couldn’t say for sure if they were the cause. It could be genetic, and therefore no amount of vitamins etc will help, it could be a clotting issue, it could be a sperm issue, it could be a uterine issue. There are so many factors and it’s hard to pinpoint it. I’ve taken Coq10 for years for example and not noticed any difference.

I did the obvious like cut out alcohol, caffeine and ate super healthy.
took Folic acid and muli vitamins.

GP wouldn’t do bloods or refer as I’d “only” had 2 mcs at that time.
Not sure if that’s changed now.

Thanks for the ideas everyone. I'm fortunate that my GP will refer me after just 2 miscarriages, much to my surprise. So hopefully we will have some answers soon too, but hopefully in the meantime we are doing everything we can to improve our odds.

Get your own body into shape, wait 3-6 months before trying to conceive and take vitamins from now along with a healthy diet.

But, please remember most early miscarriages aren’t anything which you can prevent as it’s your body rejecting a non viable pregnancy. If you have a 3rd one your gp will run basic tests but apart from a few obvious things, there’s often no obvious cause. Being as fit as you can be from vitamin stores will help though