Looking for success stories after recurrent miscarriage

[Steffi12]

Hello all,

After just having gone through my fifth miscarriage I’m just looking for some success stories after recurrent miscarriage. Also any advice on if you did anything different/ any treatments or medications you took which enabled you to finally bring a baby home ❤️

Just feeling a little in the trenches at the minute. I have been through my local miscarriage clinic and have recently had our first IVF appointment via the NHS which I am very grateful for as I know it’s such a postcode lottery which is awful. So we are starting to get the ball rolling with that but I just feel like there maybe something to do with my uterus like NK cells or something.
We are still trying so I’m just looking for some hope and advice.
All my basic blood testing has come back normal. I did have progesterone for our fourth loss which sadly didn’t help. Our fifth loss was a chemical.

Thank you all, sending love to anyone also in this horrible club 💐

Hi! We are a success story of sorts. Between 2020 and 2023 we had six miscarriages for unknown reasons. Everything came back more or less healthy.

I eventually went to IVF and I won’t lie, it’s hard. Our first transfer was ectopic, the second didn’t take, the third did but split into MCMA twins who sadly passed at 21 weeks which is common with their type. We tried another transfer which led to a miscarriage and then the 5th transfer was our daughter who turns 1 this week.

Interestingly enough, I got pregnant naturally with her sister 4 months after DD was born and had zero issues! She was born a month early 5 days ago. It’s absolutely bizarre.

While it was hard and IVF wasn’t the cure all I’d hoped it would be, we did make it in the end and have two gorgeous girls after years of loss.

Forgot to add that unfortunately nothing special made a difference - baby aspirin, extra folate, progesterone etc. Often it’s down to the DNA. It’s worth getting your partner’s sperm DNA fragmentation tested though as that’s something new they’re looking at for recurrent miscarriage.

I'm so sorry for you 💐

I can't speak about miscarriages personally, but I do have the MTHFR gene mutation, it's somewhat common. It basically means that I can't absorb normal folic acid from a supplement, and something to do with enzymes. I have to take an activated form of folic acid.

When I was doing research into this years ago there were multiple women writing about how they had multiple miscarriages, then they found out about the gene mutation, began taking activated folic acid then had success.

I have no idea if this will help you, but MTHFR friendly activated folic acid supplements are easy to find, not expensive, and I don't think they will do you harm. But of course, please do your own research.