Hello all. Do you mind if I join you. Glad to see you in here Miami. I will go and look back in a bit and see which other names I recognise. Please feel free to fill me in anyone else.
I haven't been around on the TTC after miscarriage boards for a long time as life just got a bit too hard for a while to talk about it, but I am cautiously poking my head around the door here now.
My stats
Name: Brenna24
Age: 39
TTC: #1, MMC at 11+3 (baby died at 8) Oct 17th 2015, 2x MC at 5 weeks Dec 24th 2015 and April 24th 2016.
TTC: for 25 months
I had the standard tests for autoimmune, blood clotting, anti-cardiolipin etc at the recurrent miscarriage clinic last June. All came back fine. No Karyotying of either myself of DH as they don't do that. Advised to save products of next miscarriage and bring those in for karyotying (helpful!).
Stuggled to conceive again although regular severe miscarriage like pains at roughly 10 dpo some months were making me think that I was conceiving, just rejecting them during implantation.
Last November DDog died and I got told I was being made redundant in the same week. I decided to take matters into my own hands and in February I spent my redundancy payment on going to Prof Quenby's clinic in coventry and another clinic, Life Fertility Care in Leamington Spa, and get testing done to find out what was going on.
The result of which is that high levels of NK cells were found in my uterus and I was told I would need to take prednisolone if I got pregnant again to try and prevent rejection. The other clinic I was a little more sceptical of - the focus on natural fertility and birth control and hormone problems in women and were maybe a little airy fairy for my scientists mind. However they said they could see signs that although my hormone levels were okish (on the lower end of the scale but still above minimum) they didn't feel like that was enough for me. I had two round of progesterone from ovulation to period 1which didn't help then this month I injected HCG at days 3, 5 and 7 post ovulation to try and up both my progesterone and 17-oestradiol. The result of which is that I am not 6+3 weeks pregnant. It has taken me 12 days to accept this to the point where I feel like joining in here and declaring myself tentatively pregnant. I am far from out of the woods yet and had a bit of cramping last week that scared me but the clinic have measured my progesterone levels and are happy with them and I am sick and sore boobed up to the nines. Still very cautious as I had a good heartbeat and growth with my first pregnancy at 6+6 and 7+6 (scanned because of bleeding) and the baby died a day or two after the last scan at 8 or 8+1, so I have a long way to go yet. But today I am pregnant and resting hard. I have had 12 days of steroids and extra progesterone and have had no bleeding to date.