Pregnancy after late miscarriage

[Shelllou17]

Hi, first post on mumsnet!
I had a late miscarriage (16 weeks) in April (following an early miscarriage prior to this). I have just found out I am pregnant again. Panicking. I hadn't heard back from my babies post mortem - I almost didn't want to know so hadn't chased the hospital. However, since finding out I'm pregnant again I chased up the hospital and they've sent an appointment - 3 weeks away!!! Can you access the results prior to the appointment? Also shoukdi receive extra midwife EPU care - more reassurance scans etc? Anyone had a similar experience? I feel like the post mortem results might effect this pregnancy... maybe I'm just stressing after everything I went through... thanks for any advice 🙏

I had a loss at 20 weeks with my little boy, we chose not to have a post mortem as we wasn’t planning on having anymore children, here I am 28 weeks pregnant with a baby girl. Nothing was different in my early care but I am on aspirin to help the blood flow to the placenta and now on blood thinning injections as well. I have extra scans at 28, 32, 36& 39 weeks, not sure if that is the reason why I’m having them though xx

I have lost 2 daughters to anencephaly, my first daughters post mortem results I had an appointment at the hospital to discuss. My second daughters post mortem I called them and requested them over the phone as I suffer from PTSD and severe depression due to my losses. Maybe give them a call and explain your situation and ask if you can have a call instead?

Sorry for your loss ❤️❤️

I'm really sorry for your loss 💐

I had a loss at 23 weeks previously and am currently 21 weeks pregnant. I've been given regular, extra scans and my care is consultant led. However, this didn't really start until post 12 weeks - before 12 weeks I was given one reassurance scan at 8 weeks at EPU but that's it.

However you should definitely push to get your postmortem results sooner - like you say, there could be something in there that could mean you need different care in some way. The results will be ready by now, from my experience it's just that the consultants don't have many appointment slots for them. I would call your antenatal unit and explain and get a consultant to look at it earlier just to double check that you don't need to take anything into account in your early care. You don't necessarily need the full appointment as such, but you need them to look at it asap to make sure you shouldn't doing something from the get go (like taking baby aspirin for example).

I had a late miscarriage at 17 weeks and the post mortem didn’t give any reason for why it happened and the chances of a future loss was no greater than someone who hadn’t gone though it. The consultant at the time said I would be entitled to an early scan but once I found out I was pregnant I chose not to have one - personally for me it’s only reassuring in the moment. I have a thyroid condition and now low papp a so I am under a consultant and am having regular growth scans. Without these added complications I’m not sure I’d be treated any differently xxx