Two miscarriages in a row and then a successful pregnancy

[Anonymous]

Oh great news that your pregnancy is going well this time! I was looking on this thread as a friend of mine has been suffering recurring miscarriages and wanted to give her some positive news. Curious-do you think you did anything different this time-i.e. diet, acupuncture or treatment that you feel tipped your odds?

[Anonymous]

My sister had two miscarriages, a baby, two more miscarriages, another baby, another miscarriage, and another baby. She never saw a fertility specialist, as she started the whole process around age 30.

FWIW, our mother was born to parents who were 45 years old (her mother) and 73 (her father).

[Anonymous]

I had two miscarriages due to uterine abnormalities (although one was early and could have been chromosomal) and went on to have an uneventful pregnancy. I recently had a third miscarriage - some times life just isn't fair.

[Anonymous]

I had a chemical pregnancy last August, then another 5 months later in January, then a healthy pregnancy conceived in March (haven't delivered yet but in 3rd trimester & test results show a healthy girl).

I know a chemical pg is not the same as a clinical miscarriage, but they're still losses after fertilization has occurred. Since they were so early, there's really no testing - we just assumed they were both chromosomally abnormal embies, due to my " old eggs."

[Anonymous]

Another person here who had 2 miscarriages (and lost a twin with the first full-term pregnancy) and had 2 children after that and a long battle with endo/IF.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had two miscarriages due to uterine abnormalities (although one was early and could have been chromosomal) and went on to have an uneventful pregnancy. I recently had a third miscarriage - some times life just isn't fair.

I had two early miscarriages, a sucessful pregnancy, and another early miscarriage. Now I am 21 weeks preganant and hopefully on my way to sucessful pregnancy. Hang in there, it is certainly a journey.

[Anonymous]

I've had 3 miscarriages mixed in with 2 normal full term pregnancies. While I'm sure it's unlikely that you have anything chromosomally abnormal - if you haven't already - please make sure your RE is doing a Karotype test of both you AND your husband. It's a simple blood test that will map at your chormosomes and put out any possible issues.

Unfortunately my husband is a carrier for Robertsonian Balanced Translocation 13/14. This chromosome issue causes no other problems than creating fertility problems - primarily miscarriages and a higher chance of a baby with chromosome abnormalities (in our case we had a 50% chance of having a Trisomy 13 or 14 baby). We had absolutely no clue - no family history of miscarriages - we were both 30. Who knew? Thankfully Shady Grove does this test as part of it's baseline testing. Many practicies do not and I know many women that find out they or their husbands have a translocation after doing multiple rounds of IVF, etc. and then finally figuring out the translocation is the cause of their miscarriages.

Again - unlikely that you or your husband has one - but if you haven't been tested for this - please do. And we did go on to have 3 healthy children - so you can still conceive even with this issue!

[Anonymous]

I haven't had a successful pregnancy yet, I know we will. But I wanted to second what the previous poster said. After two miscarriages and several months seeing an RE, we were finally karyotyped and discovered my husband has a chromosome inversion as well...which, like previous poster, comes with a higher chance of MC and a child being born with a chromosome abnormality as well.

If anything it felt good to find a "reason" for our loss...we've been given the green light to try on our own, without further infertility intervention.