43 years old. 2 miscarriages. Any hope?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't give up hope yet. I had a child at 37 and then three miscarriages at 39, 40 and 41 (8 weeks, 9 weeks and 12 weeks). We did a number of IUIs and I am now 12.5 weeks and just had a good nuchal translucency screen, so we are hopeful that we finally got a good egg. It probably is worth considering IVF with PGD (or CGH, whichever is more sophisticated), but I would encourage you to not give up.

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How old are you now? Congratulations. GL,

[Anonymous]

I am 16:46. I am 41 1/2 and will be 42 when baby is born (thinking positive!)

[Anonymous]

My wife and I (both over 40) went unsuccessfully through 3 fresh cycles with our eggs/embryos. After that we switched to donor egg cycle and we are expecting right now (5 months pregnant, my wife currently 43 yrs old). There is always hope, however in retrospect, both my wife and I, if we would do all over again we would start with donor egg cycle right away. It’s just too stressful, too costly with minimum odds while time is just passing. Actually, donor cycle was our last try and luckily it was successful.

[Anonymous]

I am 40, have a DC (at 37) and had two m/c since then. One was at 8 weeks, the other was only 5 weeks. Can't afford IVF, we are going to keep trying at least for a few more months. Will have to evaluate my mental fitness after that!
GL to you!

[Anonymous]

For anyone experiencing recurrent pregnancy loss, definitely get checked out for reproductive immunology issues by a reputable Reproductive Immunologist asap before you try any further intervention. I, and many other women, have wasted years before discovering that the underlying issues were all related to an overactive immune system killing off the fetus. My OB and RE said it was just chromosomal (when all my test came back normal) and to do IVF or try again. If you have immune issues you will continue to have losses even with IVF but there are a lot of interventions and treatments depending on the kind and severity of the immune issues going. I'm not saying this is definitely happening in your case but before you spend more time and $ elsewhere I would suggest looking into it. A list of indicators for immune testing can be found here: http://repro-med.net/repro-med-site2

Most REs and OBs are either completely ignorant of immune issues or have summarily dismissed them without actually doing any research or looking at the evidence themselves. So if you do move forward with testing, make sure it is with a reputable RI like one of the following:

Dr. Stricker
Alan Beers Institute
http://www.repro-med.net/repro-med-site2/

Dr. Braverman
http://www.reproductiveimmunology.com/about/

I have been working with both doctors in coordination with Dr. Abassi at Columbia Fertility. They can do phone consults and prescribe a protocol that Dr. Abassi can help monitor. You can also read a ton of inspirational stories from women who were in your same boat and are now holding their babes on the Yahoo group Reproductive Immunology Support. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/immunologysupport/

[Anonymous]

If you can handle it and have the money they keep trying with your own but as you know you're at the upper end of your biological clock. I had a child via donor egg at 43. From the age of 38 on, I had no problem getting pregnant but lost 3 to miscarriage, had a healthy baby at 40, and then tried IUI 4x and IVF once with my own. When I only had 2 viable during my IVF I realized that my time was up. Because we were paying fully out of pocket, I opted for donor egg and got pregnant the first time and had a healthy baby.