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[quote=Anonymous]Sending you hugs and good wishes, OP. I hope this pregnancy turns out to be a healthy full-term one in spite of the spotting - as PP said, that can absolutely happen.

My own infertility journey was different than yours but I have a close friend from college who experienced something very similar. Two healthy pregnancies and births and then in her mid-30s she had a series of four miscarriages, all between 15-19 weeks. It was awful and the doctors were useless and never did figure out why it was happening. She stuck with it and did successfully have her third baby after four years of trying. I know she used Clomid at some point but don't believe she did anything else since, as you say, she felt she was having no trouble getting pregnant.

It's a really tough thing to decide and I sympathize. We're considering trying for a second right now and I am really on the fence after all we went through to get the first which involved several IVF cycles. I don't at ALL think you should feel bad for considering it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having your dream family size in mind and it's not a zero-sum game or anything (I don't have patience with all those who bore on about how people "should feel lucky" to have one, they need to just shut up already). But it's definitely fair and reasonable to consider the potential financial and emotional impact on you and your family. Another child would of course be priceless...but playing blind and not knowing if that will ever come about makes it such a hard calculation. However, if what's happening in your case is that your miscarriages are being caused by chromosomal abnormalities that *is* something that could possibly be worked around via IVF, so if this pregnancy isn't successful (though I hope it is) you might consider testing the embryo for that as a potential cause. That could at least give you some more information to work with. [/quote]

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