Mandi-Lou

I'm wondering if anyone in here can help me to help a girl I know with some info on recurrent m/c's.

She has had testing done (after her 4th m/c) and they can't find any reason as to why she is having problems keeping a pg. The only thing that came up was that her folate levels were low, so they have upped her dosage. Neither of them carry the MTHFR related gene problems.

The problem is, the pregnancies fail and hang around for weeks before her body realises it and then she has some bleeding, goes for an u/s and finds out that the baby has been dead for weeks.

Does anyone have any advice that I can give her? Are her dr's missing something? I would love to try and help her but have no idea where to start looking or what to search for exactly. The only losses that I have had have been chem pg's (2 now) so haven't had to go through anything like this.

Any help would be so greatly appreciated ladies!

Mandi
xxx

SheriKCMO

i'm just bumping this up, as i don't know enough about this i would just make sure that she's getting her progesterone checked early on and that her thyroid is also good.
best wishes,
sheri

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saluki_fan

Sounds like they might be blighted ovums - that's exactly what happened to me in my first pregnancy (baby probably stopped developing at 6 or 7 weeks, but my body still thought it was PG and I didn't start spotting until 10 weeks - I even started developing a little pooch and everything).

Here are some links you can check out:

http://www.haveababy.com/rpl/aboutrpl.asp?site=stl

http://www.millenova.com/tests/preglosspan.asp

http://www.soft-infertility.com/docs/PIRecurPregLoss.pdf#search='recurrent%20pregnancy% 20loss'

http://www.ivf.com/recurrent.html

http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/miscarriage/rpl.html

http://www.inciid.org/article.php?cat=immunology&id=43

http://www.well-woman.com/loss.htm

That should keep you busy for a while!

Have they done any karyotyping?

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DS 1/06 after 3 m/c's, APS, chorioamnionitis & a cord knot. DD 12/07 after APS & a funky seizure 4 days before birth.

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Mandi-Lou

Thank you both for replying!

I can't remember what sort of testing that they have done so far (all I know is that they took ALOT of blood tests). Will find out next time I speak to her.

Thank you for those links! That will definitely keep me busy for a while

saluki_fan

Mandi-Lou- on Tuesday we got our RPL testing process started and the nurse drew 7 vials of blood from me! I still have a bruise on my arm, and little "nicks" where various needles have been used to draw blood over the past 3 weeks. Ugh.

Next Tuesday I'm having a hysteroscopy done - has your friend had any of that type of procedures done?

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Lean cyster ~ M/c @ 10 wks after seeing heartbeat 8/04, 2 chemical PGs lost @ 4.5 wks 1/05 & 3/05. 4/05: Dx w/antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.

DS 1/06 after 3 m/c's, APS, chorioamnionitis & a cord knot. DD 12/07 after APS & a funky seizure 4 days before birth.

1 dog, 1 angel dog, 1 angel cat (R.I.P. Charlie 11/21/08)