Positive Stories

Hi Ladies, I am after your sucess stories Particularly from those who had multiple MC's. Also if you did anything to help prevent them would be interested to know what.

Basicly I just want a thread to help with my positive thinking approach, to get me through those down days when it feels like this is never going to happen.

Thank you all in advance

It took us two years to conceive our daughter.

Then we had a miscarriage trying to conceive a second child. 4 months after the miscarriage we were pregnant again and are now 29 weeks pregnant (viable - yay!)

This is after being diagnosed with a luteal phase defect and told we would never conceive and carry a child to term.

Look forward to reading all the positive stories as well - I am off to see the specialist this morning so hoping they can shed some light on my m/c problem. Didi, are you going to see a specialist?

Didi - i took 7 years to have my first daughter due to unexplained infertility, then had two missed mc before concieving my second daughter. I fell pregnant in around 3 months each time with the last three pregnancies so quite quickly.

After my two mc we decided to go privately to Repromed and talk to a dr there who specialises in recurrent loss (she actually works at the recurrent loss clinic at greenlane too), we did all the test and found nothing wrong. The only thing i highlighted was that my LP was usually around 9 days so a bit short. I also asked if i could use progesterone support as i had read a lot about women who had suffered from missed mc had low progesterone. As it doesn't harm a pregnancy to use progesterone pessaries i gave them a go, so used them from ovulation until 16 weeks.

I got pregnant the second cycle using the pessaries, and did the early monitoring program that repromed offer, and they checked my progesterone which was on the low side even though i was on supplements, so i think that was definately my problem. Repromed also went out of there way to give me weekly scans from the 7 week one to 12 weeks... they usually only do one scan.

You can see the outcome of that pregancy in my sig

I hope you have a successful pregnancy soon. Wishing you luck.

Though we have four children we've lost five along the way, the last two were one after the other, most recent was at 13weeks last sept due to (they think) placenta accreta. This time around I was taking 0.8mg folic, extra vit E along with a prenatal, & rubbed Skybright Wild Yam cream (supposed to be a natural progesterone- the only one i could find that didn't have soy) on my belly from ov til 14weeks, I'm not sure if any of that helped, but certainly hasn't done any harm. =)

Hi Guys

I had my appointment with the specialist yesterday, all my bloods came back fine apart from one that tested positive. He explained it was something to do with antibodies in my blood ..... sorry, I didn't ask too many questions because I am already a googling freak and I dont need more problems to research on the internet.....but apparently 'easily fixed' with a higher does of low does aspirin and high does folic acid.   I was in there for 20 min, he basically told me I was fine, get amongst it and give them a call when I am pg and they will moniter me carefully with scans etc. If my blood is not thin enough then they will inject me with something else to help.
Stoked!! I felt like I was walking on air yesterday - finally a plan! Of course, nothing is guaranteed but hey its a start.
Didi / Tinkerbelle - maybe just try taking low does aspirin as well? It may or may not work but it wont do you any harm. You could even talk with your doctor about this? I'm gutted I didn't try this with our last pg.
Anyway, thats where I am at - cant wait for my next cycle to start so we can trying again. Bring on the bundle of joy!!

I fell pregnant almost immediately only to discover missed miscarriage at 13 weeks. Then fell pregnant quickly again (after 2 d&c's) but due to problems we had to terminate that pregnancy. Then there was a horrible 18 months where I just didn't fall pregnant again. I finally got the GP to do a referral to Fertility Associates (or whatever it's called) and found out I was pregnant the day I got the appointment letter. When I finally fell pregnant again I was terrified for about half of the pregnancy, checking for blood at every toilet break, anxious about every weird feeling. Anyway, we have our gorgeous daughter now and I'm over the moon in love with her.

Good luck to you. Hope it happens fast and healthily.

Evening Ladies - I think we all need good news and hope.

My story is got married and we decided to have a baby and no problem 9 months later a beautiful baby boy! about 18months later ok time for a wee brother or sister for our DS. To cut a long story short I had 4 miscarriages in 3 years, 2 resulting in DnC's and 2 natural MC. We desperately wanted a brother or sister for our son and we had booked with Fertility Associates to see if all this heart ache was worth it or were we destined to have one child. The night before our appt I did a test (I was a serial tester ) and it was positive and then the next day same again, cancelled my appt with the FA and held my breath for the next 12 weeks!! i had acupuncture to try to help (dont know if it did) and 9 months later we were blessed with our DD.

Some stories have happy endings and we were so lucky that ours did, Good Luck to all of you. I understand the heart ached and the pain of MC

didi99 there is a place in Mt Eden which speacialises in Womens Health with conception and also MC and all the bits inbetween. It is on Mt Eden Rd. try this link www.naturalfertility-womenshealth.co.nz

good luck

I went to a nauropath there too after my missed mc didi - mostly i wanted help with my periods which had become worse after the d&c.

looking forward to your happy ending - although I know not everyone gets one it is encouraging to read these stories isn't it?!