Why do i keep having miscarriages?!
Question: i had an abortion about 5 years ago. i miscarried once last year and again this year. is it going to keep happening. im starting to get worried i wont be able to have children. the first one i was about 4 monthes and litterly was bleeding buckets. and i had to go in for a DNC the second one my body passed on its own. im scared to go back to the doctor. help!
Answers: i had an abortion about 5 years ago. i miscarried once last year and again this year. is it going to keep happening. im starting to get worried i wont be able to have children. the first one i was about 4 monthes and litterly was bleeding buckets. and i had to go in for a DNC the second one my body passed on its own. im scared to go back to the doctor. help!
you poor sweet dear girl. my heart goes out to you, but i doubt you will get a good or complete answer here. i do know that if your blood is rh negative, and you have rh positive babies your body rejects them, and the only way to stop that is a transfusinon for the baby, i think. but i understand they also have shots that may help now. have you discussed this with your doctor, when youre not pregnant? to see if you can learn more? perhapse the dcotor will be of more assistance in helping you understand ahead of time, whats happening. if you cannot get answers from your doctor, i suggest changing to a doctor you can talk to and get an understanding of whats happening from. you can also do research on medical websites, and in medical books in the lybrary. my guess would be that you need medical assistance to make things work. and any doctor worth his salt should be able to help you find answers. one problem young people often have with doctors and everyone they percieve to be in authority, to be godlike and fear asking pertinent questions or simply tend to assume the unasked questions shes holding inside are obvious to anyone seeing her go through such pain. but only a very perceptive caring person, doctor or not, will actually be able to guess what your thinking, and give you any useful advice. you have to find someone you trust who is knowledgable in prenatal medicine. one of my daughters has gone though similar problems and i know how terribly difficult and painful it is for you. but someone caring and not actually knowing you or the exact circumstances and not trained as a baby doctor, would be very likely to give you advice thats speciaffically good for an individual they have known and maybe not speciffically correct for you. I wish you better luck in the future honey, but please seek good advice form a competant medical doctor. there are often ways to make what you seek work, but not always. what youre going through is very sad and tough on you, and you need a trusted allie with medicial training. i sincerely hope you find a solution. and if you do it may work sometimes and not others. sadly for a girl who has such problems each time you get pregnant will always be another difficult adventure of trying to make everything come out right, for you and your baby, unless you turn out to have a medical problem thats cureable. my daughter has had several miscarraiges and it was terribly heart wrenching for me to watch her go through it and to participate in the process, and see uncaring cold hearted doctors talk about how much it costs to save a premature baby, as if that should be a consideration in human life. i can only imagine how difficult it must be for her and for you. i had some serious arguments with her doctors and wanted to make them do thier jobs, but sadly as a layman, whos not rich, like the doctors are, in the end i had little effect on what they did. i do wish you good luck.
it could have something to do with your blood type
Ask your doctor to test your progestrone levels during the first trimester. Progestrone is key to maintaining the preganancy.
Women who are unmarried or not living with a partner have a significantly higher risk of miscarriage, according to a new study. And undergoing a divorce or separation during pregnancy raises the risk still further, a new study has found.
Stress may be to blame, the researchers say. Women who experienced more than two stressful or traumatic events during pregnancy had treble the risk of miscarriage than their "stress free" counterparts.
Previous studies have also linked stress to miscarriage (see Stressed mothers may risk early miscarriage). Stress might cause miscarriage by disrupting the hormonal pathways that influence the inner lining of the womb, experts say.
The new study featured nearly 7000 women, 600 of whom miscarried during the first trimester. Women living separately from their partner, or who had no partner, were 73% more likely to miscarry. And women pregnant by a man different from the father of their previous children had a 66% higher risk of miscarriage than those carrying a second baby from their same partner.
Women who switch partners might have a higher rate of miscarriage because they have had unstable relationships and, as a result, experienced stress, suggests Pablo Nepomnaschy of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
are you possibly engaged in some unhealthy habits that cause these miscarriages? or maybe its bad karma from the abortion. regardless, if your afraid to return to the doctor, i'd quit trying to make babies...
If you use a doctor you maybe taking a medication for a long period of time. Tell us what meds you take.
If you had 2 miscarriages, then you should go see your doctor to see if you and your partner need a genetic workup.
Often miscarriages are signs that something is wrong with the eggs/sperm, or it could be a medicine you are taking, or it could be something to do with your cervix (some women have something called an incompetent cervix, the treatment for that is to sew it shut after you are pregnant [a doctor does this NOT you] and cut the strings before you give birth)
If you had a legal abortion, then it should have no effect on your fertility (it should not cause you to have miscarriages).
don't be afraid of the doctor. The doctor is here to help you.
The cause of a miscarriage cannot always be determined. The most common known causes of miscarriage happen in the first third of pregnancy (1st trimester) are
1.chromosomal abnormalities,
2.collagen vascular disease (such as lupus),
3. diabetes,
4.other hormonal problems infection, and
5.congenital (present at birth) abnormalities of the uterus.(such as incompetent cervix)
Chromosomal abnormalities of the fetus are the most common cause of early miscarriages.
There is no other way for you to know your case but to check an obgyne, she can help you with your problem and can answer your question.
Sometimes the body does not make enough progesterone at about 14 weeks to maintain the pregnancy. The ovary must make it until the placenta is big enough to take over, this is about 14 weeks. I had to use progesterone suppositories until I Weeks 16 weeks. Also some women have blood that is a little thick and shortly after the baby develops the red blood cells just can't get through those blood vessels. I know someone that had to take a baby aspirin daily from the time she found out she was pregnant. A blood test will confirm this. You may also need a Doctor that you are more comfortable with.
Quit smoking, that is poison in your blood stream. Are you over weight? Women with more than 20lbs. of extra weight, or more, have less of a chance of conceiving. Did you tell the doctor you had an abortion? There could be scar tissue that is preventing a full term pregnancy. Also, why are you trying to get pregnant if you aren't married yet?
I'm sorry to hear about your two miscarriages. Unfortunately, despite their devastating effect on you, having 2 miscarriages is not that unusual and doesn't necessarily mean you have a problem that caused them both, especially since they seem to have happened at different times. That said, there are a few things you can do:
1) Stop smoking--that's the most obvious possible problem.
2) check your progesterone--low progesterone is a really common cause of miscarriage.
Maybe you have PCOS. Check on Google what does this stand for.