[LWiegel]

I just had my second m/c..any suggestions to help those of you who are successfully pg now? Any little bit will be much appreciated. This time is so hard I and I'm sure others would love helpful suggestions and positive experiences!

[Nia1978]

Hi...I'm sorry for your loss. You should also check out the forum "pregnancy after loss". I'm sure there are many women there that can give you some positive experiences

[LindseyE117]

My husband and I were told that we would never be able to get pregnant naturally on our own. He had lowish sperm counts and I have a weak ovulation. He was taking fertility blend for men and his motility bumped up to 95%. I tried soy for the 1st time ever last month and ended up pregnant on the first try. Hopefully it sticks. This is even after a huge failed IVF cycle in June. I never thought I would see a BFP again. As it stands, I am taking progesterone, a prenatal, and a low dose baby aspirin just in case.

[mbsn]

I had three losses before I got pregnant with my daughter. My pregnancy with her was easy, peasy. She was such a sticky bean, she stayed in there almost two extra weeks. She's now an amazing 2 year old.

My mom had an average of three losses for every child born. Something that gave her comfort was the thought, "God just wasn't satisfied with His work yet."

Don't give up hope. You'll get your rainbow baby.

[missy123]

I am so sorry for your losses

My husband and I TTCAL for 2.5 years with 4 losses - 2 chemicals, 1 slow Heartbeat that passed away and 1 cervical ectopic. I am 42 years old and we went to a fertility clinic. Had 2 failed clomid cycles and a failed IUI. Due to my age and ovarian reserve we were told we would not be able to have a baby without donor eggs.

It was a heartbreaking, earth shattering journey but we are expecting our miracle daughter next month.

(((hugs))) pregnancy loss is so hard. This board is great and full of girls that will always understand what you are going through. I wish I could take away your pain.

[.:Shortcake:.]

((HUGS)) No positive story here yet but I wanted to say welcome to the board and I am so very sorry for your loss.

[pepper73]

I don't have a success story yet either but wanted to say I am so sorry for your losses. This is a wonderful board and there is tons of support here!

[*SamF*]

Biggest advice is don't give up!

I have 8 angel babies. The emotional toll not to mention the physical pain was tough, but I kept thinking about the goal. I've been through thousands of dollars of MA, countless opks, hpts, and boxes of tissues. You just have to keep reminding yourself that it all really is worth it.

[LWiegel]

Originally Posted by LindseyE117

My husband and I were told that we would never be able to get pregnant naturally on our own. He had lowish sperm counts and I have a weak ovulation. He was taking fertility blend for men and his motility bumped up to 95%. I tried soy for the 1st time ever last month and ended up pregnant on the first try. Hopefully it sticks. This is even after a huge failed IVF cycle in June. I never thought I would see a BFP again. As it stands, I am taking progesterone, a prenatal, and a low dose baby aspirin just in case.

That is a beautiful story I'm so excited for you!! I'm going to look into that too and see if that would help us!

[LWiegel]

Originally Posted by mbsn

I had three losses before I got pregnant with my daughter. My pregnancy with her was easy, peasy. She was such a sticky bean, she stayed in there almost two extra weeks. She's now an amazing 2 year old.

My mom had an average of three losses for every child born. Something that gave her comfort was the thought, "God just wasn't satisfied with His work yet."

Don't give up hope. You'll get your rainbow baby.

That's what my friend told me about her mother too. She said her mother had 10 m/c and she has 4 children! So I'm hoping my next will be sticky! The saying your mom had is so beautiful and I will now too take that with me.


Thank you everyone for all your support!!! It's nice to have ladies to talk to and understand each other. I am glad this website is here so we can all support each other and grow together!! Best of luck to everyone and I hope the sharing continues!!

[L-SBB]

I had my daughter shortly after I turned 37 after my 1st loss...ditto Sam, don't give up hope, never give up hope!

I have seen so MANY women on JM who suffered multiple m/cs...hit their lowest moments of believing they would never have a successful pregnancy...and are now enjoying their beautiful babies. It's an incredibly difficult road to walk in TTCAL, but I have seen too many success stories here to not have hope for EVERY SINGLE WOMAN in here (including myself )...even if you don't believe, I believe for you!!

[ashj_1218]

Hi mama. I agree with the other ladies...stay positive and keep trying whatever you can to get that rainbow baby. I am sorry for your losses and hope you get your rainbow very soon!

We had a gorgeous little boy whose pregnancy was easy and unexpected. When we tried for number two, when our first was just a baby still...we had four losses right in a row. I was heartbroken and thought that I would never have another baby. I was terrified because it was obviously not a problem with ovulation or conception and I thought that even fertility treatments couldn't help me if it was a uterine problem or that my body couldn't hold onto the babies. We went and had tons of testing to find out my left tube is blocked (the doc thinks it is either not entirely blocked OR my right side has completely taken over, since two of the losses were consecutive). AND I have a blood clotting disorder. One that my rhuematologist was shocked we did not catch before. He said my first son is a miracle, since the clots should have clotted off his placenta just like it did to the four following babies.

One month after the blood results, we got a BFP, went on Lovenox (an anticoagulant), baby aspirin, progresterone, and a prenatal. We watched our cute little rainbow grow week after week on sonograms (holding our breath, thinking something would happen). And I gave birth on September 16th, to a perfect little boy, with no complications

Keep asking questions, push your docs to look into something that concerns you. And never stop trying. Our path was not nearly as long as some people's, I did get discouraged though and thought it was never going to happen again for us. But with some simple tests, we found the problem and treated it. For some, it might not be as easy as an injection and a pill daily. But there are still options out there and until you have tried them all, there is still hope.

[junie22]

Originally Posted by mbsn

My mom had an average of three losses for every child born. Something that gave her comfort was the thought, "God just wasn't satisfied with His work yet."

This just gave me goosebumps from head to toe. Beautiful.

[Toots216]

I had two back-to-back losses last year, one in late September and another in early December (first cycle trying after the loss). We were devastated and went through a boatload of RPL tested which showed NOTHING. Because of my age, my RE recommended clomid, so we did three cycles of clomid + IUI, all of which failed. We were then recommended to move onto IVF in May, so we took a month off from the craziness, and lo and behold, we got our BFP all by ourselves. Tomorrow I will be 22 weeks pg with our little rainbow baby boy.

I won't lie, my pregnancy has been anxiety-ridden because of my history, but in 3 weeks I will be at "viability" and will feel like I can relax a little. Don't EVER give up hope!!!

[doremi]

My first pregnancy happened on the 3rd cycle of TTC, and I had a perfect pregnancy, and have a beautiful little boy to show for it. When he turned 2, we started TTC our second. I fully expected it to be easy. And it hasn't been. It took 8 months to get pregnant with our second, and I miscarried at 5wks. Three cycles later, I was pregnant again, and miscarried a second time the beginning of September, again at 5 weeks. I am now on progesterone supplements, and we are TTC. I go in for a vaginal u/s on Tuesday to rule out any physical abnormalities. So, I haven't reached my happy ending yet. But, I agree with the others... don't stop fighting. Losses are so hard, but the risk of heartache is worth it for the payoff of holding that sweet baby in your arms.

[Sierra.Sparling]

I am so sorry for your loss sweetie. I had my first pregnancy in 08 perfect pregancy except the last two weeks bed rest. Then after we had her and she was about a year we started trying no luck for months and months then we got pg in april of last year. unfortunately we mc. THat was my first loss, that was hard. However we tried on and off no sucess. We started to activly try in sept of this year. I thought I would do some research to see if we could boost our chances. I saw info on soy isoflavones and i took it cd5-9 and we got our BFP. We are now 4 weeks pg. we arent in the safe zone yet. so i am hoping this bean sticks! You can get pg again! sending you lots of hugs! Hope this helps!

[luvmykids623]

I am so sorry for your losses! I agree, don't give up. I can't tell you how many times I thought about it, and I'm so glad that with the help of these ladies and my desire to have another child, I kept going. DH and I started ttc take home baby #3 in July 2010. We got pregnant quickly, but I suffered my third loss when the baby's heart stopped beating at 9 weeks. I had to have a D&C in September 2010 at 11 weeks. After that we were unable to conceive, which was new to us. I got pregnant 5 times on the first try. My problem was staying pregnant not getting pregnant. It was really hard to find myself having issues with both. In February 2011 I had to change OBs, because mine did not want to acknowledge that there were issues. My new OB did recurrent loss panels and found that I have a single mutation for MTHFR. She also sent us to an RE. The RE felt I've always had an ovulation problem that was probably the reason for our 3 losses and our trouble conceiving after the D&C. We did 2 rounds of Clomid that did nothing, because it thinned my lining so badly. In July 2011 we did injectables (Follistim) and IUI and conceived twins. There are days that I seriously can't believe that I am where I am today. It was a long hard road but if I hadn't stuck with it I wouldn't be 17 weeks pregnant with my double blessing. I'm still stressed that something will happen, but I'm trying to focus on the positive. Please, don't give up.