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Study finds reassuring news for women who’ve had multiple miscarriages

Danish research notes a high birth rate, eventually, among women who've lost at least three pregnancies.
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Jul 19, 2011
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More reassuring news came out of the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology a couple of weeks ago in Stockholm: Researchers there presented the results of a long-term trial that found that among women who’d had at least three miscarriages, approximately two-thirds went on to deliver at least one baby – if they’d sought help from a specialist. 

The study looked at records of nearly 1,000 Danish women ranging in age from 20 to 46 who’d sought help for recurrent miscarriage at a clinic between 1986 and 2008. “We found that, of all the women included in the study, 66.7% had achieved a subsequent live birth within five years after their first consultation in our clinic, and that this increased to 71.1% within 15 years after the first consultation,” study leader Professor Ole Christiansen told a press conference in Stockholm. The study didn’t look, though, at how useful different treatments the clinic provided were in helping women conceive, carry a pregnancy, and deliver.

These findings could be useful in helping women and couples more accurately determine how long it might take them to become pregnant and carry a healthy pregnancy to term. Losing multiple pregnancies is, of course, devastating, taking a huge emotional toll on a woman and on a couple, so the researchers hope this information will enable couples and their medical advisors to better navigate what can be a long road to parenthood.

Have you experienced miscarriage? Were your doctors able to pinpoint any cause? How did you cope?

 

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Comments (3)

I had three miscarriages followed by an ectopic. The ectopic was by for the worst. The grief was shocking. The doctor's at the hospital had warned me an ectopic is nearly or as bad as a full term stillborn. I didn't believe them, but after the last 6 month of grieving I do. I still know (without counting) I would be 36 weeks this week.

My diagnosis at an IVF clinic was premature ovarian failure. At 28 I can no longer have children, I no longer have any eggs left. That was another devestating blow.

I don't know how I coped. The only thing I can say is that I focused and still am trying to focus on just living my life today with no regrets. And hope one day the pain subsides.

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After TTC for over 2 years we had an early miscarriage from a natural conception. Then as part of IVF, the following year we had a 2nd early miscarriage where frustratingly no useful information came back from a D&C. My husband and I insisted in getting a full panel of blood tests, thyroid screenings, and chromosomal testing specifically for multiple miscarriage even though traditional doctors wait until the 3rd miscarriage. The result was I was deficient in Protein S which is genetic and can cause blood clotting (similar to deep vein thrombosis) which in a sense can be a cause of miscarriage. The treatment, if I were to become pregnant again, is to be put on expensive blood thinner shots (daily from conception until a few weeks after delivery). It seems like a simple quick fix, an actual answer, which is better than the usual reply for unknown fertility which is "just try again" or simply eat nutriously drink a lot of water and avoid stress or the lesser known or believed natural cures regarding a woman's malpositioned uterus. We hope it is the answer to a challenge along a journey that my husband and I have not fully recovered from, but that we still have a hope for overcoming together.

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