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Pregnant after a Loss
Successful Pregnancy Soon After a 2nd or 3rd Trimester Loss?
Hello, I hope to join the "Pregnant After A Loss" Board very soon if we can have some success. I just moved from the 2nd Trimester board (baby was due in December prior to his passing) to unfortunately, the Pregnancy Loss Board for now.
My husband and I lost our first baby, a baby boy at 19.4 weeks to a severe form of skeletal dysplasia with lethal markers (we don't know if it was a spontaneous occurrence or if my husband and I are healthy carriers of a recessive gene that caused this.....we are awaiting the pathological findings).
Does anyone have success stories of a healthy pregnancy after a later term (2nd or 3rd trimester) loss? Were you advised by your dr. to wait a long time to get pregnant again? In our baby's case, he had a chromosomal problem so I am wondering when it would be safe to start trying with the next pregnancy. I had my D&E at 19.4 weeks and it went without any complications. We don't see our dr. for another month.
Sorry for all the questions but this has been our first baby/first loss and we are devastated yet trying to keep the faith that we can have a healthy baby. I would love to hear about others experiences of success after a late term loss.
Thank you!
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Re: Successful Pregnancy Soon After a 2nd or 3rd Trimester Loss?
BFP #1: 07/10/2009, Missed m/c, D&C 08/12/2009
BFP #2: 01/31/2010, Identical Twins died in utero due to TTTS, D&E 05/19/2010
BFP #3: 09/16/2010, natural m/c 9/21/2010
PCOS & Bocornuate Uterus Dx 1.4.2011
BFP #4: 01/11/2011
I lost my twins after a IC /infection at 23weeks. We were given the greenlight to start again, we did 1 round of Fertility drugs and it failed, took a break and tried on our own. At 8 months past our loss the last fertility treatment worked. I am sorry for your loss and hope you can join us soon.
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Thank you. I'm very sorry for your loss as well! It has only been a few weeks since my D&E. We are for sure not emotionally ready to start for probably another month. But physically I hope this will be possible by then. I just have a lot of anxiety about our next pregnancy!
I don't have any experience with this, but I wanted to say I am so sorry for your loss. Deciding to when to try again is such a personal and difficult decision. Make sure you are really ready because being PGAL is nerve-wracking and difficult as well.
((Big HUGE HUGS)) Wishing you the best of luck.
BFP#1 - 9/2/10, EDD 5/14/11, Twins Hannah and Liam lost 11/7/10 @ 13w1d.
BFP #2 - 2/9/11, EDD 10/13/11, LO lost 2/13/11 @ 5w4d
BFP #3 - 5/9/11, DS born 1/13/12
~*~My BFP Chart~*~Our Story~*~
~*~Labor Buddies with Sweet Turnip - Welcome Baby Girl 2/23/12 & Aluenna - Welcome Ivy 1/6/12~*~
I am so sorry for your loss. One of my identical twins was stillborn at 35 weeks. We didn't get a clear cut reason as to what happened. They did find that his cord was attached on the side as opposed to the center, but can't be certain if that is the reason.
I wasn't given any instructions to wait any amount of time. I also wasn't considered high risk because of it. My OB felt that it was a "fluke" (for lack of better term) and wouldn't be something that would occur again. With my second pregnancy they definetely watched me more in the later weeks. After the loss of my son, I went on to have a healthy daughter 19 months later.
Best of luck with everything and again so sorry for your loss.
So sorry for your loss as well! I really hope I can join this board soon too. It's very heartbreaking to get so far into a pregnancy and loose a baby to something that is so rare!
All of this! Big Hug to you, and please feel free to ask any questions, we will be here for you always!!!
Married October 16th, 2010
TTC #1 since October 2010
1st BFP 1-12-11
MC'd 1-22-11
2nd BFP 2-15-11
Our Wee One....**KENNEDY JO** born 10/3/11@ 36weeks via Csection
My BFP Chart
Labor Buddy to **MRS.ATCH** Welcome Quinn 11-5-11**
I am so sorry to hear that! Is Turners a chromosomal problem as well? In our situation, it was a chromosomal problem (not known if spontaneous or recessive yet though). We have our dr's appt. in another month so we are anxious to hear what he recommends to us about trying again. Best of luck to you with your current pregnancy! You must be very excited!
Thank you!! It certainly is a difficult decision! I know our next pregnancy will be filled with a lot of anxiety (wondering if the same thing will go wrong) but I just have to think positive and read boards like this!
I am so sorry for your loss as well. It is so good to hear that you went on to have a healthy baby girl 19 months later! That gives me hope.
Thank you for your support! We are still in the grieving stages since it is still early on (we shave our good days and our bad days) but love hearing that others have had success. And I have to start reading and listening to more peoples advice and stories from this board!
I am so sorry for your loss as well. We are praying our chromosomal abnormality was sporadic as well. We won't know for sure until the pathological results come in. Congratulations on your BFP!
My son was full-term when he was born. He had a really rare genetic condition that no one could know about. He passed away a few weeks later. We wanted to get tested before TTC to see if we were carriers of the gene. When we got the results back, we started to try again. Six months after his birth, we were pregnant again. FYI, I had a c-section and I'm going to have another one in a few months.
We knew that we still wanted to be parents again, so it was the right thing to do for us. But, we're all different, you just have to listen to what is right for you.
I wish you the best.
I am so sorry for your loss!
We lost our DS#2 at 22 weeks due to a cord accident in January. We were told to wait 3 -6 months. In April, DH and I just looked at each other and decided that we wanted to try again, despite all of our fears and concerns. I am now 5 1/2 weeks pregnant.
I am crazy nervous but feel like this is going to be okay. I have hypothyroidism and low progesterone so I am on suppositories.
Good luck to you!
I am so sorry for your loss. I have never actually miscarried so I can't give personal advice. My mother had two late losses, then had my sister and then one more late loss. Hers were due to antiphospholipid disease. I hope you get answers and are able to have a take home baby soon.
First off I'm very sorry for your loss. We lost our daughter at 22 wks due to preterm labor/ IC. We were eager to try again soon. Doctors told us 3 months or 3 cycles. It took awhile for that 1st cycle but after that the 2nd was normal and we were pregnant on the 3rd. This pregnancy has been completely different from the last one. I always found success stories encouraging in those early months and weeks. My heart goes out to you and your family. I hope to see you on this board soon. Big ((hugs))
bfp#2 2/14/11? cerclage placed at 13 weeks
?DS 9/29/11 36 wks 3 days 8lb 20 1/4" ?
bfp#3 12/15/12 CP 12/27/12
bfp#4 2/25/13
beta#1 51 beta#2 163 beta#3 1,370
I am so sorry for your loss. We looked into testing for genes causing our baby's condition as well but were told by our genetics counselor that for my husband and I to be tested for the genes causing skeletal dysplasia, they would have to test for all the different forms of skeletal dysplasia and it would cost "in the hundreds of thousands of dollars" (told insurance does not cover this). I was recently told that there are over 400 different forms of this disease. Our baby had been diagnosed with skeletal dysplasia however the type is not certain. We are really hoping for some answers soon (report comes back in another 4-6 weeks) so we can narrow down the gene an know if it's recessive/inherited or just a spontaneous event. If it's recessive, that would just be heartbreaking (means it could happen again - 25% chance and most forms of this disease aren't found out about until the 18th-24th week.....lethal markers in this disease typically show earlier).
Congratulations on your successful pregnancy!!
So sorry about your loss as well! Your loss was around the same time mine was (I was just shy of 20 weeks). I am so happy you are now pregnant again! That gives me hope!!
Thank you. I am so sorry about your mother and sisters losses. I really hope we get some answers soon too. In 4-6 weeks, I am praying the doctors are able to narrow down the disease so we know what gene caused this. I had never heard of this disease until very recently and there is no pattern of this happening on either side of the family.
I am so sorry for your loss as well. Your loss was around the same time as ours (we made it just shy of 20 weeks). We had a rough 1st pregnancy (lots of vomitting, constant nausea & low blood pressure that had to be monitored) but nothing abnormal that gave us any hints the baby had a bone disease with lethal markers until much later.
Congratulations on your pregnancy! I love hearing success stories like this! I hope to be on this board soon too!
I am so sorry for your loss as well. It is heartbreaking to make it that far along. Your loss was around the time ours occurred. We are looking into IVF along with Preimplantation Genetic Testing (they are done in combination I understand) when we are given the green light if this is a recessive gene. Insurance doesn't cover so far from what I am told. But we have so much anxiety that this might happen again so far into the pregnancy b/c of how this disease usually forms.
Congratulations on your very adorable baby!!