IF= Higher rate of m/c?

Re: IF= Higher rate of m/c?

• katieranck2202

  January 2009

  Considering the normal m/c rate is ~9%.

  There are a couple of factors at play. It depends on your diagnosis (i.e. PCOS ladies have a ~45% of miscarriage w/o meds) and most women who are not dealing with IF don't test until their missed period, so many of them don't know what a missed m/c or a chem pregnancy is.

  Katie, PCOS since May 2005, Fostering since November 2010 Adoption since December 2011
  *PCOS bio* *Cold Hands, Warm Heart*
  

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• epphd member

  January 2009

  My guess would be yes - for reasons that pp mentioned as well as the fact that along with the inability to conceive comes a statistically greater likelihood of egg problems, which contribute to m/cs. 

  
  
  
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• jonsdeedee

  January 2009

  I think IF women are monitored so early and so closely, that early miscarriages are caught.  While non-IF women just might think their period was a bit late.
  

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