I have been on and off of this app throughout all of my short lived pregnancies and have gotten great advice and useful information from all of you so I decided to make a post about my experiences so that anyone else dealing with the same things may be able to find an answer themselves.

I had a miscarriage a couple of years ago very very early on, 6-7 weeks. It was a typical one, nothing out of the ordinary. I didn’t think that I would ever go through that again.

January of this year, I found out I was pregnancy again. A couple weeks in, when I was estimated to be 8 weeks, I got a scan done at a ultrasound place *not medically professional* and they placed me at 5 weeks 6 days. Again, they reassured me and so did my doctor that everything was A-Ok and “This is common.” A couple more weeks go by and around the time I should’ve been 10 weeks, another scan shows that my baby still had not grown, there was no petal pole and no heartbeat. I had to get a D&C in February.

The end of April this year, I found out I was pregnancy again. This time it wasn’t exciting and fun emotions that came, it was fear and anxiety of having to go through this AGAIN. I decided that my doctor just wasn’t doing enough for me to figure out what was wrong. I mean I’m 21 years old and I’m healthy so why can I not carry a child? Unfortunately, before I was able to get into my first appt with my new doctor, I had another miscarriage in June. This time, it was more real and raw. For some reason this one hit me far worse than the two before and I felt like I reached rock bottom. My new doctor was so passionate about my case, he did lab draw after lab draw, so many tests. He obviously diagnosed me with recurrent miscarriages. Then, he was finally was able to tell me that I have Factor V Leiden thrombophilia and that it causes blood clots to form between baby and placenta. He put me on about 8 different medicines to try and help this, I’m taking so many vitamins, progesterone pills and a testosterone lowering pill. Once I finally get clearance to try again, I will with confidence in my body and the hope and strength I need to finally have a successful pregnancy.

Hopefully this helps someone, who has recurrent miscarriages but is unsure why. Ask to get tested for Factor V Leiden thrombophilia, just to make sure.

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