Should I be doing more?

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Last year we experienced two miscarriages. One of them being a late miscarriage at 16 weeks with our son. I am now 4 weeks and 4 days pregnant. My doctor doesn’t want me to come in for a dating ultrasound for another three weeks. Is this standard? I know it’s unlikely to see anything on an ultrasound right now but I just feel like I should be doing something to prevent another miscarriage. Blood work? Something! Does anyone have a similar experience? Did your doctor see you right away or did you wait? Maybe I just need something to put my mind at ease.

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You can’t do anything to prevent a miscarriage. It is usually caused by cell abnormalities. All you can do is take your prenatals and hope and part if you like.

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You cant do amything to prevent it. Youll just have to wait.

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I’m in the same boat, my doctor didn’t care to see me either until 9 weeks. It’s frustrating especially because you wanna make sure everything is okay since last time didn’t go well

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I’m sorry for your losses. My first was an ectopic pregnancy, so with my son shortly after, I had several blood tests and early sonograms. I got pregnant again when he was almost 9 months old, and I didn’t have my first sonogram until 12 weeks, so I think it’s totally normal to have ones later. My friend is a sonographer and said that they really don’t like doing them so early because people get super worried for not seeing things that they couldn’t reasonably see at that point anyway. I wish you a happy and healthy pregnancy!

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I had a miscarriage in January then got pregnant again In February m, I’m currently 12 weeks 4 days. My doctor put me on aspirin to help prevent miscarriage. She also did labs to check hcg and progesterone every couple of days for 2 weeks then did an early ultrasound at 5 weeks, we saw baby and heartbeat on first early scan and have had three more since. I just got my NIPT results and my baby is at very high risk of a chromosome abnormality so I will be having three more scans over the next 6 weeks. I’m 39 so that’s part of the reason for so many scans.

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Has your dr recommended doing anything? An ultrasound wouldn’t be ideal cause like you said you can’t see anything. Did you get results on your late miscarriage as to maybe why? They’ll probably do genetic testing but that won’t be until after 9-10 weeks. Some drs recommend start  low dose aspirin but you’ll wanna see what your dr recommends. There’s not much you can do right now though

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Have you gotten your progesterone checked? The only thing that could possibly help is if you have low progesterone you could go on supplements. Mine was 14 on Thursday, and Saturday it jumped to 40 after starting the supplements. Other than that, not much else you can do but take your prenatal and eat healthy. I am 6 weeks on Thursday and also have to wait until 9 weeks to go in. The wait is killing me!

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