Hi everyone
Thanks for sharing your stories. It helps to know that I am not alone in my experience. For myself, I have had 2 miscarriages within a year. The first one was in April and the second one was in Dec recently.
My first m/c was at about 7/8 weeks where a heartbeat could not be detected. I had no signs or any bleeding. I went for a D&C. Period came back in about 6 weeks time (doctor had advised that it shd be back in about 4 - 6 weeks). My husband and I were sad but life has to go on. When my gynae told me, I was trying to remain composed and went through the process and D&C with no outward signs of upset because I was trying to be strong for myself and my husband. My gynae may have thought I was an emotionless person.
No tests were done after the first m/c as that is not the general practice and it is usually regarded as a one-off random occurence.
I continued trying and was pregant for the second time. This time, I was nervous aboout it, but when we heard heartbeat at 7 weeks, we felt much better.
Unfortunately, when I went for my check up at week 11, we found no heartbeat again and foetus growth had arrested at 10 weeks. This time, I just cried silently at my gynae's. I asked to make payment another time (when I come back for my D&C 2 days later) as I cannot go back into the waiting room full of happy preggies to wait to make payment.
I am grateful that my gynae takes my m/c seriously (not writing them off as some others may) and advised that she will be ordering tests to see if we can find out the reason why the m/cs had happened.
I am still waiting for the outcome of my tests. My thyroid tests, APS test (bloof clotting disorder) are back and clear. The test to see if the foetus had any chromosomal abnormalities also came back normal ie. no abnormalities. Now we have sent my blood for further testing for other more rarer blood clotting tests and I am still awaiting the results.
After my 2 m/c, I have been reading everything I can get my hands on, on the internet, books to understand the reason for why they happened.
I just want to understand why it happened, if there is a problem, and how I can fix it. I am not sure if I will have any answers. If there are no answers I am afraid to try again.
This CNY was tough with relatives teasing and making jokes about us better hurry up to have a baby. It's not that I do not want to have one, I just can't, I am not able to.