Tuesday, July 14, 2009

I just had 11 viles of blood taken including a chromsomal test to insure why i've had 4 m/c in a row?

All m/c occured within 7 weeks except my last in which I lost the baby at 20 weeeks due to cord wrapped 3 times around her neck. My question is what are the chances of it being chromsonal? It runs in either of our familys! we have a 7 year old daughter and that pregnancy went gtreat, with all the test do you think it possible to actualy concive a normal healthy baby again?

I just had 11 viles of blood taken including a chromsomal test to insure why i've had 4 m/c in a row?
Most miscarriages, especially first trimester ones like yours, happen due to some developmental problem with the fetus. This is often a genetic problem severe enough that development cannot continue, so the pregnancy ends because it could never have resulted in a baby. However, the fact that you have a child shows that if you do have a genetic defect, it wouldn't be present in every egg or every sperm, so there is a possibility that you could conceive another child. Genetic screening exists in which eggs are fertilized in vitro and the genes of each embryo are screened to determine which of them carry the defect and which do not. The only embryos that could be implanted in your womb would be those which did not carry the defect and could develop into a baby. The other embryos would not be physically able to develop even if they were implanted in your womb, because they would have that defect. It would be up to you and your husband to decide if that is something you would want to do, if in fact there is a genetic defect.





It is also possible that you have a physical problem preventing you from carrying to term. Have you had a gynecologist exam to determine if there is anything wrong? I doubt that this is the problem because you are losing your pregnancies so early, but it would be good just to make sure everything is ok.





Good luck!


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