Nothing seems to hit someone as hard as miscarriage. Shrouded in secrecy, people keep very quiet about miscarriages.
The estimates is 1 in 4 pregnancies end up with miscarriages and with the number increasing due to lifestyle changes and advanced age pregnancies.
85% of miscarriages are pregnancies in first trimester. 13-24 week miscarriage is rare but does happen.
Fortunately there are so many ways you can prevent miscarriages before IVF.
For example, you can do a thorough check for
- Fibroids
- Polyps
- Uterine lining infection
- Genetic Diseases
If you have polyps and proceed to do IVF, the embryo might have a difficult time trying to implant. A failed implantation or embryo that implant but cannot divide subsequently quickly enough will result in miscarriage.
Certain predisposed diseases will give a patient a higher chance of miscarriage and a strategy should be discussed with your doctor.
A properly designed and planned strategy will prevent emotional trauma of miscarriage.
It is important to know most embryos are not viable embryos.
- Odd shaped cells
- Not dividing
- Not dividing fast enough
- Not attaching to the uterine wall
Miscarriage is “lonely, painful, and demoralizing,”
Michelle Obama writes in her new memoir
