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Dr Jacobs, I am 9 weeks pregnant through IVF and found out I am having a miscarriage. I have done a lot of research on the causes of miscarriages and everything I have read states the miscarriage rate drops to <5% when you detect the fetal heartbeat via ultrasound. Therefore it is not that common to have a miscarriage at this point. What would be the likely causes of miscarriages that occur at this time and does this mean I am more likely to have another one? Also, are miscarriages more common in first pregnancies? This was my first pregnancy and we detected the fetal heartbeat at 7 weeks and all was well. At 8 weeks I started spotting and found out the pregnancy had stopped growing but htbeat is still there. Now we are just waiting for it to stop. Thanks for you help.
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I have no way of knowing why you lost your pregnancy. Ity may be that it did not have the correct chromosome complement. As you know, there is a risk of pregnancy loss, even after the fetal heart has been identified. There is not a statistcally greater risk of a second miscarriage, unless you have a predisposing risk factor. If you wish to read about evaluation of recurrent pregnancy loss, I have provided information on our web page, <www.texasfertility.com>.
Good luck.
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