Repeat Miscarriage

Using the drugs prednisone, progesterone, aspirin and folate clinicians in Austria have reported success with reducing miscarriages in cases where the reason for repeat miscarriage was unexplained.

Women treated with prednisone, progesterone, aspirin and folate had a considerably higher birth rate than untreated subjects, the investigators report. The overall birth rates were 77 and 35 percent, respectively.

The rates of first- and second-trimester miscarriage also favored the treatment group. Nineteen percent of treated women miscarried in the first trimester compared with 63 percent of comparison women. None of the treated women miscarried in the second trimester compared with 2 percent of untreated women.

"In addition, we did not note a higher rate of preterm birth or (fetal) growth restriction among the treatment group," Tempfer's team reports.

I love reading articles like this. Ones that give some sort of hope to women facing miscarriage, by actually doing something about it.

I believe that if there would have been some sort of homework, or busywork assigned to me during my fated miscarriages, I might have felt a bit more in control, and had a bit more faith that my doctor's were treating my concerns with respect. I know that they were following protocol at the time by just having us wait and see, but the frustration and level of stress by waiting and doing nothing was not helpful to my mental state. In fact, the feeling that I was mostly left with was that since there was nothing that could be done, why approach the doctor's office in the first place. During our second pregnancy, I felt so helpless with the situation, that I tried to avoid the office altogether until the miscarriage actually started. Looking back, I know that this decision was fear based, not knowledge based. But, if I would have felt that there might be something to be done to save the baby, I would have been there from day one.