PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for July, 2001: Re: 2nd miscarriage--both due to trisomy

Re: 2nd miscarriage--both due to trisomy

From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:47:18 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 20 Jul 2001, laura wrote: >
>I think I must have the worst luck in the world! How common is it for a
>woman and her husband to miscarry twice due to this "fluke?" (Trisomy 13
>detected on embryonic testing for the first miscarriage, and dr.
>suspects tri 16 or 18 due to very high hcg levels--still waiting for
>test results as I just miscarried this week.) Will our chances be the
>same for our third try as they were for the first and second times?
>We've both been genetically karyotped-with normal results. So why do we
>keep having this problem?
>Unlucky Laura

Laura, you do not mention your age. as we get older it is more likely for our eggs to not form properly, increasing hte odds of an abnormal number of chromosomes. This is bad luck. Since you and your husband both have normal chromosomes, this realy is a matter of fate -- and the odds of it happening again are not increased above and beyond yur age based risk.

-- M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG South Lake Tahoe, CA

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