Click here for episode 1 Six months had passed since Irene’s positive LAC (Lupus Anti Coagulant) test. The initial relief and excitement she had felt had gone away and she came in to discuss her options. After all, she had suffered four miscarriages, but then finally learned a reason for the miscarriages. We were ready [...]

Click here for episode 1 Irene’s testing came back with a positive result, for a test called Lupus Anti-Coagulant (LAC). Instead of being depressed about having something abnormal, she was actually happy, especially when she learned that there was a way to address this problem. The name, Lupus Anticoagulant, is paradoxically misleading. Most women with [...]

Click here for episode 1 Irene bravely finished sharing the stories behind her previous four miscarriages. She gathered herself together and we began going down the list of possibilities, searching for a reason to explain her many pregnancy losses, and more importantly, hoping to figure out the right interventions to minimize the chance of a [...]

Click here for episode 1 Irene and Harold continue their consultation appointment. They are here for help regarding their repeated miscarriages. The fourth pregnancy occurred towards the end of their second year of marriage. Ironically, instead of being happy with her positive pregnancy test, Irene was terrified. She immediately made an appointment with her OB. [...]

Click here for episode 1 Irene and Harold are here for help because all four of their pregnancies so far have ended in miscarriage. We talked and elicited more information. Irene worked as a nurse. She liked her job and described it as being moderately stressful only. She did not work with any radiation or [...]

When I met Harold and Irene, I quickly learned that their story was different from those of other patients.  Unlike other couples who had trouble getting pregnant, Harold and Irene had gotten pregnant easily on their own four times in the past three years. Their problem was pregnancy losses. Irene was 31 years old and [...]

Click here for episode 1 Summary: Caroline returns today for her second prenatal ultrasound. The first one was done at around 6 weeks and showed two gestational sacs. Today, Caroline is 8 weeks pregnant. Her last ultrasound showed two gestational sacs, but heart motion was not yet seen. She chose this particular day for her [...]

Click here for episode 1 Summary: Caroline is now pregnant after doing an aggressive IUI cycle in which she had six mature-sized follicles. It was roughly estimated that she had close to a 40-50% chance of getting pregnant and close to a 1-2% chance of triplets. She was clearly informed and she chose to take [...]

Click here for episode 1 I knew something was up. Even as I sat in my private office, going over patient charts and answering email, I could hear happy shouts coming from the outside my door. I looked at my schedule. We had just finished the last ultrasound of the morning and I was pretty [...]

June’s story has spilled over a bit into July Click here for episode 1 Caroline is set to start her fifth attempted IUI cycle. Three previous cycles failed to result in pregnancy and one previous attempt was cancelled, never making it to the ovulation stage. My recommendation was to do an HSG to make sure [...]