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1. Why Miscarriages can be Misdiagnosed All too often, a miscarriage diagnosis ends in miscarriage.  Sadly, miscarriages are all too common.  However, sometimes women are told they are destined to miscarry when, in fact, their babies are just fine.  When Miscarriage is suspe...
2. Miscarriage Miscarrying a baby is a painful experience. It is also one that you will never forget. I miscarried a baby several years ago, if my baby had lived, she would be almost eight years old today. Although the grief subsides after a while, the memory will...
3. Handling Miscarriage Miscarriage happens in about 25% of pregnancies (most very early on and un-noticed), yet it is rarely mentioned or discussed. This lens outlines my experience with the horrible world of miscarriage and what useful information I have found. Please kee...
4. When a Blighted Ovum is not a Blighted Ovum! Hi. My name is Kay and I am the mother of a six year old not-so-blighted ovum. I was misdiagnosed back in 2002 and told at my 5 1/2 and 6 week ultrasounds that I most likely had a blighted ovum. After my 7 and 8 week ultrasounds, my doctor strongly r...
5. Tilted Uterus and Early Pregnancy Yes, many medical sites say a tilted uterus really does not affect an early pregnancy.  However, based on the many stories at the Misdiagnosed Miscarriage , we think it might. If you are newly pregnant and have been told you have a tilted uterus...
6. Bleeding During the First Trimester In the many posts and emails on the Misdiagnosed Miscarriage site, women often want to know if there is any hope for them if they are bleeding or spotting during pregnancy. I have also experienced bleeding and spotting during pregnancy and I unders...
7. 16 Days Past Ovulation (DPO) and hCG levels We can learn such amazing things about our pregnancies these days.  Our doctors love, love, love to check those hCG levels.  Knowing our levels is not always such a good thing  because doctors will see lower levels and scare women half...
8. hCG levels and Pregnancy As a result of my first and second misdiagnosed miscarriages, I receive messages from women daily asking if they might too be misdiagnosed. Many of the questions center around hCG levels and its importance. I am not a medical professional but have do...
9. Progesterone and Miscarriage As a result of talking to many women going through miscarriage scares. I have learned a bit about the importance of progesterone and how it is an issue in some pregnancies.  Too many doctors downplay the significance of supplements during the fi...
10. The First Trimester: Enlarged Yolk Sac When a woman is told she has an enlarged yolk sac during the first trimester, often she is told there is no hope and miscarriage is inevitable. Thanks to the Misdiagnosed Miscarriage site and our numerous misdiagnosed miscarriage stories, we now kno...
11. Is This Really an Ectopic Pregnancy? An estimated 2% of all pregnancies are found to be ectopic. If not treated immediately, ectopic pregnancies can affect future fertility and are even a leading cause of maternal death during the first trimester. At the Misdiagnosed Miscarriage site,...
12. blighted ovum Six years ago I was diagnosed with a blighted ovum. After three and a half very miserable weeks, I found I was misdiagnosed. Since that time, I have talked with many women on the Misdiagnosed Miscarriage site who are correctly and incorrectly diagno...
13. Miscarrying? Why You May Want an Ultrasound Before Your D&C A doctor would never misdiagnose something as important as a miscarriage, right? Unfortunately, the answer is that yes, they can and do misdiagnose miscarriages. Well, then, a doctor would never unintentionally take a viable baby after a miscarriag...
14. My First Misdiagnosed Miscarriage at 12 Weeks! Hi. My name is Kay. I am probably best known online for my misdiagnosed blighted ovum story. Since I first shared my story online, hundreds more have shared their misdiagnosed stories as well. My blighted ovum story was not my first misdiagnosed mi...
15. Getting a Second Opinion about a Miscarriage Diagnosis "Something as serious as a miscarriage would never be misdiagnosed, right?" This is a question I have heard time and again from women who are wondering if they could be misdiagnosed. In fact, until recently, just about every site dedicated to miscar...
16. Why You May Want to Rethink Having a D&C Hi. I'm Kay. As a result of my misdiagnosed miscarriage story, I receive numerous email messages from women going through their own miscarriage scares. I've noticed that more and more women are emailing me who are either suffering from Asherman's Syn...
17. Miscarriage in the News So, why have a page on miscarriage in the news? After all, generally women are not researching miscarriages until they are either going through a miscarriage scare or have already miscarried. But, that is the point of this page. This page is not mea...
18. Miscarriage Advice For Dads From Dads Miscarriage sucks, but it happens a lot more than you realize until it happens to you and your family. Once I was sucked into dealing with it, I realized that while it hits the mother the hardest (because she bonds deeper with the baby as she carries...
19. A Memory of Miscarriage I was a bit older when I married the man of my dreams. At 30-plus years old, I had started to wonder if it would ever happen. Finally I met the one, and we got married shortly after we both turned 33. After a couple of years we thought it was about t...
20. Tips on Getting Pregnant With PCOS If you are planning on getting pregnant but suffer from PCOS the news is not very positive. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome causes a number of problems relating directly to pregnancy including: * Irregular Menstruation making it difficult to impossible t...