Miscarriages - your questions answered

sadsusie: I lost identical twins at 8 weeks, nearly 4 weeks ago. I had a D&C - there wasn't much bleeding and no pain, within a few days I felt ok. Now I feel pregnant again, what are the chances? I did do a test but found it confusing. On the first one there was a really faint pinkish dot when you held it up to the light, but on the next, it was hardly there. My cycles are only about 21/24 days. I would love to have a baby but am just scared that I might m/c again as it?s to soon. When should I test again?
Dr. Gillian Lockwood: I'm sorry to hear about your recent miscarriage. Identical twin pregnancies are much more likely to miscarry than non-identicals and there are often complications in the pregnancy such as twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Now we have scans and can date pregnancies accurately there is no real reason to 'wait' after a miscarriage before trying again. It can take some time for all the pregnancy hormone (hCG) to disappear from the blood stream, so that may be why your 'test' was faintly positive. Best advice is to repeat the test in a week's time. By then it will either be completely negative or positive.