The message I got from my ob about my age and risk of loss
She says,
"Our recommendation to all women, whether they have had miscarriages or not, is to take 500mcg of folic acid/folate every day. Folic acid ONLY decreases the chance that baby does not have Spina bifida. It doesn't decrease the risk of miscarriage. Women can write anything they want on the Internet, so you will read a lot of things that aren't really correct. There is no evidence that Coq10 decreases miscarriage. In Australia, we do not recommend the use of baby aspirin or progesterone. Professor Wallace from Monash Health is a world authority, and he believes these will not help. Your only increased risk of miscarriage and a baby with abnormalities is your age. At your age, your pregnancy has a higher chance of being a miscarriage than it has of giving you a baby. At your age, if you do carry a baby, that baby has a greater than 1 in 10 chance of having Down Syndrome. I am pleased you want to be as healthy as possible, but you are not able to change the one thing that really gives you a high risk of miscarriage, and a high risk of a baby with abnormalities. That one thing is your age."
What do you ladies think? She had the same attitude when I saw her after my miscarriage. She told me bluntly that there was basically no hope of me carrying a baby to term at MY AGE and, even if I did, it would most likely have something wrong with it. Are obstetricians in other countries this negative about women having babies in their 40s?