What are you trying to stay pregnant?

After my 8th miscarriage I have so much anxiety about getting pregnant again and having another miscarriage.
We are TTC again and my constant prayer is that I will only get pregnant with a baby I can keep. I don't care how long it takes as long as I don't end up with another loss.

Idk if it's healthy or not, but to curb my anxiety I have been going deep down the rabbit hole of OTC (as I have a Dr who can't/won't even run a recurrent loss blood panel on me and it's a year long wait to get in to see a specialist so I am on my own trying to figure things out) methods that may help with a successful pregnancy.

I have just learned of the antihistamine protocol (Claritin, benadryl and pepcid) and have started that today, and have also just started taking low dose aspirin.

I have taken low dose aspirin previously through a pregnancy after 4 consecutive losses (but then went and had a successful pregnancy where I didn't do *anything* and haven't used it since through 3 more miscarriages.)

I will also be using progesterone cream when I get a BFP - I don't think progesterone is my issue but I stopped using it at 9 weeks with my last pregnancy and my baby passed between 11 and 12 weeks (I didn't know until I miscarried at 14 weeks) and now I have a mental connection between stopping it too soon and fetal demise.


I also went to weekly acupuncture in the first trimester with my son after 4 losses, and while I can't afford weekly visits this time around, I plan to go twice a month for longer whenever I do get pregnant again.

So the TL;DR version:

1. Antihistamine protocol
2. Low dose aspirin
3. Progesterone cream
4. Acupuncture every two weeks.


If anyone has anything else to add I'd love to hear it.

 

Thanks. The article is unfortunately behind a paywall. But I am already very focused on nutrition and there was 18 months between my last miscarriage and the one before that, and I have a quadruple rainbow (6 years old) who was conceived immediately following miscarriage with no period in between, so I'm not sure it will make a difference in my situation.