My 2nd, 3rd and 4th pregnancies were all terminated at about 15 weeks. All pregnancies began with a confirmation at about 6 weeks, foetal heartbeat at 8 weeks and heartbeat gone at 14 to 15 weeks. The 2nd pregnancy was in late 1995, and the 3rd and 4th in 1996, with all of them just six months apart from each other.
The 3rd pregnancy I had chicken pox, which I think I contracted from a friend's daughter recovering from one. Although I was told by Dr Chuah that me having chicken pox would not harm the pregnancy, God knows best and that pregnancy suffered the same fate as the 2nd pregnancy.
The pregnancies themselves were not a miscarriage, in that I never had any bleeding, even after finding out there was no foetal heartbeat. I guess you could just term the situation as a pregnancy loss. Dr Chuah did not perform D&C (Dilation & Curettage) because the scraping of the uterus lining in the D&C process will result in thinning it and harm my chances of having babies in the future. What he did was just extraction of the pregnancy sac through a suction process done at the clinic under sedation.
I have been told that the reasons why this works out for the best is that God knows best and knows that if the pregnancy continues, the foetus may develop complications or chromosomal abnormalities. I don't know. I certainly did not expect to have three consecutive pregnancy losses and in retrospect, being young helped me cope with the whole situation better. I think I kinda expected that I would be able to conceive again and Munirah was just 1 year plus then.
I was advised by Dr Chuah not to try get pregnant and let the womb rest after the three losses. I did and Zarif was only conceived in early 1998, which made 1997 a total rest year.
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