I Can Get Pregnant, But I Can't STAY Pregnant- 3 tests to test for

Who I am, I'm Erica Hoke. I'm a fertility coach. I had a 1% chance of getting pregnant and now I'm a mom of 4. So all of them born after 35, by the way. So today we're talking about I can get pregnant, but I can't stay pregnant. And there are 3 tests I really want to highlight today, but there's actually more tests than just 3. So, um, just so you know, I'm going to send you to some additional resources that I have because This is a really long topic, um, a really long conversation to have, and we don't have time to do it right here. So 5 minutes, I'm going to keep it to 5 minutes, and then I'm going to send you, um, some links and you can go check out, um, some other resources. If this hits the mark for you and you are like, well, wait a minute, that could be me. That's what I want you to do. I want you to start getting curious about why you can get pregnant and not stay pregnant. Because your body is talking to you. So the first test that I want you to strongly consider and make sure— I cannot tell you the number of times that a client has come to me and said, "My doctor tested me for everything. I'm 100% sure that there's not a test that he or she has not tested me for." And we find over and over and over again through some detective work and going through files that that's simply not the case. So the first test that I want you to make sure 100% check that box is Factor V Leiden. So there's some other blood clotting, usually this is done as a blood clotting panel, and I'm gonna tell you a few things about Factor V Leiden, but if you wanna know, if you wanna go deep, if you wanna have a deep dive, I did a whole training in my free group on Facebook and you can just hop in there and take a look at it. So the first thing with factor V Leiden, it's really confusing to people because it can cause primary infertility, it can cause secondary infertility, it can cause early miscarriage, it can cause late miscarriage and stillbirth. So it's a really tricky thing for people to like wrap their heads around. It's not complicated, but, um, it affects people differently. And up to 80%— the geneticist told us that up to 80% of the population is a carrier for Factor V Leiden, which means they have at least one gene. So this is something that can really be contributing to your recurrent miscarriage. So please, if you've had even one miscarriage, get tested for this. APS, which is antiphospholipid syndrome. APS is what it stands for. It's an autoimmune disorder and it is associated also with repeat miscarriage. Um, it prevents the embryo from embedding properly into your uterus. And so for that reason, then that causes your miscarriage. So also easily diagnosed with a, uh, with just a simple blood test. APS also causes things like restricted fetal growth and that sort of thing. So it's definitely something that you want to rule out if you've had even one miscarriage. Okay, so the third thing is really a tricky little, a tricky little bacteria. It's a tricky little bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis. I'm going to send you to YouTube if you want to hear a longer story about Erin Banks' story with your riaplasma. But your riaplasma is tricky for a few different reasons. Also causes miscarriage. So it's something that can cause repeat miscarriage and also procedure failure. So IVF and IUI can fail repeatedly because of your riaplasma. Infection. And so, um, it's interesting because, uh, for a few different reasons— it's tricky and interesting for a few different reasons. One being that it's really hard to culture. So your OB-GYN or your fertility doctor can culture you and tell you you don't have ureaplasma, but you're still symptomatic. So what, what do those symptoms look like? Those symptoms look like feelings of urinary tract infection but no protein in your urine or no other detectable culture from that standpoint. Excuse me. So it's hard to get an official diagnosis, but let me tell you the cure The treatment for ureaplasma is a simple $10 antibiotic. Again, so this is a little bit of a tricky thing. You can't just treat yourself. You also have to treat your partner. Okay? So in order to get rid of ureaplasma, you both have to go through a course of antibiotics, and sometimes you have to go through multiple courses of antibiotics. So ureaplasma doesn't have a cell wall. Which common antibiotics attack to resolve infection. So sometimes it takes multiple rounds. Now, I'm not a huge fan of antibiotics. I'm just going to tell you, like, gut health is everything in my house. However, in this case, this could be the very reason of what is preventing you from getting— from keeping your pregnancy. Erin's story, again, is amazing. We don't have time to go into it here, but it was multiple miscarriages, multiple failed IUIs, and in the end, once she was treated for her ureaplasma, once her husband was treated for her ureaplasma, then they were able to get pregnant and not only pregnant one time, she then conceived when her second daughter was 4 months old, just spontaneously. So there's a couple other tests that we don't have time to go into, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna drop the link for the blog here below. And you can either go read about it, or if you go to the blog that has the links for the YouTube video, I'm providing you a ton of resources on this because it's so important. If you have miscarried, if you've miscarried, please don't let your doctor tell you that it's normal. Let's not normalize losing a baby. And in some, in some instances, we'll not even test you. The medical community will not even test you until you've lost 3 babies. That's not okay with me. Okay, so we want to get these things tested. I want you to advocate for yourself and get tested, um, so that you can move forward with your pregnancy and that you can rest and trust that that pregnancy is going to be viable and end in a baby in your arms. Okay, that's it for today. Health and blessings to you guys. Have a great, beautiful spring day, and I'll see you