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After 4 miscarriages, I was on Lovenox, baby aspirin, progesterone, AND prednisone (steriod) with my current pregnancy for the first trimester. I was worried about how steriods would effect the baby and I was afraid it was "jumping the gun" but my OB and my RE assured me that it won't. They said anything your body makes naturally - like progesterone and steroids - can't hurt the baby in low doses.

Steroids have been used to treat recurrent miscarriages in the UK for quite some time now, especially for natural killer cells and other immune issues. Try googling "steroids miscarriage UK" You will find several articles about it. I wondered why it has taken dr's in the US so long to use steroids... maybe because medicine in Europe is socialized and IVIG makes more money!?! Steriods are very inexpensive, easy to administer (tiny little pills), and proven to prevent miscarriages due to immune issues.

Anyway - I personally believe it's worth trying before any of the expensive invasive treatments like IVIG and Dr. Beer's protocol.

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