I’ve had a doctor admit, “Yes, we do think hyperfertility is a thing. Seven losses later (including a loss of twins), I’ve done everything from travel out of state to see specialists to spending lots of money on testing. That’s when you really get into the nitty gritty of how specific the endometrial lining might be – even the day of implantation can vary. Things get even harder when women do this, and still, they lose that embryo. IVF with PGS/PGD (essentially, genetic testing) lets you select the chromosomally normal embryos to implant. You dive fully into every niche forum you can find and learn about the “big” name doctors in the field that people spend thousands of dollars to see, desperate for that baby. You get told everything is normal and that either it’s “bad luck” or maybe there’s just some undiagnosed condition, and you get thrown a laundry list of prescriptions to take “just in case.” You do the laprascopy, the saline sono hysterogram, the hysteroscopy, etc. What happens when you are the one who keeps flipping that coin to the wrong side? You do the testing – the vials and vials of bloodwork. So where most women wouldn’t even get pregnant, hyperfertile women’s bodies were still giving these unviable embryos a chance. The endometrial stroma cells of the women with RPL, however, reached out for the chromosomally abnormal ones as well. When exposed to chromosomally normal embryos, both groups’ endometrial cells “reached out” to help it implant. And that’s where hyperfertility comes into play.Ī small study observed how the endometrial tissue of women of “normal” fertility and women with RPL differed. But the current medical knowledge states that most, if not all, of unexplained losses are likely chromosomal abnormalities. Immune issues, blood clotting disorders, RH factor, and so on. There are several reasons RPL could be happening. Three losses or more in a row affects roughly 1% of the population, so not as common, though as I like to point out to people, “Only 1% of the world’s population is redheaded, but most of us know a redhead.” You likely know a woman who’s experienced RPL, even if she’s never shared that story. Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is defined as two or three miscarriages in a row. The dreaded “bad luck” or “unexplained” recurrent miscarriages. Great, right? That’s one of the big hurdles in getting pregnant!Įxcept hyperfertility is a medical term used not for having lots of babies, but for losing lots of babies. We are familiar with women who hyperovulate – releasing more than one egg, more regularly than others – but now we’re learning there might be some women who get pregnant more easily than others because of the receptivity of their uterus, specifically their endometrial lining. It’s a twisted reality I’ve learned in the last two years. Hyperfertility is a tentative medical diagnosis as of right now, where fertility can be too much of a good thing. Let’s talk about a word that makes most women embarrassed to mention it once they’ve learned about it, especially when we all know someone who’s struggled to conceive: Hyperfertility.

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