what causes low hormone levels in blood during pregnancy, causing misscarrage?

Serial hCG blood tests are two quantitative hCG blood tests done two to three days apart. In early pregnancy, the hCG level is supposed to double roughly every two to three days. If the hCG doubling time is slower or if the level decreases over time, this is a possible sign of miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy.

If you are having hCG levels checked because of miscarriage symptoms in early pregnancy, your doctor will most likely need you to have serial blood tests rather than a single hCG level in order to get information on how your pregnancy is progressing.

What the Results Mean:

Your doctor is the best person to tell you what your hCG levels mean, because normal hCG levels vary heavily from person to person, and single hCG levels (even single low hCG levels) do not give much information on how a pregnancy is progressing.

Your doctor can compare the information from your hCG results to other information in your medical history, such as whether or not you are having miscarriage symptoms, in order to make a diagnosis.

In general, however, if the hCG levels are dropping in the first trimester, this probably a sign of impending miscarriage. Slow-rising hCG levels that do not double every two or three days in early pregnancy can be a sign of problems but can also still result in a normal pregnancy.

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Your doc will have to tell you what causes it but below is some info. on how to get your levels up!

High Homocysteine levels

If you have suffered at least one miscarriage, or your doctor has indicated that you are at a higher risk for miscarriage than most women, you may want to find out what your Homocysteine levels are to thwart a devastating result to your pregnancy.

Homocysteine is a common sulfar-containing amino acid found in the body. While it is not harmful in normal levels, when those levels get too high (especially during pregnancy), it can cause a condition called hypercoagulability. What does this mean? In general, your blood clots much more easily than it should. Not only can it put you at a higher risk for a heart attack and stroke, but it can put your baby in danger as well.

Researchers in Bergen/Osb Norway studied several thousand patients and reported that Homocysteine levels higher than 10-10.7 increased a woman’s chance of a miscarriage by a whopping 38% . You can read more about the homocysteine and the miscarriage connection here…

Immunological Disorders

For reasons unknown to doctors and scientists the body sometimes will attack the fetus or sperm; sometimes caused by elevated natural killer cells or HLA incompatibility. This is called a immunological disorder or immune system based miscarriage. In the past the only options available for this were the same treatments and medications organ transplant patients receive (which most doctors won’t even perform), but thank goodness there are natural therapies that offer some hope in this area that have been shown to be successful through human studies.

Hormonal Imbalance

There are many links between hormonal imbalances and recurrent miscarriages. The hormonal system is an intricate orchestra of hormones that run on a very specific schedule. If one of these hormones is out of balance, it can affect the rest of the cycle, possibly impacting early pregnancy. Some of these imbalances may be:

Low progesterone

Progesterone is necessary for pregnancy for many reasons, but one of the main ones it that it preserves the uterine lining so the new embryo can attach and be nourished while the placenta is being formed. If progesterone is low the lining will shed, causing menstruation to begin.

High estrogen

If estrogen levels in the body are high, this can cause many issues but specifically it can cause low progesterone.