Hi everyone,

I am, most likely, in the process of going through my second chemical pregnancy, with a six-week miscarriage in between (CP August, MC October, and another CP December).

The doctor I saw in October, and the nurse practitioner I have been seeing lately both told me with three miscarriages I would be referred to a specialist. I'm waiting to see if that will happen.

But now I'm wondering -- do specialists count CPs as losses? I know they are very common, and I know that many people wouldn't even catch them. The stand-in doctor I saw today gave me a bit of the "you are really, really early pregnant; when I was having kids we wouldn't have even caught these" spiel.

I'm scared to keep trying on our own, because of the CPs, and both have occurred late enough that I've had relatively strong test lines. But if I'm being referred it's going to likely be a long wait and involve out of town travel, so I'm trying to steel myself for whether or not I'm likely to hear that, in the eyes of a fertility clinic, I don't actually have a recurrent loss problem.

Just looking for any perspective anyone may have.