You do not need any tests or precautions and no medicines except folic acid in the next pregnancy also. We cannot prevent these early abortions and even if we could we should not as it would lead to abnormal babies. This is natural selection (Darwinism) and we should not interfere in it. Please do not worry there are no faults in you and there are no precaution or drugs, which prevent such abortions, and even if there were, we would not like to use them. Read: Can I become a mother after recurrent abortions? You do not have to wait at all before you plan another one (the traditional advice of waiting for 6 months has no proven scientific rationale). Once the diagnosis is confirmed by a good ultrasound examination you should abort this pregnancy.

Since you already have a normal child there is nothing to worry. Reproductive wastage is an unavoidable event in nature. Almost 50% of all early pregnancies abort (about 20% after a diagnosis and others even earlier). This aborts and it is best that it aborts rather than lead to an abnormal baby. When an abnormal sperm or egg mates, we get an abnormal fetus. In any given semen specimen about 30% sperms are abnormal and by the same logic many eggs are abnormal as well. This is because of an abnormality in the foetus and is only an accident of nature.

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