Is there a link between infertility and miscarriage?

Many women who have noticed that they go through periods of infertility wonder if they run a greater than average risk of miscarrying. It might be even more worrisome for a couple who is struggling right now with problems of conception to imagine having to face the tragedy of a miscarriage. But you should not blind yourselves to one very basic fact: the same cause may be triggering both effects. 

Increasingly, medical research is coming to view the process of reproduction as a continuum: problems with fertility, miscarriage, and premature delivery are viewed as links in the same fragmented chain.

So, if you have previously been treated for infertility problems, you should be followed very closely by your doctor once a pregnancy is achieved. Your HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) levels will be monitored, as well as your progesterone levels. You will be possibly treated with progesterone suppositories in the early weeks of pregnancy, as an inadequate corpus luteum may be the root cause.

Bear in mind, however, a point as I raised before. The statistics for rates of miscarriage among such a high–risk group may appear artificially high because of the close scrutiny given these pregnancies. If you miscarry after receiving a very early positive pregnancy test, the loss will be recorded, whereas another woman might even have known she was pregnant.
As many stories of patients describe the social and emotional effects of suffering through infertility, miscarriage, and, in their cases, in vitro fertilization—should give hope to other couples who may be feeling the odds are too heavily stacked against their ever having their own baby.