Sorry I haven't been on here much. I had a medical setback. As some of you may remember I had a blood clot from my groin to ankle on my left side that I had surgery on jan 15th. In the surgery they removed some clot and placed a filter to prevent any of the clot going to my lungs. The ER doc had guessed that I had a pulmonary embolism but did not want to subject me to the ct while pregnant. I had stayed in the hospital for 6 days. I went home and slowly began to feel worse. The 6th day at home I passed out lost consciousness and all that. The ambulance took me back into hospital due to my low blood pressure. Turns out my body had a reaction to the blood thinner I was on and I required 2 more units of blood. My platelets were critically low as well as my hemoglobin. I was having horrible back and side of my abdomen pain. The ER doctor did a ct this time which did show a clot in my lung. A Vascular ultrasound a day later showed a clot in my right upper leg. Basically from the filter located at my stomach level down my abdominal veins were full of clots. I remained in hospital for over two weeks on bed rest. It was horrible. They took me off the heparin and started me on another blood thinner which the effect on baby is unknown. While in the hospital we also had to determine whether we would terminate this pregnancy.
Obviously because of all this I have risked out of the birth centre. Baby will be induced early so that doctors are better able to control the situation. Blood thinners will need to be stopped prior to birth. At this point we are moving ahead with the pregnancy.
Just praying the ct and meds don't affect the baby. That I don't produce any more clots especially around the birth when the risk is greatest.
I am feeling stronger everyday. I am 16w5d today and I feel baby shifting around daily which I love. Still need to take zofran everyday on waking or I spend the day throwing up :/ one day at a time.
Obviously because of all this I have risked out of the birth centre. Baby will be induced early so that doctors are better able to control the situation. Blood thinners will need to be stopped prior to birth. At this point we are moving ahead with the pregnancy.
Just praying the ct and meds don't affect the baby. That I don't produce any more clots especially around the birth when the risk is greatest.
I am feeling stronger everyday. I am 16w5d today and I feel baby shifting around daily which I love. Still need to take zofran everyday on waking or I spend the day throwing up :/ one day at a time.
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