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Any midwives, doctors or hcps that can help with my blood results?

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bk1981 · 27/07/2025 20:16

I lost my son last week at fifteen weeks pregnant. I'd had a bleed the week before and a scan showed that baby was fine but there was a tear in my placenta. I was told that bedrest was not needed but that I should take things easy.

A week later my son was born and did not survive. The hospital are investigating potential causes but it could take six months and I am going out of my mind.

I was looking at my badger notes app (again) and decided to put my eight week blood tests into Google to check that everything was okay at my booking appointment. These are my blood test results:
FBC - Hb: 12.7 g/dL, 127 g/L | FBC - WCC: 12.60 109 /L | Platelets: 406.00 109 /L, 406,000.00 10^6 /L | Haematocrit (HCt): 0.374(Not Recorded) % | MCV: 84.5 fL

My papp a at the 12 week screening was 0.8 mom

The Google AI tells me that my blood results are not quite right and could indicate an infection/inflammation or blood disorder and my papp a is within range but on the lower end. I'm worried that perhaps there were a few things that weren't quite right but maybe they weren't wrong enough to raise red flags?

Can any hcp help me with this? I will ask my midwife but I'd like to know whether I'm overthinking things first or whether there was something that was missed.

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Greybeardy · 27/07/2025 20:31

Results need interpreting in the context of your medical history and with the full set of tests borne in mind. As part of the normal physiology of pregnancy white cell counts go up even without infection. If you’re worried that something was missed you really need to talk to the people who have access to the whole batch of tests as well as your medical info.

bk1981 · 27/07/2025 20:37

@Greybeardy I absolutely will talk to my midwife but I'd like to know if there is actually something to talk about or not first as I don't think 'I've googled my test results and think something was missed' is a way to get them to take me seriously.

I remember my midwife from my first pregnancy contacting me after my eight week bloods as my platelets were too high but she was unconcerned when I said I'd been really ill the week before the tests as this was likely the cause. I repeated the blood test a couple of weeks later and they were fine. I heard nothing back this time around so naturally assumed everything was fine.

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TenThousandSpoons00 · 27/07/2025 21:57

OP, I’m sorry you’re going through this. It’s natural to search for answers. However, that set of bloods contains nothing of particular concern, certainly nothing that would predict this outcome.
hopefully with time answers do come - often overall it may turn out to be that it is simply a terrible chance event that caused the bleed. After that, unfortunately some bleeds do lead to miscarriage either due to the bleeding irritating the uterus and starting contractions, or causing waters to break, or causing too much of the placenta to separate meaning baby can’t get enough nutrition/oxygen through the remaining placental circulation.
as PP says - only people with all the results available will be able to fully interpret for you.
be kind to yourself - that may involve trying to step away from Google for a wee bit x

bk1981 · 28/07/2025 06:01

@TenThousandSpoons00 Thank you for your kind answer. I know consulting doctor Google isn't the healthy thing to be doing but it's so hard not knowing when I'll see a proper doctor to go through things with me.

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