Hello mumsnet,
Whilst pregnant with baby #3 I was found to have very low platelets. I seemed to have it throughout my pregnancy but this was only picked up at 34 weeks because they somehow had missed it earlier on despite doing the usual blood tests etc.
The baby was born and my platelets started increasing again so they discharged me and I thought nothing more of it. We had wanted to have another baby straight after and so within 6 months started TTC. Now with all previous pregnancies I conceived straight away and it just wasn't happening this time but again I put it down to my age, at that point I was 33-34 and didn't think much of it until this year I thought I might have thyroid issues, but the blood test flagged up a seriously low platelet count instead and I was found to have ITP, one of the causes of this is pregnancy and I guess in my case it never really went away, it just goes up and down and I have extremely heavy periods every two weeks!
Against the odds I fell pregnant back in August, however by early september at 6/7 weeks pregnant I had a miscarriage and I think it was down to ITP.
Does anyone else have any experience with this or know much more about it? Has anyone had this and gone on to have children without complications? On a day to day basis it doesn't affect me crazily so I avoid taking steroids etc to increase it.
Since the miscarriage though my periods have gone back to a normal cycle but I don't seem to be ovulating at all anymore. Why are our bodies so crazy???
Thanks for reading this far! Just wanted to hear some success stories I guess...