Good evening ladies
I am nearly 30 weeks now and after seeing the midwife today I have found my platelets are low again (they have been monitored almost from day one as I had low platelets with my first born) they did go up to 157 a couple of weeks ago but have dropped down again to 122. I have been seeing a consultant who has gone through the motions of what happens if they go below 100 and then below 80 and he's said I can't have ventouse, baby can't have a clip on it's head and I can't have a "difficult" forceps delivery (my first born I ended up in theatre with forceps and he was a 10lb baby)
I know now that a water birth is probably almost definitely out the window as they said they can't measure blood loss, so I was wondering if anyone else had been in this position and how their births had gone. There was talk of an elective c section but I think I still want to avoid that if possible. Are second babies really much bigger than number 1 and are second births really quicker than first births? Sorry for the essay my mind is spinning!!! Xx