TW recurrent miscarriage: baby aspirin conflicting advice

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I've finally had a midwife from the recurrent miscarriage clinic speak to me after falling pregnant again after 3 miscarriages (MMC at 11 weeks, two more losses just before 5 weeks).

When I rang my GP after first learning I was pregnant they suggested taking a baby aspirin, which I did. I'm now 6 weeks in. The midwife said they don't advise taking baby aspirin before a heartbeat is confirmed but said it's my choice whether to carry on.

I'm now worried I was wrong to listen to the GP. Does anyone know why they say to wait until a heartbeat has been confirmed? I'm scared I've messed this up

You haven't messed anything up. The whole point is that it thins the blood ever so slightly, so while those teeny tiny vessels are being formed in the early stages, the blood doesn't get stuck anywhere. Or so it was explained to me!!

And anyway, you're taking it now, so just carry on!

To add: I took it from CD1, that is, I was taking it anyway even before ovulation, conception, bfp etc!

Thank you @Flederjo, it's such an anxious time and the smallest things set me off. I did research when I started taking it and know how commonly it is taken in pregnancy but it is still scary when someone suggests it is wrong - even though another medical professional suggested it!

Have they also put you on progesterone pessaries? That's usually what they do after multiple miscarriages.

Yes, prescription coming through this week. And high dose folic acid. I've been taking pregnacare for ages so I'm not sure whether I need to stop that or if there is no top boundary for folic acid.

I was going to ask but my brain just froze at the baby aspirin thing

Hhmm, no idea as to folic acid dosage I'm afraid, but good about the progesterone!

All the best for the stickiest bean! 🤗

I took baby aspirin with my second pregnancy (first was premmie and it's supposed to help with ensuring a higher birth weight) but I'm pretty sure it wasn't until 12 weeks I can remember them telling me to take it when they did all the blood work. I'm sure it won't do any harm before then as they're something you can take whilst pregnant and it's such a low dose. Hope everything goes well for you.

I took it from as soon as I knew I was pregnant with ds1 after multiple miscarriages. Consultant said research was still being figured out at that stage but that at such a small dosage there was absolutely nothing to lose, no harm that could be done but everything to gain by the possibility of it working.
I got to 37 weeks with ds before the placenta stopped working, scary start to life but hes a healthy happy 4 year old now.
When I went on to have dd the same consultant doubled my dosage of baby aspirin based on previous pregnancy and put me on high dose folic acid too. As far as I can remember it was high dose folic acid and I was free to keep taking the pregncare too. Dd will be 1 next weekend🙂

Hi also wondering on conflicting advice re the baby aspirin. Did you continue taking it? Did it help?

@Sunshine2243 I did continue taking it but the amount changed. I was taking 75mg from finding out I was pregnant. I had a scan at around 7 weeks to confirm heartbeat and they found a small bleed next to the pregnancy sac. I freaked out at this thinking the aspirin had caused it but the midwife at the miscarriage clinic said the policy was to say take 150mg of aspirin once heartbeat was confirmed and didn't want me to stop taking it. We agreed to keep to the 75mg because of the bleed and wait a bit.

Next scan was two weeks later and the bleed had resolved itself. I had an appointment with the recurrent miscarriage consultant after my 12 week scan went well to check in and she upped it to 150mg, mainly because she felt that amount was more useful anyway for preventing preclampsia. So I'm taking that up to 36 weeks 🤞and I'm currently 30 weeks.

Still wary of jinxing things and maybe it was just luck this time, but if I was to do it again I would probably take the 75mg aspirin from the start again