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Conference moira::parenting

Title:	Parenting
Notice:	Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3
Moderator:	GEMEVN::FAIMANY

Created:	Thu Apr 09 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1292
Total number of notes:	34837

1188.0. "Low Blood Platelets?" by SUBSYS::ARMSTRONG (sort of cast in concrete) Wed Sep 11 1996 16:20

    My b-i-l's wife is 4.5 mo's pregnant and in the hospital with low
    platelets.  Apparently, they're suppose to be 150,000 - 300,000 and
    hers have dropped: last week they were down to 1,000 and this week back
    up to 7,000.  She had this with her first pregnancy, but only dropped
    to 99,000.  (Baby was born w/low platelets and they had to wait 2 weeks
    to circumsize him). 
    
    What causes this and what can be done to fix it?  I'm not sure what
    they were doing for her last week (was on an IV for a few days) but
    whatever it was, it wasn't working, so they're changing tactics.  I
    haven't talked to her in a few days, but was hoping someone here knew
    something about it.
    
    Thanks,
    ~beth

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1188.1	HLLLP?	STAR::LEWIS		`Wed Sep 11 1996 17:15`	16
	When I was pregnant with my first son, I attended a pregnancy exercise class. The woman who sat next to me was missing one night (after being there two nights before). The teacher said she had given birth the day before -- at 32 weeks. She had had a headache, but had a regularly scheduled ob visit the next day anyway. Her blood pressure was way up so they admitted her. Routine blood tests had her platelet count at 25. They rushed her to the nearest hospital with a neo-natal unit and c-sectioned the baby. The called it HLLLP -- I think. Something about the pregnancy doing something to the platelets. For what it's worth, that baby was fine. So were her next two, although they were also born early (but closer to 36 weeks). You might ask in the MEDICAL notesfile - you could probably get really specific info there. Sue
1188.2		ASABET::DENARO		`Thu Sep 12 1996 12:14`	22
	hi, I am in the middle of my seventh month of pregnancy...and I also have low platlets caused by pregnancy. My platlet count is not as low as your B.I.L's wife but mine have gotten to some pretty low points. Does she see a hematologist? I was sent right away to a hematologist, and have been seeing him every three weeks for my whole pregnancy. The only explanation I have gotten from the doctors is that is rare but... that something like 1 in 2,000 woman develope low platelets when they are pregnant and they should return back to normal after delivery other than that i have gotten no explanation as to why this is happening. I had never heard of platlets before i got pregnant and i was so scared at first, I thought I really had something terrible wrong with me. It is really scarey. You had said that the baby was born with low platelets, (her first baby) and that every thing was okay. My child is gonna have to be tested for that as well. Do you have any idea if that is common for the mother to pass it to the baby? I am really interested in this because i have never heard of anyone else having low platelets caused by pregnancy, and nobody i know has ever heard of it either. I hope everything is okay with your B.I.L's wife and her baby. -Wendy
1188.3		SUBSYS::ARMSTRONG	sort of cast in concrete	`Fri Sep 13 1996 11:09`	18