baby aspirin? Do you take it?

iceandsnowflakes29 · March 2016

I've had 2 separate OBs (seen during 2 separate losses) tell me to take baby aspirin. The first time it was mentioned I was too upset to ask questions about it and the second dr that mentioned it blazed through a very technical explanation of the reasoning behind it ( he lost me after saying something about my body attacking the placenta or something?)

Anyway, now that the fog from loss has started to clear, I was curious if anyone has a dummies version of the theory behind it and does anyone currently take it?

TIA

MWoodside · March 2016

Do you have MTHFR mutation or another clotting issue?

I take it daily bc I have MTHFR mutation (homozygous 677), so I'll take it forever even when not ttc.

iceandsnowflakes29 · March 2016

Not that I'm aware of. That is another reason why I'm asking. I felt like that advice was just sort of thrown at me willy nilly with the it-can't- hurt- mentality.

MWoodside · March 2016

-TW, other pregnancies mentioned-

I'm confused how it would have anything to do with your body attacking the placenta. It's usually to help prevent clots. I just started taking it with my last pregnancy after I got my bfp bc I got my MTHFR results the same week. I never took it with my 3 prior pregnancies (one of which was a loss).

iceandsnowflakes29 · March 2016

Yeah that confused me too. But, I swear that is what he said. I wonder if he was talking out of his butt? This was just an OB, not a RE.

So it is to prevent clots?

MWoodside · March 2016

In my case, my hematologist and OB recommended I take it daily to keep my blood just a little bit thinner, which can help prevent clots. We all agreed it can't hurt anything at this point, whether I am pregnant or not.

AL_TwinCities · April 2016

@iceandsnowflakes29 I started taking baby aspirin daily a month or two before getting pregnant. It was recommended in a book I read called Making Babies, where they talked about a study that showed that women taking daily baby aspirin had thicker uterine linings due to increased blood flow. So I take it to help me get pregnant, but I believe the main reason to take it while pregnant is to prevent clotting.

iceandsnowflakes29 · April 2016

Okay, thanks for the input @MWoodside and @AL_TwinCities. I did google this but, I value your input more than Dr. Google

littlemagen&ben · April 2016

I have the MTHFR c667 mutation with only one copy and I have to be on a daily asprin regime while TTC and then lovenox shots everyday as soon as I am pregnant. Mthfr is rather common so it wouldn't hurt to get tested for it, however many doctors aren't familiar with it. My OB is a specialist with mthfr and has done group studies with pregnant women. As for why they say baby asprin daily it all has to do with your blood getting to thick.

LCRbelle · April 2016

I have antiphospholipid syndrome which makes me prone to miscarriage and blood clots. (Thick and sticky blood). I have been taking baby aspirin daily for two months. However, I am currently going through another miscarriage so it obviously wasn't enough. I go to a hemetology specialist tomorrow and will go from there. I have heard mixed reviews on if baby aspirin should be taken if there are no known blood issues. If there are none that you know of, I would specifically ask the doctor why they went you to take it and don't let them gloss over it. I know in the past I've just wanted a baby so badly I'd do anything I read about on the internet that might help, and I have wound up screwing up my body and making things harder. I am very cautious now and only do what my doctor says is ok. I had extensive testing before my doctor told me to take the baby aspirin!

MWoodside · April 2016

I was thinking about this more, specifically @AL_TwinCities comment about the thicker lining. My period has been AWFUL since my last loss. I hadn't been able to connect why, and now I'm wondering if it's the baby aspirin b/c I started taking it right after my BFP (coincidentally when I found out about my MTHFR mutation). I am thinking it has to be the baby aspirin b/c nothing else has changed other than aging in general obviously. Has anyone else who takes baby aspirin noticed a shift in the heaviness of their cycles? I feel like I bleed way more, have awful cramps and just generally a sucky time, especially during the first 2 days.

MWoodside · April 2016

*TW- children mentioned*

@Littlemagen&ben, out of curiosity, is Lovenox standard protocol for all MTHFR patients your Dr treats? Or your specific mutation? No one will Rx me Lovenox since I've had 2 children before I knew about my mutation.

silentP · April 2016

@mwoodside just butting in to say that my periods have been super heavy and awful the first couple of days since my losses. I do not take baby aspirin. I have my yearly exam next month, so I plan to ask my doctor about it then, but I am guessing he will just tell me it's from the losses. The odd thing is it started about the third cycle post loss and has stayed consistently bad. Fun, fun.

LCRbelle · April 2016

Mine hasn't been heavier since taking baby aspirin. It's only been two months though and one month was a loss so that was an off month anyway.

BornReady · April 2016

As an interesting note to the aspirin question... I had to sign a 6 page consent/contract yesterday with my RE. On the front page was a list of things that I should not do and one was that I would not take aspirin or aspirin like medications during treatment unless specifically directed by my doctor. I don't take it regularly so I didn't ask about it, but thought it was curious after the fact. Maybe it is in the chance I get pregnant, but who knows.

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