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Knottie1448942175
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Fetal Growth Restriction
Knottie1448942175
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Hi! I'm hoping to hear some positive stories as I've had enough sh*t in my life. I lost my first son at 25 weeks in 2019 due to HELLP syndrome and being unaware of having antiphospholipid syndrome. I lost my daughter in 2020 at 23 weeks due to a number of issues, chromosomal abnormalities, growth restriction, congenital heart failure and PPROM, testing revealed it was either a bad egg or sperm and way beyond our control of doing anything. In 2021 we had a baby boy that will be three in December and doing wonderfully... I'm pregnant with number four and it's not going well. She's been small but yesterday I had an appointment that was awful. We received a fetal growth restriction diagnosis, I'm 22w6d and she's around 21w2days, in the 3rd percentile. The pressure in the umbilical cord is high as well. My doctor feels this is coming from the antiphospholipid syndrome even though I'm on lovenox, aspirin and blood pressure medication. I'm going back in two weeks and PRAYING that she will have some growth as a very early delivery is likely, my doctor is thinking 28 weeks. I want to crawl in a hole and disappear. I'm so heartbroken and devastated, I can't lose a third child, I barely made it through the first two with medication and therapy. I'm so depressed.
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