Laura Worsley always wanted to be a mother but life has not made it easy for her, and due to several problems she has had to go through the hard experience of living 13 abortions, two of them occurred in weeks 17 and 20 of gestation.
However, this British woman and her partner made the decision not to give up, and after many years of suffering and various medical treatments, they have managed to fulfill their dream and are now parents of a girl.
Laura wanted to share her hard story, with the aim of encourage other women who are going through a similar situation not to lose hope, and to "keep trying hard even though everything seems impossible".
Antiophospholipid syndrome and Chronic histiocytic intervillositis
Laura became pregnant for the first time in 2008 but the joy lasted a short time, because a few weeks later she suffered a miscarriage. To this first gestational loss three more happened in the next two years, so the doctors decided to investigate what was happening.
His case was taken by a team of researchers from the Biomedical Research Unit of the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW), and there they discovered that Laura suffered from the antiphospholipid syndrome, also known as "thick blood syndrome". This condition causes the immune system to generate antibodies that make the blood more prone to clotting, causing preeclampsia, premature delivery, abortions and other very serious health complications for the mother.
In Babies and more After four years, seven attempts, three abortions and 1,616 injections, life broke throughWith an anticoagulant treatment Laura was able to become pregnant again, although the pregnancy did not come forward on the following occasions. The woman he even lost two of his babies in weeks 17 and 20, being plunged into the deepest despair.
Doctors analyzed the placenta of one of these pregnancies and found a second problem: Chronic histiocytic intervillositis, a rare disease and of possible immunological origin, which causes the mother's body rejects pregnancy.
The doctors decided to give him a steroid-based treatment to strengthen the lining of his womb, and next to the anticoagulant medication Laura conceived again for the 14th time ... And this time, the pregnancy did get ahead!
Ivy, her rainbow baby, was born in September last year by emergency caesarean section and at 30 weeks gestation. It weighed a little more than half a kilo, but his overwhelming force helped him get ahead, and after 11 weeks in neonatal care he was discharged.
Now, Ivy is nine months old and his mother confesses that, after all that he has lived, he still does not believe he has a daughter. He owes everything to the medical team that treated her and helped her face the obstacles that appeared, and that's why she wanted to share her story of struggle and overcoming.
"Throughout my story I want to give others the hope and strength to continue fighting, even when things seem impossible. For many years I have lived with the only hope of becoming a mother someday. I have lost many years of my life, and the idea of not being able to have a baby tormented me. There came a time when I no longer knew if it was worth it to keep trying, but we did (...) Now I look at her and I think that miracles exist "- declares this woman to the newspaper New York Post.
Repeated abortions: when the dream of being a mother moves away
Repeated abortions are recurring gestational losses that affect five percent of women of childbearing age, being one of the causes of infertility. The reasons why they occur can be very varied, so it is important to perform the relevant medical tests that determine what is happening and what treatment to follow to avoid it.
The spontaneous abortion supposes a hard emotional blow for the couple, but in the case of the recurrent abortions the pain is increased even more if possible, because the hopes and the illusion are renewed again and again with each new pregnancy, but also they do it sadness, anger and fear with each new loss.
In Babies and more Getting pregnant again after a gestational loss: how to manage fearsAccording to experts, when the woman has already suffered a miscarriage, the chances of returning to the same are around 15 percent, a percentage that increases to 25 or 30 percent if two or more abortions have already been done. previous, or even up to 60 percent in cases of women over 40 years.
Around 40-50 percent of the time a cause is not found that justifies repeated abortions, but at other times it does seem to exist, and according to studies it could be due to genetic abnormalities, uterine malformations, thrombophilias, endocrine or immunological causes .
Once the cause has been determined, and depending on the type and severity of the cause, it may be necessary put yourself in the hands of a multidisciplinary team (endocrine, gynecologist, hematologist, andrologist, psychologist ...) who will recommend the best treatment to follow in each case.
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