28 Weeks Pregnant - my diagnosis of gestational thrombocytopaenia and iron deficiency

If you’re asking “Thrombo...umm, what even is that??”, that’s a perfectly valid question! It’s a fancy name for “low platelets”, and no, I wasn’t familiar with the term before either! It’s a relatively common condition in pregnancy, although the diagnosis is quite subjective. In Australia, the accepted “healthy minimum” level of platelets shows up as 150 on your blood test results, so anything below that is diagnosed as thrombocytopaenia. In Italy, where I had my first baby, they calculate the minimum as 130, so the level of 145 on my latest blood test results wouldn’t have even raised an eyebrow there.