34 Weeks Pregnant - low platelets again!
My Pregnancy 2025 Alison Marshall My Pregnancy 2025 Alison Marshall

34 Weeks Pregnant - low platelets again!

Last week’s blood tests show my platelets have dropped off a bit again, which for Australian standards has technically put me back in the range of gestational thrombocytopaenia (very borderline still). Platelets dropping during pregnancy is physiologically normal for some women, and certainly seems to be my norm, since I know it happened with my first pregnancy too.

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29 Weeks Pregnant - is my baby too big to be born vaginally?
My Pregnancy 2025 Alison Marshall My Pregnancy 2025 Alison Marshall

29 Weeks Pregnant - is my baby too big to be born vaginally?

When I had my morphology ultrasound around 21 weeks, the sonographer commented that baby was measuring in the 96th percentile, and that my provider would probably want to schedule growth scans during third trimester to make sure baby wasn't getting too big. I just smiled and thanked her, but I knew that we would not be planning any growth scans based purely on this comment...

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24 Weeks Pregnant - finding balance and rhythms in life
My Pregnancy 2025 Alison Marshall My Pregnancy 2025 Alison Marshall

24 Weeks Pregnant - finding balance and rhythms in life

It’s been a quiet week this week, just normal busy daily life with my husband and two little girls. There’s nothing much particularly coming up for me around pregnancy right now, though I am feeling baby move regularly and continuing with my near-daily practice of Spinning Babies exercises, breathing and “horse lips” exercises, and listening to positive birth affirmations and relaxation/visualisation audios. I didn’t have enough of these quiet weeks in my last pregnancy, so I am really enjoying it!

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