Natural labour and on blood thinners
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So, I haven’t had labour yet but I am on blood thinning medication for life and had my consultant meeting 3 weeks ago and went to the birthing centre this week to do my birth plan. I was told to start taking my injection in the morning and if there is any indication I may go into labour that day, then I would need to not take my injection. They will re start my injections 4-6 hours after birth. I haven’t been told that they will intervene and they have basically said I can give birth. My care plan also doesn’t suggest that there would be any intervention if birth doesn’t progress within 24 hours You can’t have an epidural until you have had 12 hours off your medication. They advised me to have the hormone injection to help with the third stage of labour and that I may also be given another drug through a drip over 4 hours to help reduce my bleeding. I was also told they would want to do everything to avoid interventions that could cause a higher risk of clotting I.e c sections
Following because I'm also wondering the same thing ! X