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I was worried at first then found out how common it can be, you will be on asprin to ensure your blood flows through your placenta as it should. I had to have my baby early at 36 weeks as baby was measuring small and my placenta began to fail. I should mention though that my first baby was only 6pound full term, and during this pregnancy I had SVT which caused incredibly high heart rate and palpitations (not related to low papp a) so we decided to have a c section instead of the induction they recommended. Hope this helps, try not to worry too much, as i say it's more common than you think and tbh I probably had it with my first 4 years ago but they never used to test for that, and he went full term, with a beautiful water birth x
Had it, took aspirin, had zero problems. Baby was 50th centile. Placenta was fine when they checked it out after birth.
I had it. Took aspirin as advised. No problems at all and had an average weight baby girl and normal placenta
Had low Papp-a so took asprin 150mg from 12 weeks till baby was born. My baby measured small (5-10th%) and had scans quite often to keep an eye but all my bloods and the placenta were fine. Booked for induction at 39 weeks. Went into labour after a sweep at 38+5. Thought baby would be born really small but he was 6lb9oz so perfectly fine especially as he was bit early. He is 5 weeks now and up on 20th% perfectly healthy. My first son was 7lb4oz and I was 40+4 with his and he is still small but healthy so I think I just have small babies and not sure how much Papp-a had to do with it. I have two other friends with it who had healthy babies as well.
If you have just received a letter letting you know, please call the phone number on it and ask them to talk you through it because that’s what I did and honestly the midwife made me feel so much better
I had low Papp-a it didn’t impact my daughters growth at all and I didn’t have to take asprin. All that was different was the additional growth scans (which i quite liked as i got to see little one more)
I had low Papp-a and no one did say anything that would impact in my baby growth. I had growth scans for another reason (fibroid growing outside of the womb) and baby was growing super fine until last 4 months when she stopped growing at the same speed. She was born 37+6 with a weight of 6.3lb (2.9kg) she ended being a little small but nothing alarming tbh. Now she's 5.3kg at 12w. Her dad is quite tall around 192cm and I'm 165cm so we were expecting a little bit bigger baby. However, in baby groups I've seen babies of 6 and 7mths being to much bigger than her so, I'm not ultra worried. Was it the Papp-a? I don't know? No one knew why she stop growing at the same speed. She dropped from percentil 92, to 75, to 54 and the latest was 40 something. I didn't had follow up consultation with doctors (hospital fault) and i' ve never would know what happened. Btw, she was born vaginal and she broke waters, it was nothing wrong at all with her. I hope my case helps somehow.
I was told I had low Papp-A, told we could have poor growth ect. Took aspiring during pregnancy. After 34weeks baby started measuring huge and they induced me at 39weeks he was born 8.2lb 😅😅😅
Hey Emmy, as long as everything else is OK try to be positive.... With my baby I told myself "The smaller the "easy" tu push her out.." 😉😁
Hi Emmy, I had Low Papp-a and it didn’t impact growth, they were happy with each growth scan, and I had 6.1lb baby girl last week, so a little on the small side but I’m small myself! 🥰 You should be offered some regular growth scans to see how baby is growing. I was given aspirin to take everyday. I did suffer from high blood pressure, specifically from 37 weeks but this wasn’t specifically linked to Low Papp-a and they kept super close eye on and was given medication x