Celebrity Mum Claire Sweeney Says Aspirin Stopped Her From Having A Third Miscarriage

Actress Claire Sweeney has confessed that she thinks aspirin helped her avoid a third miscarriage.

The formed Brookside star says that after experiencing two miscarriages, a doctor prescribed her with two junior aspirin a day and shortly after she discovered she was expecting a baby.

“I’d been pregnant twice before in the previous 18 months but had miscarried twice,” the actress told The Mirror.

“The first time I fell pregnant with my boyfriend Daniel Reilly’s baby in early 2013 it was a shock to both of us. It was a lovely shock though and something we’d just started to get used to when we went for our first scan at about nine weeks.”

Sadly, the doctor wasn’t able to find a heartbeat and Claire had to have a dilatation and curettage (D&C) to remove the tissue from the lining of her womb.

But she thinks taking aspirin daily helped her carry her son, Jaxon, to term.

“Their anti-clotting qualities might be the thing that saved me from miscarrying again,” Claire told The Mirror.

Some doctors prescribe a low dose of a blood thinning medicine such as aspirin to women who, like Claire, are prone to recurrent miscarriages, possibly caused by blood clots.

But before Claire’s baby was born last year, she had a few more pregnancy side effects to contend with.

After experiencing some bleeding, Claire’s doctors diagnosed her with placenta previa, “where the placenta drops down above the cervix and any impact or too much movement can make it bleed,” the actress says.

“They said if the placenta didn’t move back up, I’d need a caesarean section for the birth and they warned that during the second half of the pregnancy if I started to bleed, it could be highly dangerous for me and for the baby.”

Claire took it easy for the remainder of her pregnancy, which was nessecary as she also experienced “appalling” headaches and “very itchy skin.”

Like many mums-to-be, Claire took plenty of vitamins and supplements including folic acid, vitamin D and calcium and made sure she “ate very well, including lots of green veggies, lean meat and fish.”

At around six months pregnant, Claire was also diagnosed with symphysis pubic dysfunction (SPD), a condition that makes the pelvic joins become inflamed and made walking “excruciatingly painful” for the mum of one.

But despite it all, Claire maintains that she “loved being pregnant.”

If you’ve been affected by a miscarriage, get in touch with the Miscarriage Association for all of the information and support you need.

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