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Wednesday 2 January 2013

Mother Who Suffered Five Miscarriages In Five Years Finally Has Child After Taking A Daily Aspirin.

                                                   Dawn Paddock, pictured with her new daughter Isobel, suffered five miscarriages before becoming pregnant after taking a daily aspirin

Dawn Paddock, of Liverpool, (pictured with new baby Isobel) stumbled across the cure to a blood clotting condition she was diagnosed with after suffering five miscarriages. The 33-year-old suffered two miscarriages before the birth of her first child Shay with her husband Christian. After suffering a further three while trying for their second baby, she remembered she had taken a daily aspirin during the first pregnancy. She was then diagnosed with a blood clotting condition, which she wants to raise awareness of.


Doctors initially carried out a series of tests on the 33-year-old but were unable to find why she could not reach full term, before she took a colleague's advice about taking aspirin and gave birth to her first child, son Shay two years ago.
She then went through a further three miscarriages trying for a second child, before she remembered the daily tablet she had taken during her first pregnancy.

And to her surprise, doctors told her she had stumbled across the answer to her problems, as they diagnosed her with a blood clotting condition called antiphospholipid syndrome.
The breakthrough meant Mrs Paddock and husband Christian, 34, were finally able to make it to full term with a second child, Isobel, thanks to the over-the-counter painkiller.
The happy mother-of-two, who now works as a school nurse, said: 'I just kept thinking why - I am not a smoker and I did not drink so I could not understand why I kept having miscarriages.


Doctors warn against self-diagnosing and taking aspirin during pregnancy.
Mrs Paddock has now called for all women with a history of miscarraige to have tests for antiphospholipid syndrome, also known as Hughes syndrome or sticky blood.
Following her fifth miscarriage Mrs Paddock underwent several tests as doctors desperately tried to find out what was causing her to miscarry.
She was sent to Liverpool Women's Hospital where she was diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome - a blood clotting disorder which can result in miscarriage or stillbirth.
Condition: Mrs Paddock was diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome after she gave birth to Shay, pictured, and her new daughter Isobel
Four days after her diagnosis Dawn found out she was pregnant again.
Doctors put her on blood thinning drug Heparin and she also took an aspirin every day as she had also done with Shay.
In June this year Isobel was born five weeks prematurely, but healthily.
She fears thousands of other women could be suffering the same pain as her when they already have the cure sat in their bathroom cupboard.
She said: 'I told all the doctors I was taking the aspirin and they said it would not do any harm.
'I was going to stop taking it after the 12 week scan, but I was too scared to stop.
'Later the doctor said that Shay's birth was down to the aspirin.
'We were quite tearful when we got the test results back because the doctor said if I had stopped taking the aspirin I would never have given birth to Shay and because it was such a relief to find out we had been doing the right things.
'Just before I fell pregnant with Isobel it was getting to the point where we would have had to give up hope, because it was all getting too painful.
'I worked with people who had miscarriages and I had never heard of antiphospholipid syndrome, which shows how rare it is.
'People need to be more aware of this condition. A £35 blood test could end the agony of unexplained recurrent miscarriage.
'When I am out with the double pushchair people always say "you are lucky to have one of each", but I think if only they knew what we had been through to get them.'



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