This week we have a very special guest, one of The Modern Doula's closest friends, Ania Mineo, talking about her own personal experience of having two out of her three births with a rare blood disorder and one of her babies be in the special care unit for 6 weeks post birth.
Ania opens up about all of her pregnancy experiences from miscarrying, the emotional rollercoaster you go on after a miscarriage, the spiral of questions you ask yourself if you could have prevented it from occurring, her first birth being a completely normal birth to her next two births being both high risk.
It wasn't until the 7 week mark of her second pregnancy that Ania found out there was something not quite right, anti E blood disorder where her blood had built antibodies that thought the baby's blood was harmful. It was most likely from a pass of blood in her first pregnancy that then caused her blood to build a defence mechanism. It wasn't until her third birth where this rare condition, haemolytic disease of the newborn, became quite serious and potentially fatal for her third born.
Ania candidly speaks having a child in NICU, the rare blood condition and the tools that helped her through.
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