by angieb » Thu Feb 23, 2012 04:33 am
I was on lovenox and stopped taking it a few weeks prior to delivering. Once you get close to delivery, often doctors generally switch people to heparin (actually lovenox is a type of low molecular weight heparin, but *actual* heparin shots are twice a day because they do not stay in the system as long.) That is in case you have to deliver suddenly, generally they don't have to wait as long with heparin. Most doctors (and anesthesiologists), I think, will not let you have an epidural if you've had lovenox within x-hours, so in that case you'd either have to have general anesthesia with a c-section or have a vaginal birth without an epidural. But usually they try to plan it out that it is not an issue. I had no problems with lovenox and delivering.
I was on lovenox and stopped taking it a few weeks prior to delivering. Once you get close to delivery, often doctors generally switch people to heparin (actually lovenox is a type of low molecular weight heparin, but *actual* heparin shots are twice a day because they do not stay in the system as long.) That is in case you have to deliver suddenly, generally they don't have to wait as long with heparin. Most doctors (and anesthesiologists), I think, will not let you have an epidural if you've had lovenox within x-hours, so in that case you'd either have to have general anesthesia with a c-section or have a vaginal birth without an epidural. But usually they try to plan it out that it is not an issue. I had no problems with lovenox and delivering.
