Charlotte Perrelli has had to undergo several miscarriages during her life. When she was pregnant with the son Alvin in week 18 it turned out that she was one of 100,000 in Sweden who had vasa praevia.
– In week 34, I moved into the hospital and was completely connected with tubes and everything in case something happened, she now tells The evening paper.
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Today, Charlotte lives with her husband Anders Jensen and next year the couple have been married for ten years. The relationship began with Anders writing her a message on Facebook – and it was a coincidence that she replied.
– I was not at all “in the mood” to meet a new person, Charlotte has previously told in the program Stjärnorna på slotlotet.
The couple is today happy, but life together has not always been easy. They have had to go through many miscarriages over the years. When she was pregnant with her youngest son, she learned that she had vasa praevia, which means “present placenta.” This means that the fertilized egg grows firmly deep in the uterus.
– I don’t understand how I managed it and I don’t even remember all the times I miscarried, she tells the newspaper.
In the end, the couple barely talked about the miscarriages and Charlotte says that it felt like she was constantly pregnant. When she then became pregnant with her son Alvin, she concluded that it would not end well because many previous pregnancies had ended in miscarriage.
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“Mentally Cracked”
It was a difficult period for Charlotte and husband Anders, who started to lose his beard because he was so stressed. At the time, she read about a person in the US who had applied cortisone to lower the immune system in vasa praevia, so that the body would not reject the fetus.
Charlotte was given several medications that she read would be good, but also cortisone. She took samples all the time and was also given a nutritional drip.
– When I was in week 18, it also turned out that I was one of 100,000 in Sweden who had vasa praevia. It meant that a lot of blood vessels were in front of the mouth of the uterus. If the pressure had become too great, if I had jumped or carried something heavy, Alvin’s oxygen would have been cut off and he would have died in three minutes, Charlotte tells the newspaper.
She also received a message from a girl who had lost a child to vasa praevia, who wrote “if you haven’t got the point, it really is three minutes. Wherever you are, you will never make it and he will die”.
– Then I was mentally broken and in week 34 I moved into the hospital and was completely connected with tubes and everything in case something happened. It’s the best thing I’ve done and in week 35 he was picked out.
The couple today have two healthy children together.