María Castro is living one of the happiest moments of her life. She is loaded with professional projects and enjoying success with her roles in productions such as The Promise or The Game of Keys; The actress from Vigo has another reason to be happy, this time in her personal life, since she is expecting what will be her third child.
Just a few days ago she announced the news through her Instagram account, happy to add another member to the family she has created with her husband, José Manuel Villanueva, with whom she has been happily together for more than a decade and with whom she already shares two girls, Maia (7) and Olivia (3). Always natural, she also wanted to share some details about this new pregnancy, such as the medication she has started taking, due to an illness that she has suffered since she was 21 years old.
"Normalizing, because that's what comes out and touches me," the actress begins to explain, showing her followers how her abdomen has some bruises. The Galician confesses that she injects heparin every morning, because when she was 21 years old, she was diagnosed with a disease caused by a genetic mutation that makes her blood more clotted than normal, which can cause thrombosis, something very dangerous. even more so in risk states, such as pregnancy, which can cause spontaneous abortions.
"Since I'm not going to be able to avoid showing my belly, you're going to see a series of bruises appear on the sides that I don't want to cover, because I think it's very important to normalize it," explains the actress, showing some small bruises on the left side of her his abdomen. "I inject heparin throughout the entire process of pregnancy and breastfeeding, because fortunately at the age of 21 I was discovered to have a thrombosis in my leg."
"There is no silver lining, and since then I know that if at any time I get pregnant, as is the case in this case, I have to get the injection. That's how I did it with all the pregnancies. It's a bit cumbersome, yes; I have a choice , no. So I, like everything in life, get a feeling of joy and think that they are vitamins for the baby - which is not true - and that's it, without further ado," he says.
With her words, the actress wants to normalize this type of situation among those women with disorders or inability to have a natural and simple pregnancy. "It makes me very sad that many women are left without being mothers for this reason," she continues, "or that even if they later succeed, they go through the process of losing one, or two... Because each loss is a mourning, and it is a very horrible mourning, which is usually passed in silence".
The one from Vigo continues to explain the situation and encourage women to not only have the help and opinion of their gynecologists, but also other medical specialists such as hematologists and immunologists, who can help make their dream of becoming mothers come true. "Not everything is the result of bad luck, sometimes whether we succeed or not can be the result of science."
