If you suffer from anemia, treatment is important to you and your baby. If you are anemic, you won't feel well during pregnancy. You'll tire easily. You may experience dizziness. There is a fine balance in your body between the production of blood cells that carry oxygen to the rest of your body and destruction of these cells.
Anemia is the condition in which the number of red blood cells is low.
If you are anemic, you have an inadequate number of red blood cells. During pregnancy, the number of red blood cells in your bloodstream increases. Your doctor keeps track of these changes in your blood with a hematocrit reading. Your hematocrit is a measure of the percentage of the blood that is red blood cells. Your hemoglobin level is also tested.