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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
I have never been so scared in my entire life. It was March 1999 and I went in for my normal weekly ob appointment. These were weekly because after two late miscarriages due to PROM, it was finally determined that I have incompetent cervix and had a cerclage put in at 15 weeks. I was not scheduled for an ultrasound on this particular day, so the doctor spent a little more time with me. I complained of some swelling and minor headaches, but nothing else. The doctor, being a little concern...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
I woke up on Tuesday morning, May 23 around 6 am with cramps. I was 36 weeks. I thought maybe this was braxton hicks? (This was our first baby so I was unsure.) I called my ob-gyn who was on call and she told me if the cramps continued and/or got stronger to call and come in when they opened. Since I did not have any leaking of fluid or blood she thought it was possibly braxton hicks as well. At 10:30am we went to the doctor's office. My blood pressure and the baby's heartbeat were fine. I was ...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
In 1997, while pregnant with my second child, I experienced heavy bleeding when I was about 32 weeks pregnant. When I went to the hospital, I was told that I had high blood pressure and was kept overnight for observation. However, I was released the next morning because my blood pressure had returned to normal and the bleeding had ceased. Several weeks later, I began experiencing abdominal pain and headaches. At first, I thought that these were normal symptoms of pregnancy and that there was no ...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
I had preeclampsia in one form or another three times. The first time, I was 23, single and broke. I didn't know what was wrong, just that I needed to stay in bed, on my left side, for six weeks. When the baby was born, I was all too happy to be on my feet and rid of preeclampsia. Six years later, married and working, I had a healthy, normal second pregnancy. All the books on pregnancy said preeclampsia mostly occurs in first pregnancies, and since I didn't have it in the second, I knew ...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
Hi. My name is Mrs. Jennifer Neal and I live in southeastern North Carolina. I have had not one, but three toxemic pregnancies. My first pregnancy, I went from 89 lbs. to 172 lbs. I am 5' 3" tall. I was 23 when she was born. The toxemia showed up two weeks before my daughter, Britny, was born. She weighed 6 lbs. 12 1/2 oz. I lost her fraternal twin early in the pregnancy. She didn't breathe for around 3 1/2 minutes after her birth due to the position she descended in the birth canal. Luckily, sh...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
I was a 30 year old, average size woman pregnant with my first child, and I was having a perfectly normal pregnancy or so I thought. At my seventh month visit, my doctor was a little concerned with my blood pressure. It seemed to be a little elevated for me. My doctor told me he was concerned about preeclampsia. He asked me to get bed rest several times a day and be followed up weekly. The next week my blood pressure was back to normal and I didn't have any protein in my urine. M...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
I knew of the major signs and symptoms of pre-eclampsia before becoming pregnant. I had told my OB about my grandmother having severe pre-eclampsia with her third pregnancy. I did not know until after experiencing pre-eclampsia myself that several women on my husband's side of the family had the condition during their pregnancies (aunt, sister and grandmother). The first trimester i had the usual nausea and vomiting , which subsided. I had been gaining weight fast right from the beginnin...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
My daughter, Emily Kathryn, was stillborn at 31 weeks because my liver ruptured. We now believe the cause of the rupture to be HELLP Syndrome, a severe form of pre-eclampsia. My story began August 21st, 2000. I was having severe pain in my upper back, straight through to the front of my chest. I was about 30 weeks along. I also had nausea and other flu-like symptoms. Everything got progressively worse as the week went on. I went to the doctor's office on the 23rd and gave a urine sample,...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by Neysa
Hello! I thought I'd share my story with you. I developed preeclampsia during my second pregnancy. The first resulted in a miscarriage around week 7, although as the foetus died in the womb, I didn't realise I had miscarried until after two more weeks. This was autumn 1998. Afterwards, we decided to wait before trying again. The first pregnancy hadn't been planned and it was not a very suitable time. January 200o we decided to have another go, and after a month or two, I got pregnant. ...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
My doctor noticed my blood pressure was rising. Up to 128/76 from 110/65 and asked me about bedrest at 32 weeks. I pleaded with her to let me start my new substituting job, I was about to graduate and needed the money and the job contacts. She said o.k. to level 3 bedrest as long as I just sat there and came back the next week with a list of blood pressures taken daily. When I came in the next week it was up to 136/86. I had one time where my feet swelled, but it went away when I took off the si...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by Jasoda
I come from a long line of child-bearing mothers, large families and healthy babies. Never for a minute did I think that anything would be wrong with being pregnant and having my own... Beginning in July of 1999, here's my story. My husband and I had been married for 5 years and ready to start our family. It took us only 6 months to be pregnant - I remember keeping close track of cycles and dates - I went to my OB already knowing conception and delivery dates - I was due March 20. I was ...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
My name is Heather, I am 24 years old. My, husband and I have been married now for almost 2 years. We have actually been a couple for 9 years. We met in highschool and have been inseperable ever since. During those years we had our share of ups and downs but nothing could have prepared us for what we went through this past year. We were married on May 15, 1999. By October we were pregnant. We were so happy! My husband wanted to be involved in the whole process so we went together to ever...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by Gina
May 27th 2001 my doctor gave me the option to come in on a Sunday morning and be induced because I had gone past my due date (My first child at 28 years old). I joked with my husband on the way to the doctor that we should just turn around and go eat breakfast instead of having the baby that day. For about 10 days before, I had experiences violent stomach pain. I called the doctors office every day. The nurses would tell me to take Tylenol, that I was just "real" pregnant, and being a pe...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by Susana
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by Erica
My husband and I went in for my 37th week checkup when I was told that I had preeclampsia and that I would be delivering some time within the next day. My blood pressure which had been 110/70 for my whole pregnancy had skyrocketed, there was suddenly protein in my urine, and the swelling in my feet and hands had also taken over my face (I gained six pounds my last week of pregnancy- mostly water). Terrified, I went to my hospital's birthing center to be induced. I was given pitocin to st...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
Hi Everyone, I am looking for a place to share my story and maybe get some feedback and some advice. I had a baby girl 4 years ago and she is healthy and happy today. But my road to get there was not an easy one. I found out I was pregnant on Super Bowl Sunday in 1997. It was the happiest time and then it went down hill. During my third month being pregnant I got a call from my doctor and was told that I should think about abortion cause my baby tested very high for spina bifida....
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
After losing my first daughter to e.coli at 2-/2, I was desperate to become a mother again. I tried IVF, putting in three embryo's because I was told that my chances were not good (less than 10%) To everyone's surprise, I became pregnant with triplets. I am over 40, in good health, except that I had been depressed and unable to function well since the death of my daughter, and worried that improper nutrition and stress over the wrongful death lawsuit might affect the babies. At 2...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
April 25, 2002 - A Recent Update from Eleni Update:My next pregnancy was co-managed by a superb perinatologist and me. I count myself part of the team, because I realized that my ignorance and a health care system that didn't respect the devastating power of preeclampsia are largely to blame for my daughter's death. In August 1999, our son, Jordan, was born early and small, and spent almost two weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, but he and I survived this second bout of p...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by
Hi, I am an MBBS, DA (diploma in anaesthesiology) and during my internship I became very interested in preeclampsia-eclampsia. The maternity hospital where I worked had very meager resources and manpower. Many women used to die because of inadequate care. I continued to work at the same hospital after my internship as a senior house surgeon for two years. The hospital had a protocol to give magnesium sulfate to all women with severe preeclampsia-eclampsia...this was in 1992-94. Later I w...
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Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2002 by April
Brian Anthony Metler 1 lb, 2 oz, 11 in Born Jan 1, 2002, at 22 weeks gestation due to severe PE/HELLP. Died after 32 minutes due to respiratory failure caused by extreme prematurity. My pregnancy with Brian had been completely uneventful until Christmas, 2001. While I'd had the typical morning sickness in the first trimester, after about 16 weeks, everything had gone well. Because of a severe genetic condition in the family, we had wanted genetic counseling and testing performed, and whe...
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