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Posted On Friday, January 08, 2010 by Jamie
I want to tell my story so that I can give other women hope. I had preeclampsia while pregnant with my child. It was a complete shock. I had never heard of it, never seen it, and never knew of anyone who had a complicated pregnancy which resulted in extremely premature birth. I was first diagnosed with preeclampsia at 29 weeks. I was diagnosed, sent to the nearest hospital which was able to facilitate my needs (and was also 1 1/2 hrs. from home), and delivered ...
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Posted On Friday, January 08, 2010 by Jayne
At 33 years of age with my first pregnancy I had pre-eclampsia. I was informed that if I were to have any more children that the chances of it reoccurring were slight. However, five years later during the birth of my second son I had it more severe with the onset of HELLP syndrome, nearly losing my sight. but with the aid of magnesium sulphate and a long hospital stay my son and I survived. I was not informed that this was so dangerous. Unfortunately, because I was not i...
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Posted On Thursday, January 07, 2010 by Mary
My daughter had migraines, horrible indigestion, pain in her right side, very very swollen ankles and legs. When she complained to her ob/gyn, she was told she had normal, end of pregnancy complaints and she would be fine. She was 40 weeks pregnant. She called me and was sick and vomitting, couldn't keep anything down (this had been going on for months), I said to call her dr. She did, they said to do a fetal kick count and call back. They had her go to the hospital...
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Posted On Tuesday, January 05, 2010 by Kathie
Until my 15th week in pregnancy, it seemed like everything was going just normal like all the books and websites told me it would be. Around my 15th week, we took a trip down to Tennessee (in the beginning of June), and that's when I started to notice some swelling in my ankles and feet. I thought it was caused by the heat and humidity, so I hoped it would disappear when we got home. Unfortunately, it didn't. My midwife checked my blood pressure and protein levels and I was fine at the time, but...
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Posted On Monday, January 04, 2010 by Miranda
THIS IS OUR STORY....My first pregnancy back in 2003 seemed to be normal to me. Until about my 33 week. I was extremely swollen, couldn't hardly walk with out being in pain, headaches that would not go away, not able to keep any food down, high blood pressure and very flushed feeling. My Ob office proceeded to tell me that my BP was high from walking from the parking lot to the office. Being my first pregancy I trusted them. That weekend my husband and I took a trip (about 3 hr...
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Posted On Friday, January 01, 2010 by Dawn
It was December 23, 2009 when I went to my doctor for my 38 week visit. This was my first pregnancy and I had been blessed with a wonderful pregnancy as well. Throughout my 38 weeks of pregnancy, I never once felt sick, tired and gained on 26 pounds. I actually enjoyed my time being pregnant. However, all that changed two days before Christmas. On my routine visit that typically took 5 to 10 minutes, I was informed that my blood pressure was too high and there was a...
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Posted On Wednesday, December 30, 2009 by Mindy
Hi...My name is Mindy and I have an almost 3 year old son named Andrew and here is my story...I was 19 when I was preggo with Andrew and I had a rough pregnancy. I was on bedrest from 16 wks till I delivered. I suffered from sciatic nerve pain and swelling all over. I was miserable to say the least but never had any known problems with preeclampsia. I would go to my OB visits and sometimes I was unable to use the bathroom to give them urine to test so it was no big deal they said I was f...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 29, 2009 by Elizabeth
I am so glad to have found this site. I am sad to know that so many women are suffering in this day and age and losing their lifes or their babies. In 1995 I had my first son who is almost 14 and I had severe hyperemesis. I remarried and due to mismanaged medical care, we lost 3 babies before they were born to hyperemesis. In 2008 we thought we had found the perfect dr. He had helped us try to conceive for a year. He would call us at home to check on us and he seemed like a dream. Or so we thoug...
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Posted On Thursday, December 24, 2009 by Jennifer
In the spring of 2008, our family was undergoing so many changes. After six years of marriage, my husband Matt and I were finally expecting our first child at the end of April, 2008. Additionally, my husband had been offered a job promotion so we were preparing for a move from Connec...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by Kelly
In December 2003, my husband and I found out we were expecting our third child. We had two very small children already, girls born in 2000 and 2002. It turned out that our third child was due on our younger daughter's second birthday, September 4, 2004. I am one of those people who likes to know what to expect or what to watch for, so being a chronic migraine sufferer, I had read the section in "What to Expect" on preeclampsia MANY times trying ...
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Posted On Friday, December 18, 2009 by Kristen
I had, by all accounts, a very "easy" pregnancy. I felt nauseous during the first trimester, but only got truly sick once. I was tired, my breasts hurt, and I cried at Hallmark commericals, but nothing was out of the ordinary. I even went on vacation to Puerto Rico with my husband at 27 weeks. All of my tests came back normal, the ultrasounds showed a perfectly normal, healthy, developing baby girl, and I fully expected that I would deliver a healthy baby at the end of January.The only ...
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Posted On Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by Tammy
Hello There, Well I was diagnose w/ p-clampsia when I was 29 weeks. I do have diabetes and pcos,which doesn't help w/ p-clampsia. It started when I had protein in my urine and then my BP was getting higher every vist between 140/90! So I was in the Hospital 3 X less then 2 weeks apart because every Dr had a different opionion who was on call at the time. To make a long story short I'm back in the hospital at 33weeks and 3 day prego because at my fetal medicine dr. thought my bp was to high and m...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Mindy
I was diagnosed with preelcampsia in week 35 of pregnancy. I was placed on bed rest for four days but when it was determined that this was not helping my condition the baby was delivered via C-section. The baby was born perfectly healthy at 5 lbs 2.7 oz and 17 inches He did not have to spend any time in the NICU and soon after delivery he was brought to my hospital room. The baby and I were released from the hospital within 96 hours of delivery and within two weeks my blood pressure had ...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Janice
I knew something was wrong when the nurse took my blood pressure twice during my 28 week visit. After taking my blood pressure the second time the nurse walked out of the office without even mentioning what my pressure was. My Ob then walked into the room shaking his head. My Ob then explained that my blood pressure was elevated and there was protien found in my urine and directed me and my partner into his office. While sitting in his office my Ob stated that I would have to be admitted into th...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Theresa
I wasn't due to have my son until August 4, 2009 but on June 19th I started to feel extremely dizzy and had a headache that didn't go away. On a run I made to a local CVS to pick up a prescription, I decided to check my blood pressure at the little station they have next to the pharmacy while I waited. The first reading was 165/100, but I thought it was wrong, so I did it again. It was still the same. I hadn't heard too much about preeclampsia, so I wasn't too worried. I gave the on call...
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Posted On Saturday, December 12, 2009 by Laura
I was thirty weeks pregnant. This was my first child. On August 1, 2008, I woke up around 3 am with a bad headache, which wasn't uncommon in my pregnancy. I took some fast acting Tylenol and laid back down. I couldn't go back to sleep and the headache wasn't going away. My husband was soon up to commute to his construction job for the summer. I put a cold rag on my head to try and soothe the pain. The headache only got worse. I called my doctor's office as soon as it opened, and they said I shou...
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Posted On Saturday, December 12, 2009 by josie
i wanted to share this letter my partner wrote to our families after our wild experience of birth...
Hi loved ones,
Finnally i get to a "something" (this computer) to contact people and let you know a little bit about what has been happening with the birth of our son. He was born on the 21/7/2008 at 9:11pm, monday night. We have named him "Jalahyn Jalaki" (for now, if we don't change our minds again) which means "rainbow...
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Posted On Friday, December 11, 2009 by la teasha
Hello. My name is La Teasha Wallen. November 22 nd 2009 was when i found out that i had preeclampsia. I was home one that Sunday and i just wanted to sleep. i was tired and haad chores in my house to do. My oldest son (La Twan) asked if i felt ok. i saild "Mama is just so tired". He asked me if i wanted him to go and wash clothes for me and i said,"only if you want to" and he said, "yes". I said,"ok". So he washed our clothes and dried them then came home. I was very very ...
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Posted On Friday, December 11, 2009 by Paula
My life with HELLP Syndrome begins on November 27, 2002. I was feeling great, no real problems. Suddenly at 10PM while my husband and I watch the evening news, I suddenly became what some might say was a scene right out of the Exorcist. I began violently vomitting all over. As I tried to make it to the bathroom, I was thinking, "I must have food poisoning?" After 20 minutes of the vomitting I was able to go back to bed, and sleep somewhat comfortably. The next morning, I felt fluish. I called my...
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Posted On Wednesday, December 09, 2009 by laura
During my last trimester , I experienced constant pain/discomfort in my upper abdomen. After telling my doctor on several occasions, she dismissed it and said that it was the baby pushing up into my rib cage. The last three to four weeks of my pregnancy, the same doctor noted that my BP was high but didn't make it seem like it was a big deal. She merely asked if I had been having headaches, which I had not. I was , however, still experiencing this pain in the abdomen and I had been nauseous...
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