I am a 28 year-old mom who was excited to learn of a second pregnancy.  My husband and I were thrilled that we got pregnant so quickly again! We have a beautiful daughter who was 1 1/2 years old when we found out the news.  I had a perfect pregnancy with no complications and even less exciting delivery.  I felt like a superhero after her birth and couldn't wait to have that experience again!First Problem:I was 33 weeks pregnant and not due to see the OB ag... Read more

I have had 3 out of 4 premature babies.  My first at 30 weeks with eclampsia; emergency c-section.  2 lbs 3 oz. (Boy, now 6 years---minor speech delay and nearsighted needing glasses.) Second pregnancy, 37 weeks,  6 lbs 5 oz, no complications; VBAC.  (Girl, now 4 1/2 years)3rd pregnancy, preeclampsia at 32 weeks, c-section; 3 lbs 1 oz.  (Boy, now 2 1/2, small for his age) 4th pregnancy, preeclampsia & HELLP, 24 weeks, c-section;&nb... Read more

January 2, 2009, at just 27 weeks pregnant, I went into the hospital with high blood pressure, swelling, and other complications.  I was told that I needed to stay overnight to have a urine test and to monitor the baby.  After the initial 24 hours they determined that I had preeclampsia.  My BP had come down and the nurses thought that maybe I would get to go home but that wasn't the case.  I met with the high risk OB and he did an ultrasound to see how our baby was doing.&nb... Read more

Hi there. My name is Christina. I have recently lost my son. I was diagnosed with preeclampsia about 5 weeks ago and it turned into HELLP. It has been two weeks now since I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He weighed 1 pound and 1oz. He was 11 and a half inches long and looked so much like his daddy. I was 23 weeks and 1 day. We named him Zac Phillip Alphones Ducharme. It all started one morning I woke up and noticed my face was a little puffy. I wasn't too worried but I went to the h... Read more

In November 2008 my daughter in her 24th week of pregnancy at age 21 had facial swelling, trouble with her vision and complained of a headache ( all of this came on in just one day ). I am a cardiac ICU nurse and remembered from nursing school that these symptoms were not a good thing in pregnancy. I called the OB doc and was told it was probably just a headache and to take Tylenol. After day two of this I brought a BP cuff home from work and checked her BP myself at home and it was 190/102. ... Read more

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My oldest daughter was born when I was only 16 years old. I had preeclampsia with the pregnancy that was attributed to my age. Eight years later I became pregnant with my second daughter. I was nervous about having complications due to high blood pressure but was assured by my doctor that it only happened with the first pregnancy due to my young age at the time.My second pregnancy was great. A few days prior to going into labor I did experience a small amount of swelling. My labor went ... Read more

It's always hard to start, but seeing my 2 year daughter running around calling me mammy pushes me to sign in and share my painful experience with everybody and specially with moms who's babies are still in the NICU.After two years of marriage, my husband and I thought that it was time to start a family.Being pregnant is the biggest responsibility I ever had in my life. I was always very worried about my little baby, so I spent so many times at the doctor's office complaining from morni... Read more

I was diagnosed with preeclampsia no symptoms other than a little raised blood pressure and signs of elevated sugar I guess. I don't remember. I was young when I was pregnant at 19 years old with my first child survived. At 23 with my second child survived, the same hospital delivered. I was very well taken care of both times and went full term no complications and I was monitored very well.I look back after going through preeclampsia at 40 years old with major symptoms and with horrible ca... Read more

My name Is Abigail S. I was a young woman expecting a baby at 19 years old. I didn't find out my body was developing a child until I was about 4 to 5 months pregnant. It wasn't until after I started going to my doctor visits regularly and taking my prenatal vitamins did I feel fine. I thought to myself, "Man this pregnancy is going to be a walk in the park."  I, like many other young mothers did not know anything about preeclampsia and was concerned and worried when I started to ga... Read more

My story begins 8 years ago, my husband and I were expecting our first baby together. My pregnancy began as a typical pregnancy with morning sickness and water retention or so I thought. About 12 weeks into my pregnancy I began to become ill with blurred vision, pain around my kidney area and vomiting. I had just been in for a doctor's appointment and made another one. They set me up for a sonogram for the next day, September 11, 2001.I did not make it to my sonogram appointment. I had s... Read more

Up until about 30 weeks my pregnancy had been wonderful. Correct amounts of weight gain and healthy looking baby. My problems started around 30 weeks and it consisted mostly of headaches that would not go away and a constant upper right quadrant pain. The pain became so intense to the point of not being able to sleep an living off Tylenol. I had had a touch of bronchitis before and my doctor believed I was having some pain from that. At my 35 week checkup at the health department I was ... Read more

I survived but our son did not. He was stillborn at 34 weeks. I had an appointment at my doctor's office two days before this happened and the nurse indicated in the medical record that there was protein in my urine sample which told them that there was a problem with my kidneys. She did not tell the doctor of this and I was sent home to rest rather than be hospitalized to be observed.Two days later I became very ill with pressure in my abdominal area. I went to see my doctor who sent me to ... Read more

I had my first child at a young age, 18 years old. I was having a girl. Everything was going well up until my 25th week of pregnancy. I started to notice my ankle swelling for a few days. I thought I was retaining water but wasn't. I woke up on May, 21, 2009 and my whole body was swollen. I went to the nearest hospital. I was there for a little over 3 hours and the doctor came in and told me I had preeclampsia and was being sent to a hospital in Pontiac.So I went and four days later, at onl... Read more

My daughter was born on February 20, 1990.  I was 20 years old and in excellent physical condition at the time of my pregnancy.  The last three weeks before I was due I was getting terrible headaches, had protein in my urine, swelling hands/feet/face and my blood pressure was very high.  I woke up early the morning of 2/18/90 and had horrible pain.  I had never given birth or been through labor so I thought that was what the pain was from.  Upon further examination it tu... Read more

When I became pregnant with my son in the summer of 2008, everything seemed like a dream. I had an absolutely perfect pregnancy. I experienced minimal morning sickness, did not gain very much weight, and basically felt physically amazing. As I neared my due date, I became pretty confident that things were going to be cake, as everything else had been. When I went to my 37 week checkup, I felt great and was looking forward to another perfect appointment. That was when the nurse looked concerned w... Read more

I have had two battles with preeclampsia.  The first was with my son, who was also my first pregnancy.  I went along with a fairly normal pregnancy.  I did have a lot of swelling and weight gain, but my Dr kept telling me that was normal.  It was at my 38 week check up that they couldn't get my baby to move during the NST and my blood pressure was high, so they sent me over to another office to have an emergency ultrasound to make sure the baby was ok.  He looked good, b... Read more

   It all started Sunday, Jan 31st.  I woke up early in the morning, around 6 a.m. feeling really sick. I thought it was the usual routine of morning sickness because I had morning sickness throughout the entire pregnancy. My boyfriend started to get concerned because he thought I was dehydrated from all the the vomiting and nausea. I decided to call my OB and ... Read more

A year ago, I was feeling pains in my stomach. I was pregnant for the first time and thought... maybe these were just Braxton Hicks, but I started noticing my urine was getting darker and darker and it caused concern. I wasn't sure what was going on because I was a model patient. I hadn't had any problems in my first 32 weeks of pregnancy. We went to the doctor and they found there was a high level of protein in my urine and my blood pressure was elevated. I met with the doctor and ... Read more

A happy, healthy married woman, I was 21 years old when we found out we were going to have our first baby! We were over the moon! I got pregnant in late may 2009 and was given a due date of February 26th 2010. I would be 22 at the time. I was being sent to a high risk practice in a fabulous hospital where I live in Baltimore, MD. However I was not high risk, or at least not at the time, but God knew and thank God I was with the practice I was!My grandmother had placenta previa with my mother... Read more