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Posted On Thursday, March 08, 2012 by TaMyra
This is my story of survival. This is also my daughter's story of survival. At 22 weeks, I noticed my feet were extremely swollen, and I could barely breathe. I thought it was just normal pregnancy symptoms, until the doctor said my BP was 170/11!! I was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia at 23 weeks. It was way too early to have my baby. We were given steroids immediately for her lungs, in case an emergency C-Secti...
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Posted On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 by Destanee
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Saturday December 11, 2010, I had a really bad headache... stronger than the others. I didn't have headaches throughout my pregnancy however for the past 3 days I was having them. But I shrugged it off since I called my OB's office and one of the nurses said it was "Flu Symptoms." Me and my fiance Steve were at his family party and I sat there feeling fine for the first 5 minutes then all of a sudden I got a migraine and felt really weak. All I had to do w...
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Posted On Monday, March 05, 2012 by Anne-Mari
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Six days after delivering my second child I awoke to my heart pounding out of my chest and throat, I felt like death, couldn’t breathe, and my right leg was extremely swollen. I assumed the swelling was normal reaction to all the IV fluids from delivery and I was having an anxiety attack from the past months events, but the ER doctor told me a different more frightening story.
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Posted On Saturday, March 03, 2012 by Jessica
To begin the story of my journey, I was 26 years old, happily married to the love of my life, and pregnant with our first baby. The pregnancy was a pleasant surprise, and from the very beginning we were adamant about taking great care for our new arrival. I would take a handful of vitamins everyday, as well as exercise and eat healthy to make sure our little one was getting all the things he needed. We read books, planned, and I even kept a daily journal of my pregnancy as a keepsake for his ...
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Posted On Saturday, February 25, 2012 by Kimberly
I got pregnant with my first son Ryan and got married at the age of 18. I had one complication while pregnant with him, and that was I could not stop eating. I ate everything I saw and well… it showed because I gained almost 75lbs with him. Besides that self-inflicted mishap with Ryan I had nothing wrong in that pregnancy. My beautiful 10 lb, 3 oz baby boy was born October 4, 1996.  After a while of being married and having a new baby so young my then husband decided ...
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Posted On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Leanne
and ironically only 9 week before the due date of the next baby here is....
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Posted On Friday, February 03, 2012 by Shawn
When I conceived Ava and Noah via In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) at 40 years old I was taking a low dose of high blood pressure medication. I was never warned about preeclampsia and had no idea that 1 in 3 women carrying multiples develop preeclampsia. I was so desperate to have a baby after three very long years of trying to conceive that transferring two blastocysts seemed like the right thing to do. At 18 weeks I was put on bed rest after a trip to the emergency room when...
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Posted On Thursday, February 02, 2012 by laetitia
Hi,
As the title mention, I plan a 2nd pregnancy soon. I'm foreign and looking for somebody in a similar case near my area (DC-MD area) to share experience and interesting, useful and helpful information.
All the Best.
Titia
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Posted On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 by Raphaela
Tomorrow (2nd Feb 2012) would have been the happiest day of my life. It would have been the birth of my first baby, my baby girl. Instead of tears of joy there would be tears of sadness. Why did she have to go?????? Leaving me and daddy all alone... what have I done wrong to deserve this?
My story was a happy love story. I met my boyfriend 8 years ago, fell in love and after all those time together, we decided to try for a baby. After 4months of trying I was pregnant for the first ...
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Posted On Monday, January 30, 2012 by Jill
Within 6 months of our wedding day in October 2003, my husband Jeff and I unexpectedly found out we were pregnant. Like all happily expecting, first-time parents, our trepidation grew into excitement and joy as my belly grew and both of us devoured What to Expect When You Are Expecting.We found out in May that I was pregnant and spent the summer debating which of the NYC borough names would be most appropriate for our offspring. . . you see, I had decided long ago that I would nam...
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Posted On Saturday, January 28, 2012 by jackie
I am a survivor!!  I was pregnant in my 7th month and was told by an OB DR, "Welcome to pregnancy!" when i informed her about my swelling. My BP and urine samples were all normal that week. With in the next couple days I started getting abdominal pain, and thinking it was just from constipation, so I took some powder and waited for it to kick in for 3 days. The pain just got worse and started to affect my breathing. Finally, Christmas morning came around and my husband and I got up and...
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Posted On Friday, January 27, 2012 by melissa
I have two daughters, Mia is 4 1/2 and Lyla is almost 14 months. I got sick during about my 5th month with Lyla. Terrible nose bleeds, back pain, low weight gain, blurry vision....Constantly going to my doctors saying something was wrong but being ignored...at 31 weeks I went into my doctor for a check-up and was told they were checking me into the hospital....Lyla was showing like a 27 week old and I had a lot of protein in my urine.  That night they told me that they woul...
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Posted On Friday, January 27, 2012 by Jasmine
After several years of trying to get pregnant, my husband and I were finally going to be parents. I found out in January 2010 that I was expecting. It was the most amazing feeling ever. Other than sleeping through most of the first trimester, my pregnancy was perfect and I was glowing.It was the week after my baby shower in July 2010 when my body became very swollen. I immediately made an appointment with my obstetrician, who after routine tests, told me that I was suffering from ...
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Posted On Friday, January 27, 2012 by Nicky
It all started with another kidney infection... The second one in a month. It was the morning of Old Year’s Eve. I tried to phone my gynae’s rooms to see if they might possibly be in but, they were not there. But they had a voicemail on their phone and it said if there are any emergencies or problems to go to the labour ward at the hospital and they will be able to help you.Off we went to the Labour ward…told them what had happened and told them the previous ev...
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Posted On Friday, January 20, 2012 by jennifer
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Every woman’s road to being a mother is different, none is easy. Mine starts at a young age, when my greatest concern was the love of my boyfriend (bf then, soon-to-be my husband). The last thing I wanted to do was have children, I saw motherhood as a thankless job, and I really wasn’t interested at working at any job –especially a thankless one. But as fate would have it, in my first year of college when my worldview dictated that humanity was not only depra...
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Posted On Friday, January 20, 2012 by Lauren
On Tues. Oct.19, I measured small for the second week in a row. With a history of pre-e that can be alarming. They sent me for an ultrasound that showed the baby at 5 pounds 5 ounces. At 37 weeks that put her in the 7th percentile. So we went to the hospital for an NST and lab work. I was sent home and told to return the next day for results. They ran another NST. My BP's were coming in slightly high but nothing alarming. They told me I was fine and sent me on my way. My next appointment was ...
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Posted On Friday, January 20, 2012 by Lauren
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On Feb. 24 (my birthday) I stayed up all night getting things together because I knew in my heart that something was happening the next day. I finally made it to bed around 5:30 the next morning.On Feb. 25 I was awoken at 10:00 to my midwife telling me I only had a few hours to get things together I was being induced that day due to my high BP and high protein levels (over a 4000). I called my husband at work and he came home as soon as he could (well after he found h...
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Posted On Thursday, January 05, 2012 by Tanalee
Preeclampsia and HELLP changed our lives....
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Posted On Monday, January 02, 2012 by Karey
At the dawning of each new year since 1993, I find myself reflecting on that year and the circumstances leading up to it and the achievements since. I've written about it numerous times as I do now. I have so much to be grateful for and it all began somewhere around New Years Eve 1992. I was invited to a New Years Eve party that night and declined at the last minute as I wasn't feeling well and was just over 30 weeks pregnant. The first 3 months of 1993 are a blur. The facts (some are remembe...
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Posted On Thursday, December 29, 2011 by Christina
On Sunday, August 7, 2011 my son, Ryan, was born via c-section at 32 weeks and 6 days gestation weighing 3 pounds 13.6 ounces. At that point I had been on hospital bed rest for about one week due to preeclampsia. That particular day, my lab results came much worse than the previous round of labs (which were already bad) and I was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia. Immediate delivery was necessary. Ryan was born at 4:03 in the afternoon and was immediately s...
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