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Posted On Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by
my daughter became pregnant at 18 with her first child she was young healthy skinny a cheerleader's body very early in the pregnancy she developed high blood pressure which we now know was preeclampsyia... she had a minor stroke during this pregnancy very difficult delivery to a healthy 10 pound boy fast foreward 12 years and she is now in her 30's happily married and decides to have another child i freaked how could she try this again after such a life threatening experience prior......this pre...
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Posted On Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by
Jan. 21,1995 I found out I was pregnant with our first child. we were so excited and so happy. however I felt sick throughout my entire pregnancy, head aches all the time, once I reached my 2nd trimester my blood preassure started rising. My doctor just continued to watch through the rest of my pregnancy. Finally one night i got out of bed and was so sick. My doctor saw me at the emergency room and they induced my labor, approx 36 hours later our daughter was born (only 10 days early)as s...
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Posted On Tuesday, September 23, 2003 by
I was 22 when I got pregnant with my little chicken (my nickname for her). In a perfect world my pregnancy should have been a breeze. I was young, healthy, I worked out for the better part of my pregnancy, although it was modified from my regular strenuous routine, I was a vegetarian. My husband (at the time) ensured that I ate properly and continued to take care of myself even on the days where all I wanted to do was crawl back into bed and not go out into the world. Little did I know the...
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Posted On Sunday, September 21, 2003 by
I was 31 years old when I found out I was pregnant. This was my first baby and quite a surprise, as previously I did not get pregnant even on fertility treatments. I had a lot of morning sickness and a placenta previa scare around 20 weeks. Right around the time my placenta previa resolved (22 wks) my blood pressure started shooting up.
The Dr was a little concerned and I started going to the Dr every week, blood work every week, and 24 hour urine weekly. At no time was I ever told I need...
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Posted On Friday, September 19, 2003 by
Dear Families,
My name is Crystal Neighbors. I am going to tell you my personal story of loosing my son, Peyton Austin Neighbors. I found out that I was pregnant on November 27, 2003. I was scared, nervous, wondering if I would be a good mother. I was also very excited. My family started buying baby outfits and toys before we even knew the sex of the baby. They were just as excited as I was. I planned on doing the nursery in a Precious Moments theme.
I was gaining a lot of weigh...
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Posted On Friday, September 19, 2003 by
Hi my name is amanda i am from Ga. I became pregnate when I was 17 yrs old and i went to the doctor everything was good. When i was 41/2 months i found out i was having a little boy everything looked so good on the sonogram i was excited i bought all kinds of boy things and was getting ready for him. I had stayed pretty sick the whole time but i thought it was just a part of being pregnate. I would sleep all the time and i kept gettin dizzy and my head would kill me everyday but besides that i w...
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Posted On Friday, September 19, 2003 by
When I was 19 I delivered my son at 26 weeks. He weighed 1lb 7oz. I didn't know what was happening to me I was swollen from head to toe. My legs looked like tree trunks. When I would go see the doctors at the prenatal clinic, they would tell me to cut back on my salt intake. I didn't think anything was actually wrong with me and since the doctors weren't concerned I dismissed the swelling and thought of it as normal. I was at work on day when I went blind in my right eye. I looked at the...
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Posted On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 by christine
As I was pregnant with my first son 9yrs ago, the symptoms that come to mind is a horrible headache. I remember going to my Dr's appt at 21 weeks and gained 30 lbs in one month. My BP was up. My OBGYN immediatly told me that he had to send me to a high risk practice. I was in and out of the hospital, on bed rest both at home and in the hospital. I was given Procardia broken up in liquid form under my tounge to keep my BP down. After an amniocentisis at 34 weeks they determined it was safe to ind...
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Posted On Sunday, September 14, 2003 by Sue
Hi:
I suffered from eclampsia. I had a very good delivery, and a
beautiful healthy baby girl. Thak you God. The "post" eclampsia,
as I call it, came afterward. An hour after delivery, I began
suffering from a severe throbbing headache. It was unbearable. I
was pounding the pillow begging for relief. My doctor first
administered Demerol, but it had no affect...and the pain was
increasing. They took my blood pressure, and found it was
elevated and decided to put me on phe...
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Posted On Friday, September 12, 2003 by
Pregnant with my second child, I started having edema in January 2003 (much worse than with my first baby) along with vision changes (seeing spots). In February of 2003 (at 32 weeks), "just for fun" I used the blood pressure machine at work and had a BP of 138/86. (Normal for me is 90/60). Called my OB right away, and was sent to the hospital for an evaluation. BP was in the 150/90 range and +1 protein. Immediately put on bedrest and admitted to the hospital three days later.
Ultrasound ...
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Posted On Thursday, September 11, 2003 by Stacy
At my 20 week level 2 ultrasound, my pregnancy was progressing as normal. I had a LOOP/LEEP procedure eight years before and I was being seen by my OB for measurements every two weeks. At 22 weeks, my blood pressure was elevated, but didn't seem to concern many. I was told to put my feet up and rest in the afternoons. I am a high school teacher, and this was a somewhat easy task. By week 24, my daughter was no longer growing, did not have enough weight to survive outside of the womb and my ...
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Posted On Tuesday, September 09, 2003 by
Where do I begin? Before I became pregnant, I weighed 110 lbs. From the beginning, I was very sick with severe nausea & vomitting and was given a prescription. The drug helped for a couple of weeks, but the nausea & vomitting returned. Still, I gained weight fairly rapidly. At six weeks, I had already gained 14 lbs, even without being able to keep foods down.
During my 19 week check-up my blood pressure was 142/80. My blood pressure increased from there. When I went to my 24 week che...
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Posted On Saturday, September 06, 2003 by Julie
Even though this condition happen to me 21 years ago, I can close my eyes and it seems like yesterday. It was my husband's and my first pregnancy. I was in excellent health. My OB told me I was at a great age to be pregnant. I didn't smoke, drink, but perodically I ate one to many Snicker Bars. I didn't have any morning sickness but I did have intense heartburn throughout the pregnancy.
I had never heard of this condition. My OB didn't educate me about this serious, life threatening conditio...
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Posted On Thursday, September 04, 2003 by Cheri
Reading the stories here always brings me to tears, because I realize how lucky my little girl and I are. I was very excited to be pregnant, and had an easy first 6 months. My weight gain was minimal, I felt good, and continued to work and prepare the nursery. I began to have blood pressure problems at 28 weeks, but I was thinking I had been doing too much at work. I was being monitored by a perinatologist for risk factors for an unrelated problem, so I continued to have my blood pressure ...
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Posted On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 by
Today's date--9/3/03
I would like to start by saying reading the other women's stories on this site has helped me so much to understand what happened to me less than 3 weeks ago.
I had just started with a new employer on 8/1/03. Less than 2 weeks on the new job, on 8/12/03, my story begins. I was at work, as usual. I was noticing for the previous week 1/2 or so that my already swollen feet had grown up to my legs, thighs, arms, face, etc... I had just visited the Dr about 3 weeks ago an...
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Posted On Saturday, August 30, 2003 by Amy
Hi my name is Kelli Magruder and I am the mother of a healthy 2 year old named Delaney. Although she is the joy of my life, it took alot of hard work to get her here.
I had complications from the beginning, but my doctor never really considered anything was wrong. I had high blood pressure from the very start of my pregnancy, and hospitilaized from my second month, all the way through to my fifth month of pregnancy from extreme nausea and vomiting. I couldnt keep anything down. When...
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Posted On Monday, August 25, 2003 by Becky
My first pregnancy was smooth. Everything was going smoothly and I was feeling fantastic looking forward to the birth of our child. I was 26 weeks pregnant and working full time, preparing for maternity leave. This was a very hot summer and I was swollen, my shoes were 2 sizes too big which I put down to the weather!
One monday morning 8th August 1994 I woke up feeling very dizzy and I was huge. Swollen like a whale. I could see floaters in front of my eyes. After alot of persuation...
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Posted On Saturday, August 23, 2003 by Nicole
At 18 i didnt know what was going on, i swelled up to double my size, couldnt get clothes on or shoes and i always felt tired. On my fortnightly visits to the doctors i told them (i had a different person each time) these problems and they took my blood pressure, it was ok, i was told it was just the heat of the summer. Twice this happend so 6 weeks later on my 3rd visit i told them my symtoms again, she took my blood pressure, felt my bump and monitered my babys heart beat then insisted we go ...
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Posted On Friday, August 22, 2003 by
I am 34 years old and my husband and I had not planned to have children - but had always said "if it happens - that's ok too". I had been told since I was 22 that I would probably not be able to have children and that if I wanted to try would need fertility treatments. Here we were using birth control and found out we were pregnant! We were shocked but excited. I never knew I wanted to be someones mommy until I was going to be.
I have a history of high blood pressure and was on atenalol. ...
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Posted On Thursday, August 21, 2003 by Cynthia
MY STORY,
My husband and I lost our son in march of
2003 due to severe preeclampsia,He was our only child
Our son Brendan Jay was born 2/4/2003 he lived for 26
days he was taken by emergency c/section at just 24
weeks gestation.We all thought he was going to make it
he was doing well to be so premature then he got
premature septic shock from 2 infections he got.The
sepis began shutting down all his vital organs, He
began to code no matter what the doctors ...
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