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Posted On Friday, April 04, 2003 by
When I was 18 I went to my normal doctor visit. I was feeling under the weather. After the nurse took my blood pressure, the doctor came in and said I need to go to the hospital right now. He told me to not stop anywhere.
I was so scared. The hospital wouldn't tell me exactly what was wrong. Just that I had high blood pressure and they were trying to get it down.
I was in the hospital for about a week. My father had seen a little medical kit w/ preeclampsia on it. He looked it up and found...
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Posted On Friday, April 04, 2003 by
When I was 18 I went to my normal doctor visit. I was feeling under the weather. After the nurse took my blood pressure, the doctor came in and said I need to go to the hospital right now. He told me to not stop anywhere.
I was so scared. The hospital wouldn't tell me exactly what was wrong. Just that I had high blood pressure and they were trying to get it down.
I was in the hospital for about a week. My father had seen a little medical kit w/ preeclampsia on it. He looked it up and found...
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Posted On Thursday, April 03, 2003 by
I finished work at 36 weeks pregnant. The majority of the pregnancy i was feeling pretty good. This was my first baby and although i suffered a lot of headaches I thought it was probably just stress.(I worked in a busy childcare centre). I went to my 36 week visit at the birthing centre, feeling calm and optimistic. I figured i still had a few weeks to get organised now that i had stopped work. The midwife checked my urine and indicated that it had traces of protein. Then she took my blood...
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Posted On Wednesday, April 02, 2003 by Carrie
I delivered a healthy baby girl on February 19, 2002. However, she was not suppose to arrive until March 28th, 2002. Here is my story.
Due to insurance reasons, I had to switch OB/GYNs and go to a different hospital. I had to practices to choose from. I thought my new Doctor seemed great. However, I will never recommended her to anyone. I think my situation would have been better if she would have listened to me and not used her same old reply, "that's normal with every pregnancy."
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Posted On Sunday, March 30, 2003 by
"Ignorance is not bliss," this is a saying that i've learned and lived by since May of 1999. At the young age of 16, I knew I did not need a child. But as a responsible person I planned for the arrival. The only thing that I wasn't prepared for were the events that happened on May 4, 1999- May 28, 1999, when I was less than a week from turning 6 months. On May 3, 1999, I was experiencing what I thought to be normal pregnancy symptoms. Until I started vomiting water, and had a migraine head...
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Posted On Friday, March 28, 2003 by Bianca
I AM WRITING THIS HOPEFULLY TO HELP OTHER WOMAN WHO AREN'T AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF PREECLAMSIA...I HAD LOST 3 PREVIOUS PREGNANCIES BEFORE BECOMING PREGNANT IN APRIL OF 1997...NO ONE HAD BEEN ABLE TO TELL ME WHY I HAD LOST THESE PREGNANCIES BUT THE VERY FIRST LOSS WAS AT 25 WEEKS GESTATION AND BEING A FIRST TIME MOTHER I TOOK THE DOCTOR'S WORD THAT IT WAS JUST A FREAK OCCURANCE...WELL I LOST TWO MORE AFTER THAT WHEN I BECAME PREGNANT IN 1997...I FOUND OUT AT 6 WEEKS GESTATION THAT I HAD BEEN PREG...
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Posted On Thursday, March 27, 2003 by Shyann
Pre-eclampisa, or toxemia as my family refers to it, was something that my aunt had when she was pregnant with my cousin. It was a story I knew little about. Just that she was sick near her due date. I had no idea how horrible of a disease it is till it happened to me.....
I was having a wonderful pregnancy. No morning sickness at all. The only problem I had was feeling tired all the time. I thought it was normal. At about the 27 week mark, my hands and feet started to swell, and I cou...
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Posted On Saturday, March 22, 2003 by
My doctors first expressed concern about preeclampsia when I was 32 weeks pregnant with my son, Sam. My blood pressure went up to 140/90, so they tried to control it with bedrest and had me monitor it from home to make sure it didn't rise sharply. I had no protein in my urine and no swelling (edema), so their concern at that point seemed mild to me. I continued the bedrest (over Christmas, too -- ugh) and my weekly appointments. In fact, the routine got to be the same: the nurse would take m...
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Posted On Thursday, March 20, 2003 by Grace
I do not know where to begin. Everything happened so fast and the time just flew by from the first moment I started having contractions to when the baby was delivered.
I felt as if I had to go to the bathroom at 3:00 am on February 19th. Not unusual because I seemed to be going every two hours anyway but then I felt I had to go every half hour and started to feel this pain at 4:00 am. I thought it was Braxton-Hicks that should have been normal at 33 weeks. By 5:30 am I knew they were ...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 by Sarah
My Story.
My name is Lize and I got pregnant when I was 28 years old after only 2 months of trying. We never dreamed it would be so easy and quick because a doctor told me years ago that I would struggle in getting pregnant. We were very happy.
At 8 weeks pregnant, I started to get really very tired. I would sleep the whole night and by 10am I would be so tired, I couldnt stay awake.
At 13 weeks pregnant, I went for my first doctors visit and everything was fine. She gave me some ...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 by
I had a wonderful, picture perfect pregnancy. I experienced no morning sickness or other difficulties. Later in my pregnancy, I started to experience some mild swelling. I wasn't worried about it - my blood pressure and urine tests were fine.
At 35 weeks, I had an appointment with my midwife. I had protien in my urine (+2), but my blood pressure was still fine. We talked about the warning signs of pre-eclampsia. As the week progressed, I started to feel unwell - I was extremely tired ...
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Posted On Monday, March 17, 2003 by
I have two children from to different men.
I got pregnant with Kaci at 19. Her due date was June 30, 1996. My pregnancy was normal until I was two weeks from my due date. I went in for my check-up. The doctor said my blood pressure was up and so he laid me on my left hand side. I was there for about an hour and my BP was down so they sent me home. I went back next week for the same check-up. My BP was up again so they sent me to the hospital. The hospital brought my BP back down and again the...
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Posted On Thursday, March 13, 2003 by Megan
It was December 1998 and i was having a happy straight forward pregnancy up until this point. I went for an antenatel check at 28 weeks and was told that my bp had gone up slightly but it was nothing to worry about and i should rest more. I thought thats ok because i was finishing my hairdressing job in a weeks time anyway. I had noticed that i had been very tired and had blurred vision for about a week but thought it was pretty normal for pregnancy(i didn't know much as this was to be my first ...
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Posted On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 by Trish
She turns one on March 31, 2003. A miracle if I have ever known one.
My pregnany was an extremely normal one, if not perfect. I had no morning sickness, was barely showing and at 28 weeks had gained a reasonable 20 pounds. I felt wonderful and loved every minute of being pregnant. Many of my friends had and continue to say how they hate to gain weight and "get fat." Far from that, I loved seeing my tummy grow and I loved every kick that I felt.
At my 28th week I went to my ob for rout...
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Posted On Sunday, March 09, 2003 by
"My Story"
by Lisa Cook
My name is Lisa Cook and I am 37 years old and have 4 wonderful children, a 21 year old son, 19 year old daughter and 11 year old son and 8 year old son.........the thought of being pregnant again at my age was unheard of.........but in the month of march i found out i was pregnant AGAIN!
Well everything was going great all through my pregnancy I was now 9 months and i had only gained 6 pounds and very strong and healthy as all my oth...
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Posted On Friday, March 07, 2003 by
I was 20 years old when my husband and I decided to start a family. All I have ever wanted to was be a mother. I had already quit my job as a dental assistant and opened up a home daycare so I could stay home with my baby. We got pregnant right away and my due date was 12/23/01.
At 28 weeks I went in for a gluco test and my blood pressure was up. The nurse told me I had gained 7 lbs. since my last visit. They had me lay on my left side for a while and took my bp again. It was fine so...
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Posted On Friday, March 07, 2003 by
I am grateful to have a group like the Preeclampsia Foundation to support. My situation was atypical and illustrates how seemingly random and unexpected preeclampsia can be. I fit none of the risk categories and it was a healthy, problem-free second pregnancy (as was my first). I was not overweight, hypertensive, over 40, having my first baby, or carrying multiples.
There were no indications of the condition until 4 days after I delivered. I was sent home from the hospital after 3 day...
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Posted On Thursday, March 06, 2003 by Sara
I was 26 years old and looking forward to the birth of our first child. My symptoms of Preeclampsia start in my second trimester, with swollen ankles. The next time I went to the Doctor my blood pressure was up. It kept rising with each visit. I'd say I was about 32 weeks along when I became more apprehensive about my condition; My ankles and legs were huge and I was having headaches, but the doctor didn't seem too worried. So I just decided I should calm down. I continued to have tons of ...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 05, 2003 by Camille
Most people dislike Mondays. Its the first workday of the week. I was one of those people too. That was until Monday, October 15, 2001. That was a Monday I will always cherish. Of course, the day didnt start out that way.
My husband, Marc, and I desperately wanted a baby. We went to a fertility specialist, had all the tests and found nothing medically wrong, other than my agewhich was 36 at the time. I had some problems with mild hypertension, but controlled it with diet and medi...
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Posted On Tuesday, March 04, 2003 by
Well there's just a few things i would like to say about preeclampsia, It was a very scarey process. A month or two till my do date i was very swollen very uncomfortable, i couldn't wear shoes but what i heard then most women experience swelling during pregnancy's. I gained like fourty five to fifty pounds which really was hard, my doctors just said becareful you don't want to gain too much weight. I really wasn't doing anything different then i ever did before, i was overweight before my pregna...
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