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Posted On Monday, January 27, 2003 by Sarah
Hello, my name is Simone and I am 28 year old single mom. My son is now eleven months old and was born on 02/27/02. He weighs about 24 lbs now. I mostly copied and pasted from my on-line journal located at www.thelaboroflove.com currently listed under parenting-single moms.
It all started at my 34 week checkup. They checked my blood pressure, and it was high - about 160/95, when it had been running about 120/65. They had me relax a few minutes, but the lower number (diastolic?) didn't go d...
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Posted On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 by
I started swelling around 6 months. It got so bad that I couldn't wear shoes and I couldn't hold a pen in my hand b/c I couldn't bend my fingers! I was gaining weight very rapidly also. My bp had been high for a while and they had been watching it they had also done a few 24 hour urine checks on me but I had no protein in my urine. I went to the doctor for my 32 week check up on Wednesday. My husband was stationed in NC so a friend went to my appt with me. It was my first time seeing one of th...
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Posted On Thursday, January 16, 2003 by Belen
I few days after my due date they sent me in to have another ultrasound to make sure the baby was still "thriving". They calculated that I was about to have a 10 pound baby so they weren't thinking preeclampsia at all but scheduled a c-section.
On the night before my scheduled c-section I went into labor. So far the worst thing I was experiencing was the inserting of the cathyter.
Everything was fine, they delivered baby Ethan (all 10.5 pounds of him) and then I remember all the alarms b...
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Posted On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 by Christine
It took me 2 years to get pregnant, but when I finally did, everything was going perfectly. I had no morning sickness, everything was great. I LOVED being pregnant. A few weeks into my 2nd trimester, we moved to another state. I found a new ob/gyn, things, still, were going perfectly. The only slight problem I has was that my sugar level came back slightly higher than my doctor liked, but it was not high enough to cause gestational diabetes. At 30 weeks, we moved back to NM, and I returned...
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Posted On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 by
I was 17 years old and found out that I was going to have a baby. I had no clue what all to expect from my pregnancy or about preeclampsia. I was very young at the time and did not expect anything to go wrong with my pregnancy.
Everything went well until I was 33 weeks along. I had no idea what preeclampsia was or that I had it. I started vomiting daily and could not even hold down crackers or water. I called my OBGYN and they stated some people have stomach illness throughout the e...
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Posted On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 by Melissa
I had my first baby 6 months ago. During about the 31st week of my pregnancy I developed HELLP. Being my first pregnancy, I thought the symptoms I had were normal. I did not show protein in my urine and my blood pressure was ok during my prenatal visits. I told my doctor at my 32 week checkup that I had not been able to work the past week, I was too tired and I had a slight pain in my upper chest. I thought it was the baby pressing on my lungs. My blood pressure was 140/80, not terrible, bu...
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Posted On Monday, January 13, 2003 by
I was about 30 weeks pregnant when I felt that my son's movement was getting very quiet. He had gone 24 hours without kicking me or moving around. I didn't feel any symptons at all, no headache or dizziness. However, my instincts told me to check with my doctor and sure enough, my blood pressure had shot up to 170/110. I was hospitalised immediately and my doc tried to bring my pressure down but to no avail. 2 days later, I underwent emergency c-section. The danger about all this is, I fel...
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Posted On Saturday, January 11, 2003 by Anne
I was having what I thought was a "normal" first pregnancy. In my second trimester I began having flu-like symptoms, bad headaches, and swelling. When I went to the dr for my 28th week apt. she said my bp was a "little high" but it was "nothing to worry about." The dr told me to "watch my sodium intake" and I should be "fine." A couple of weeks went by and I was feeling worse, all the while I am taking in very low sodium amounts. Then, one night I woke up to go to the bathroom, looked in th...
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Posted On Friday, January 03, 2003 by
My miracle baby........
I found out I was pregnant for the first time at age 39 in January of 2002. I saw my OB/GYN immediately and was confirmed to be 5 weeks along. I've been on blood pressure medication since age 28 (the worst was 180/90) so my doctor told me I would be seeing him on a monthly basis until my 3rd trimester. I experienced the normal nausea (but no vomiting) all day long and I was eating constantly. In fact I gained 7lbs by the end of February and by then my pressure was some...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 31, 2002 by Crystal
I was about 28 weeks when I started feeling strange. I was swollen in my hands and feet. I couldn't even make a fist because my hands were so puffy. I also felt very achy all over. I called my OB. She said, "It doesn't sound like a pregnancy-related condition. Go see your primary care physician." I went in the next day. The doctor said, "Your blood pressure seems a little high. What is it normally?" I had no idea. I didn't think that it was something I needed to know, plus whenever I ...
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Posted On Monday, December 16, 2002 by
At 30 weeks I began to notice that my ankles were swollen and my toes felt as though they would pop off of my feet! I had the nurse at my work take my bp and it was 150/90! My bp had always been 120/60. I called my doc and he had me come in. My bp was still high but no protein in my urine. I was put on aldomet for my high bp. He said that there was no reason for concern at this point and that he would see me next week when I came in for my routine check up. Over the next week I felt fine ...
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Posted On Monday, December 16, 2002 by Maria
HI, MY NAME IS SARA. I AM THE MOTHER OF A HEALTHY 9LB 13OZ BABY BOY NAMED ISAIAH. HERE IS MY STORY: I CAME VERY CLOSE TO LOSING MY LIFE IN THE HOSPITAL THAT DAY JULY 23, 2001. MY PHYSICIANS DID NOT THINK MY ILLNESS WAS SEVERE ENOUGH TO HOSPITALIZE ME EARLIER. I GAINED 25 POUNDS IN A MATTER OF 2 WEEKS. MY ENTIRE LEG, RIGHT AND LEFT HAD BALOONED TO THE SIZE OF LARGE WATERMELONS. I COULD BARELY WALK. MY SKIN WAS TIGHT AN ITCHY AND VERY PAINFULL. I COULD'NT SLEEP ON MY BACK BECAUSE I COULD F...
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Posted On Sunday, December 15, 2002 by
My pregnancy was quite uneventful, and I felt very
lucky. I did not experience any morning sickness,
nor did I gain a lot of weight (12 pounds during the
first five months). I had excellent prenatal care. All
of my prenatal visits were routine. My blood
pressure was normal, and there was never protein
in my urine. I exercised frequently, but not
excessively; walking and yoga were staples of my
program. There was absolutely nothing that
foreshadowed the dangers that would ...
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Posted On Friday, December 13, 2002 by Kim
What's strange about my story is how often it has occurred in my family. Three of five aunts, my mother and me so far. (I'm the oldest of three daughters)
My first time around with PE was in August 1999. I was 24 weeks and was having general difficulty with the care I had been receiving... You know, the "you can only come in once per month" type of thing. I was lucky enough get the attention of a Nurse Practitioner and she set me up with a different OB. By the time I met with the OB, two days l...
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Posted On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 by
I was 33 years old and having our first child. I did everything that I was suppose to do and more. On Thanksgiving weekend in 2000 i started getting a severe cramp in my neck. I couldn't move it. And my legs began to swell. Someone told me not worry, i was only in my 22nd week of gestation. So i didn't. I did call my Dr. and he put me on med's thinking that it would be an infection of some sort. Two weeks later I went to see him and he had me put into the hosp. I was only 24 weeks along...
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Posted On Tuesday, December 03, 2002 by Nancy
As a registered nurse I knew that there could be problems during pregnancy but I am not a midwife so didn't know much about pre-eclampsia.
I had been sick with hyperemersis for 13 weeks and didn't think anything else could be that bad. Wrong!
At about 26 weeks my obstretrican told me I had pre-eclampsia and to take things easy. By 31 weeks I could no longer work and was told to go to bed for the rest of the pregnancy. I was scared and depressed and had no one to turn to.
At the end of m...
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Posted On Sunday, December 01, 2002 by
During one prenatal visit, my OB decided I was beginning to show symptoms of preeclampsia. She prescribed bed rest. During the next month, my blood pressure remained at a decent level but I continued to gain water weight. At another visit, my blood pressure had skyrocketed to 160/110. They sent me straight to labor and delivery. I was 36 weeks at the time.
My husband and I walked over to Labor and Delivery. They induced labor and my son was born just two short hours later. He did reall...
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Posted On Monday, November 25, 2002 by Antoinette
I was 29 years old and was pregnant with my first child a girl by the name of Rebekah Danielle Ulven. I had a easy pregnancy starting out never had any morning sickness on the third month I could no longer wear my wedding rings. I was being seen monthly and was having no problems until about the end of my fifth month, I started swelling and developed edema which later became severe preclampsia. I gained 63 pounds of fluid in my body over the three week period of my 5th month and 6 month. I went ...
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Posted On Sunday, November 24, 2002 by
It's so hard for me to write what I need to write. I am continually drawn back to this site to read stories from women who have shared in this horrible experience. Some days it seems unbearable. It's been almost three months since I walked in the Dr's office for what I thought was going to be a normal visit. It was anything but that. I knew the moment I stepped on the scale that something was wrong. I knew I had been swelling a bit, actually quite a bit. I figured it was normal. But I ha...
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Posted On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 by Jenny
About a month before our first wedding
anniversary, my husband and I were overjoyed to
find we were expecting our first child. We had
experienced a miscarriage earlier that year, and
were cautiously optimistic about this pregnancy.
We decided to wait until I was 12 weeks to
announce the good news to our friends and family.
My pregnancy was rough from the start. The first
four months were constant morning sickness, and
I lost over ten pounds. At 20 weeks (on
Halloween!) w...
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