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Posted On Thursday, April 01, 2010 by
I had a pretty good pregnancy up to about the last month that I was pregnant. My blood pressure was pretty high and the nurse decided to take it again once or twice. She was just going to write the second or third numbers down because those were better. I stopped her because I remembered my blood pressure had been a little high at the appointment before that and she had done the same thing. So they started monitoring me weekly for a few weeks. Finally, I was told to...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 31, 2010 by
Well, I was a 25 year old first time mom. I went through my first three months of pregnancy normal just as anyone. My due date was March 28th. By the time I was four months pregnant I started to notice a ton of swelling, even causing me to have to work less. The doctors didn't seem to think it was anything because my blood pressure wasn't going up. ...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 31, 2010 by
I am a mother who suffered from Preeclampsia with all three of my children. Malaysia born May 21, 2005 was born at 32 weeks gestation. I was 105 lbs when I first got pregnant. By the 29th week I was 160 lbs and bp was 150/100. I went back the next week and was 180 lbs, my feet were swollen to the point that I could not wear my regular shoe. My feet felt like they weighed 10 lbs each. I felt dizzy and had severe migraines every day. The doctor told me to stay off of my feet and ordered me to c...
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Posted On Sunday, March 28, 2010 by
I've always dreamed of the day I would have my first child. I envisioned everyone waiting with anticipation in the waiting room...my husband by my side seeing the miracle of birth and then telling everyone "It's a girl" or "It's a boy". Well, it basically didn't go the way "I" had planned. Here is my story:First I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Kim. I have been married to my best friend for over 7 years. I have a beautiful 4 year old daughter and I'm a NICU nurse at a level III h...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by
It was January 5, 2009. I was 26 weeks pregnant and I had just had a blah day at work. I bought something quick and easy to make for dinner, went home and took a nap. Around 6:30 pm, right after I put dinner in the oven, the pains started. I would have thought nothing of them, it was just a weird feeling at top of my abdomen, but something told me that it wasn't good. I made a deal that if they didn't go away within ten minutes, I would call my husband and tell him ...
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Posted On Saturday, March 20, 2010 by Noel
I had a wonderful, easy first pregnancy until around thirty weeks when I started having episodes of racing heartbeat and shortness of breath. I also started swelling quite a bit. My OB said my symptoms were just normal pregnancy stuff and that I shouldn't worry. At my 34 week checkup, I had gained ten pounds in two weeks. My blood pressure was up a little, but "not enough to be concerning." However, because I was obviously having trouble breathing, he gave me samples of an allergy medicine an...
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Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2010 by Jamie
Our first baby was born in April 2008. I had gestational diabetes with him, and he was born 2 weeks early. Because of the diabetes we had several complications. He had a feeding tube due to being very dehydrated. His blood sugar was very low, and he had no energy to nurse. He actually never did breastfeed and several of the nurses felt that our due date was wrong, and that he was actually more like a month early. So, I was prepared in my second pregnancy in March 2009 to have dia...
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Posted On Friday, March 12, 2010 by Victoria
I had successfully delivered my first child in 2005, with a long and incredibly strenuous labor and vacuum assistance in a Scandinavian country. I was 24. I had learned of preeclampsia while studying for my degree in Dietetics a few years earlier and knew the facts. In my first pregnancy I had low blood pressure, so much so that I lost consciousness a few times. I thought that would make me one of the last people to ever come down with preeclampsia. I was wrong...In 2006...
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Posted On Thursday, March 11, 2010 by Jessica
I found out I had HELLP Syndrome at 34 weeks pregnant with my first child. I was late to my doctor's appointment that day due to Upper Gastric Pain being so intense. My boyfriend took me to my doctor's office where they took one look at me and walked me right over to the hospital which happened to be next door. I was so severe I had 4 nurses assigned to me, the on-call doctor for my office, 2 other doctors from my office and 2 anesthesiologists before, during and after the delivery. I was so...
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Posted On Thursday, March 11, 2010 by Mary
I am a first time Mom to a beautiful baby boy named Tyler who is now 10.5 months old.At about 20 weeks into my pregnancy my blood pressure began to creep up a little bit, but it was nothing alarming. My doctor kept an eye on it and eventually tested me for preeclampsia (24 hour urine), which came back negative.About 6 months into my pregnancy, my feet started to swell and the blood pressure was still an issue, though my doctor did not put me on bed rest or put me on any medi...
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Posted On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 by Annie
My story is one that I wish I had read when I visited this website after receiving my diagnosis of preeclampsia. I was 31 weeks pregnant with my third child and was found to have protein in my urine and high blood pressure. I had no overt symptoms and was very lucky to have caught this due to good prenatal care. I was immediately placed on bed rest and began 6 weeks of complete couch and bed time. My only trips out of the house were to attend four wee...
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Posted On Monday, March 08, 2010 by Desirae
I got pregnant by accident when I was 20 years old. After the shock of being pregnant everyone was all excited. I decided to move to my parents house, take a semester off after the baby came, and finish school after that since I only had 2 semester of college left. I knew about Preeclampsia but just as a term that doctors through out at me since I was high risk. Never thought it would happen, or that anyone has to go through this. At 24 weeks, I had a bad chest pain. Went to...
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Posted On Monday, March 08, 2010 by Julie
What I am going to describe is my first and only pregnancy so far. Nathan was not planned, but that is not important!From around 5 to 6 weeks pregnant I could not stop being sick. At this point I did not realize I was pregnant; I was used to my period being a week or so late every so often. It was the bane of my life being so sick! I would have to take a couple of days off work from my job as a nurse to lay on the settee with a bucket near me. The sickness weakened me. Although I vomited...
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Posted On Monday, March 08, 2010 by Diana
My husband and I were married in June 2006. Right before our two year anniversary we found out I was pregnant. We were so excited as it would be the first grandchild on his family's side and the third on my side. I was 27 years old, 5'1, 105lbs and the spitting image of health. I thought I'd sail right through this pregnancy.All my OB appointments went great and I never had any issues or cause for concern. I was 30 weeks along when I got up one morning to go to work. All wa...
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Posted On Wednesday, March 03, 2010 by Whitney
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Posted On Tuesday, March 02, 2010 by Stephanie
I had my first child at 21 very young and did not know a whole lot about anything. One week before I had my daughter they told me I had preeclampsia, so I went on bed rest for a few days then they induced me. Baby and I were both pretty sick. My Blood pressure during delivery was very high. (I don't remember all the facts.) My daughter is now 10 and I am very thankful and grateful to have her.Then 2 years ago my husband and I decided to have another child. Somehow I had go...
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Posted On Tuesday, March 02, 2010 by
We had just moved into our newly built house a couple of months before my baby shower. My best friend was giving me a baby shower for our third son. I had gotten rid of the smaller clothes from our previous boys, so she decided to give me a shower at my house so that we could just show off the house and have a quaint shower. I had hired a couple of women to help paint a design in the nursery, so they were finishing up on a Saturday morning. One of the toilets in the bathrooms wasn't workin...
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Posted On Tuesday, March 02, 2010 by Regina
My story begins on August 4, 1997. I was 32 weeks along with my first pregnancy. I woke up that morning with severe abdominal pain and I had chest pain. We called my doctor and I went over to their office right away. My blood pressure was skyrocketing and I was spilling protein in my urine. The doctor sent us to the hospital immediately! As soon as we got to the hospital, they started hooking me up to all of the monitors and my blood pressure was 188/118. They immediately started me on M...
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Posted On Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Adrienne
I wasn't diagnosed with HELLP Syndrome until after I insisted that there was something wrong and lab work was done. (I had chest pain and did not feel good at all. I also had blood in my urine.) My counts were so low that I was called by my doctor directly and ordered to immediately go to the hospital.I had to be put under general anesthesia and was even thanked by my doctor for being so persistent or I/our son would have died! We had a doctor before that miss this and ...
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Posted On Sunday, February 21, 2010 by Jennifer
My first pregnancy started out an uncomplicated one. No morning sickness, very little cravings and very little weight gain. This was up until my 3rd trimester - once I hit 30 weeks, it all changed. I started to have some problems with my blood pressure. It was getting way too high for this point in my pregnancy. It had been normal, in the 120's/130's over 70's/80's, and then in started raising to the high 140's/low 150's over high 80's/low 90's. My obstetrician of course caught it right away, an...
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