Welcome to the forums, and congratulations of the safe arrival of your little boy. I thought that I'd give you a little "tour" of what we have here so that as things progress you'll know who to talk to, * so to type :) *. We have a "preemies forum" where you'll find lots of folk who are very expert ...

I've been where you are with my last pregnancy, "disturbingly" healthy for most of it! Despite this, I still worried ALL THE TIME! Looking back, I wonder why my employers even paid me because I was surely phoning-it-in! I also managed to frighten myself with some symptoms reminiscent of my previous ...

One answer that you won't love is that you are beginning to see "labile" pressures. Essentially, the mechanisms holding your BP under control are beginning to fail somewhat and consequently you are starting to observe occasional "spikes". Should your disease continue to progress, you'll find that yo...

We've just gone through 4 rounds of infection in our house, all the kids and me. Everyone presented the same, fever and sore throat. It wasn't until I had to pick the last kid up from the school nurse that it dawned on me that perhaps a throat swab was in order.... yeah, Strep. Obviously we all had ...

I think that she's far enough away from her preeclampsia/HELLP experience that her elevated liver enzymes can't be a direct result of it, especially if they went back down after she was sick. I think it does warrant serious followup though. Has she asked her OB for some advice re: an appropriate ref...

It is possible that I managed to "sticky" that post for you Angie (or maybe not, in which case the mods taking care of the forum will sort it out). We're only just beginning to figure out where the "buttons" are and how to push them LOL! Clearly we're at a re-grouping phase and I assure you that we ...

About 10% of pregnancies are affected by hypertensive issues, about 5% will be complicated by preeclampsia. About 1% end up with HELLP syndrome. Not as uncommon as people think but I've met many OBs who had relatively small, low risk practices, who considered it extremely rare. I was fortunate that ...

While preeclampsia doesn't appear to trigger future autoimmune diseases, it tends to foreshadow them. The interaction between your immune system and pregnancy is complicated to begin with because the body has to accept a "non-self" component (aka the baby and placenta) for the nine months of pregnan...

Did you experience a lot of Braxton-HIcks contractions in your previous pregnancy? I was a big B&H girl and they came earlier and earlier with each pregnancy. I would swear that I could feel them as early as 18 weeks last time around... These usually aren't anything much to worry about if they aren'...

Yes, I think that it can be a "once-off", in the sense that each pregnancy is unique so you could end up with some random combination of genetics and/or implanation that hands you a winning ticket in the preeclampsia lottery. I've had three babies and delivered them at the exact same gestational age...