In January 2024 I had my daughter. We had found out that we were expecting a couple weeks after our wedding, on our way home from our honeymoon in Italy, the morning sickness began. From that point on, I threw up five times a day every day, the entire pregnancy. I had to go to the hospital once a week for fluids, ate very little, and gained 80lbs. When I got pregnant I was 100lbs and very healthy so it was a big change. I had no signs of preeclampsia until I when into labor at 40+0 weeks. My blood pressure was in the mid 200s and my protein was off the charts. We live in a very rural area with a small hospital so they immediately transfer me 2+ hours away to a major hospital. I had an emergency c section. It caused heart damage and a hard recovery, but baby was great.

I got pregnant with our second in April of 2025 and had an amazing pregnancy with no complications until 38 weeks when checked labs and found that my liver was not working and I was severely anemic along with protein in urine. However my blood pressure was great. I had 3 iron infusion but my numbers remained the exact same. I went into labor trying for a vbac on 39+6 and after 8 hours and everything going great I started to push. A long 4 hours later I spiked a fever and my blood pressure started to rise, they ran labs and my platelets were in the single digits. We decided to do a c section and my placenta had been so infected it was full of puss and the baby was covered in it. After the surgery they ran more labs that showed preeclampsia getting worse along with the infection. After transferring to the larger hospital again, they were able to get things under control and I went home. With everything, baby was thriving and I am so thankful.