Pre-eclampsia, did you get it again?

[Betheney]

I get my scans at an expensive private place. They have a big LCD screen in front of thw bed so I can watch. Then at the end you get a DVD with a video of the entire scan on it.

My first pregnancy was picture perfecr so my second pregnancy may have less recorded readings because I may have missed a few appointments... ooops

 

[sethsmummy]

oh dear oops lol.

awww that sounds fab at your scan place hun. This one im going to you cant get a dvd till at least 28 weeks and i wont be going back lol. xx

 

[RcdM]

This is the one I have https://www.amazon.com/Omron-Series...ef=sr_1_7?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1407953427&sr=1-7

I don't think you can really do it wrong. It's super easy to set up. I brought it in to my dr appt in the first tri and they took my bp and then we took it with mine to make sure it was coming back with about the same reading. You basically just want to put it about an inch above your elbow/where your arm bends, about heart level. And make sure you're sitting with your feet on the ground and arms to your side or in your lap. I usually do my right arm, the nurse seems to do right or left so I don't think it matters that much which arm you do.

At the MFM place where they do the full on growth ultrasounds, they have a screen on the wall so you can see everything they're doing. But at my dr's office, she just has a small portable u/s machine so you can't see it unless she turns it to show you. But she only seems to do u/s in first tri and anything after that has to be ordered and you have to go up to MFM. I wanted to go get a private 3D scan but we didn't do one with dd (she came before we had a chance!) and I also really want to get maternity photos done so I think I'd rather save my money for that instead. The private 3D ones are kind of expensive. They do all this extra stuff like record on a DVD set to music, etc. and I don't need all that. I wish I could just go somewhere to get like 10 minutes of viewing and a few 3D pictures.

 

[sethsmummy]

That's exactly what ill be getting, 10 minutes viewing and 8 pics. For £70 xx

 

[Betheney]

Omron BP machines are really good. Although the one on Amazon looks diff to the ones here in Aus and here you'd spend at least $100.

When my BP was bad the nurse taking my reading she'd take it once then frown then take it again. Then she'd say "maybe I'll try the other arm" then "don't talk this time" then "let's try it with you lying down" lol sometimes when my diastolic was like 112 they wouldn't even want to tell me but I would read the chart when they left.

The 12w scan is a full and involved scan that goes for about 30 mins that's why it's at a proper scan place. It's the scan that's combined with your bloods done at 10weeks to get your risk of downs and other birth defects. Although this year I'm declining the bloods. Just seems a waste of $100 when it wouldn't change any decisions we'd make. But I'm going ahead with the scan because 20weeks is too long to wait to see the baby for the first time. Because my scan place is a rather expensive place at the end of the scan if the baby is in a good position they'll do 5 mins of a 3D for you. So I always get just a couple of 3D shots

 

[Betheney]

Hey girls.

I thought you would all be interested in a test they carried out st my 12week scsn today. Routinely they are now also screening for your risk of PE. They fill out a questionaire on your previous pregnancies and health and family history your previous birthed babies gestation and weight. Then they also takr 2 separate reading from both arms and they also measure thr arteries in your uterus during the ultrasound to combine it all together to give you a % of your chances of getting preeclampsia again. The tech said even if I don't have PE right now the arteries can still indicate whether it's bound to happen! Isn't that insane?! I'd never heard of anyone doing this screening.

Also scan wemt well baby bouncing around like a lunatic but my downs reading came back high risk. For now I've declined further testing. Maybe after 20week scan we'll see.

 

[RcdM]

Hmm that is definitely interesting! I've never heard of that screening either, I'm interested to know how that might help people in the future.

Sethsmummy, did you have your gender scan?

 

[sethsmummy]

Sorry i totally forgot! My brain went straight from baby scan to christmas shopping lol so its fried.

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[RcdM]

Aww yay congrats!!! How exciting! And I love the name Rohan.

And don't scare me, I don't dare think about Christmas shopping yet!!

 

[sethsmummy]

hehe ive got a lot of the boys stuff already (well when its delivered lol). I have to be prepared this year.. ds1's bday in december then xmas, then baby and my mums bday not long after xmas. xx

 

[rbourre]

I just found this thread. My daughter was born at 29+5 because of pre-eclampsia. My blood pressure was so high that 1200 mg of Labetalol and 1 Adalat tablet a day would not bring it down. I was on hospital bed rest until they found the placenta was starting to detach and decided it was time to deliver. My little girl was 2 lbs 2 oz and spent 26 days in the NICU and 36 days in the special care nursery at my local hospital.

I am now just about 32 weeks with baby #2 and it's a boy. This pregnancy has been going so well. I had a bit of high blood pressure at the beginning of my pregnancy after I was taken off my bp meds at 5 weeks when I found out I am pregnant. My OB put me on baby aspirin and between that and eating healthier, my bp has been right around 120/80. I had a growth scan and OB appointment yesterday and baby is measuring at 4 lbs 5 oz, fundal height of 32 cm. I can't believe how big he was at 31+5, that's more than twice my daughters birth weight. She was only 5 lbs 10 oz on my due date.

 

[Betheney]

Sounds all too familiar. 1600mg of labetalol and 60mg of nafedapine and they went "screw it we're inducing you" I was at 33 weeks. However it was only a week after I was diagnosed with PE and so a week of constantly increasing my meds before they gave up.

The fact your current pregnancy is going well gives me hope!

 

[sethsmummy]

welcome Rbourre. Congratulations on your pregnancy.. I am glad to hear that it is going better this time round hun

 

[W8ing4ours]

I've been a part of this thread a few times in the past, haven't been around for awhile though. Wondering if anyone here had pre-e with first 2 pregnancies , and not a third? I know it's very possible to not get it with a second pregnancy, but I don't think chances are very good if you've had it twice....

Not sure why I'm asking, I almost lost my son 6 months ago, I'm just mourning the children I have in a petry dish in a cyropreservation lab in minneapolis, my children were IVF babies and I still have 3 embryos left...

 

[Betheney]

I had it in my second but not the first which has like a 1% chance of happening if it's the same father which it was OR I had it in the first undiagnosed, they did tell me during labour which my first that my BP was very high.

so I'm either 3rd baby and potentially 3rd PE baby or I'm 3rd.baby and . potentially 2nd PE baby.

stay tuned and I'll let you know how it goes. Lol

 

[sethsmummy]

I've been a part of this thread a few times in the past, haven't been around for awhile though. Wondering if anyone here had pre-e with first 2 pregnancies , and not a third? I know it's very possible to not get it with a second pregnancy, but I don't think chances are very good if you've had it twice....

Not sure why I'm asking, I almost lost my son 6 months ago, I'm just mourning the children I have in a petry dish in a cyropreservation lab in minneapolis, my children were IVF babies and I still have 3 embryos left...

aww hun im so sorry you have had such a hard journey

I had pre-e with 1st... high bp with second.. never got classed as pre-e but bp was high, protein in urine and i was having liver function tests every few days near the end. So far so good thing time but I've not had my BP done in a few weeks. xx

 

[sethsmummy]

how are we doing ladies? xx

 

[rbourre]

I'm over 33 weeks now, BP still great. 119/82 this morning. Couldn't be happier with how well this pregnancy is going.

 

[sethsmummy]

thats fantastic hun! well done xx

 

[ttc126]

My bp was 88/54 today...lol so i guess no worries here for me!

Sethsmummy how are you?