Pre-eclampsia, did you get it again?

[RcdM]

I got sent home too bp was totally fine, no protein, baby doing fine. Kicking like a maniac actually. I agree rbourre, I'm ready to meet my little boy but would be happier if he could wait just a bit longer.

They don't know what caused the weird vision and they have no explanation for it. So they said just be aware and if anything comes back again to go back in.

 

[ttc126]

What a relief rcdm!

Do you think you maybe were getting a migraine? My mom gets them with vision disturbance but no headache....

 

[sethsmummy]

im glad your both ok! FX those little ones stay put for a couple extra days and then decide to come on their own. xxx

 

[RcdM]

I don't know ttc, I've never really had a migrane. Someone else said maybe it was low blood sugar but I didn't do anything differently than any other day, so who knows.

This is my last weekend being pregnant! 38 weeks today!

 

[rbourre]

I don't know ttc, I've never really had a migrane. Someone else said maybe it was low blood sugar but I didn't do anything differently than any other day, so who knows.

This is my last weekend being pregnant! 38 weeks today!

I'm jealous. I'm hoping it's my last weekend being pregnant too. I would have liked him to stay in until at least 38-39 weeks, but with my blood pressure rising I would rather him come on his own before my next doctor's appointment (a week from today). Otherwise, I will probably be sent to L&D to be monitored again and possibly induced. I will be 37 weeks tomorrow and that is a huge after a 29 weeker so I won't mind if he comes on his own now.

 

[sethsmummy]

oooo heres hoping this is both your last weekends being pregnant and we get to see some baby pictures next week excited!!

happy 37 and 38 weeks : D

 

[rbourre]

So happy to officially be 37 weeks. My blood pressure was perfect last night, 118/80. It's weird that it can be 148/101 one day and 118/80 the next.

 

[sethsmummy]

There are so may things that can effect your BP. fx it stays that way hun xx

 

[smiller1404]

With my first son.. I developed preE at 38 weeks, was induced and after 36 hrs and not making it past 5 cm they did a c section. By the time they did the section, my platelets were beginning to change but everything was fine once baby was born.
I just has my second baby August 2nd, 6 weeks early. At 27 weeks my blood pressure randomly spiked and my hands went numb. No proteins in my pee and my blood pressure was fine when they checked it again. I had random spikes from then on. I left work around July 20th and took a trip to the zoo. I noticed I was swelling a bit more and when I got home, i had a pee test done and sure enough there was proteins.. I waited until I started to feel sick before I went to the hospital (about a week later). When I showed up, things weren't that bad. Proteins in pee and a little bit elevated pressure. They kept me, 3 days later I took my 'episode'.

I started to bleed as my pressure sky rocketed and my placenta began to detach. My brain instantly swelled and I've never felt soo much pain in my life. My vision went and so did my kidneys. After baby was out things got even worse.. They had a hard time controlling the bleeding and on top of that my blood was breaking itself down. I had under half the amount of blood I should has in my body, my temp dropped below 30, I was the next best thing to being dead. Needless to say, I was in icu for 4-5 days. I had 6 blood transfusions, had 13 plasmapheresis treatments thru my arms and a giant tube in my neck. They were going to start my on dialysis but my kidney function came back the day before they were going to start.
It's been 9 weeks and everything is pretty well back to normal. My eye sight is still a little off as swelling left me with astigmatisms in both eyes so now I need glasses.

Luckily I survived and there was nothing wrong with the baby except he was early. Best of luck and I pray no one has to go thru what I did !!

 

[PeaceLoveBaby]

My goodness!! I have been watching my bp very closely. Sorry you went through that. Thank god you're ok.

I've been contracting a little and bp is midline..but i don't have any protein pee sticks. are those OTC?

How is baby doing? I'm curious cuz I know mine will be early as well

 

[rbourre]

My blood pressure has started to rise but no pre-eclampsia has been diagnosed yet. The doctor put me on 200 mg of Labetalol a day to see if it helps and I go back on Wednesday. If it's still high by Wednesday, it seems like I will be induced. If it goes down, he will let me go to 40 weeks but not beyond that. I have maximum 2 more weeks of being pregnant, but I am really hoping baby comes on his own...this weekend sounds perfect. I'd love to go into labour this weekend because then my husband can be home with us until the 14th and I won't have to worry about being induced at all.

 

[smiller1404]

Luckily we are okay and the baby is doing great ! He's 8 pounds and 9 weeks today ! The pee sticks were from someone I knew at the hospital. I knew what to look for after last time. I had Braxton hicks often but when everything happened, my stomach started to get tight a couple hours before. It was like a real bloaty feeling, and it just got tighter to the point I felt like I was going to explode. Then when I sat down I had a big gush of blood... Luckily I was already in the hospital. They said if I was home, we probably wouldn't have made it.
Best of luck !! Let baby cook as long as possible! I felt horrible looking at this little tiny baby knowing he needed to cook longer but he couldn't because my body is so messed up

 

[PeaceLoveBaby]

Oh I am hoping he will cook longer! We are aiming for 36 weeks. But depends on preE and my heart function in coming weeks. Fingers crossed. I'm so glad baby is doing ok for you! The things we survive huh!

 

[sethsmummy]

With my first son.. I developed preE at 38 weeks, was induced and after 36 hrs and not making it past 5 cm they did a c section. By the time they did the section, my platelets were beginning to change but everything was fine once baby was born.
I just has my second baby August 2nd, 6 weeks early. At 27 weeks my blood pressure randomly spiked and my hands went numb. No proteins in my pee and my blood pressure was fine when they checked it again. I had random spikes from then on. I left work around July 20th and took a trip to the zoo. I noticed I was swelling a bit more and when I got home, i had a pee test done and sure enough there was proteins.. I waited until I started to feel sick before I went to the hospital (about a week later). When I showed up, things weren't that bad. Proteins in pee and a little bit elevated pressure. They kept me, 3 days later I took my 'episode'.

I started to bleed as my pressure sky rocketed and my placenta began to detach. My brain instantly swelled and I've never felt soo much pain in my life. My vision went and so did my kidneys. After baby was out things got even worse.. They had a hard time controlling the bleeding and on top of that my blood was breaking itself down. I had under half the amount of blood I should has in my body, my temp dropped below 30, I was the next best thing to being dead. Needless to say, I was in icu for 4-5 days. I had 6 blood transfusions, had 13 plasmapheresis treatments thru my arms and a giant tube in my neck. They were going to start my on dialysis but my kidney function came back the day before they were going to start.
It's been 9 weeks and everything is pretty well back to normal. My eye sight is still a little off as swelling left me with astigmatisms in both eyes so now I need glasses.

Luckily I survived and there was nothing wrong with the baby except he was early. Best of luck and I pray no one has to go thru what I did !!

oh my gosh hun so sorry you had to go through that but i am glad you and baby are now fine

My goodness!! I have been watching my bp very closely. Sorry you went through that. Thank god you're ok.

I've been contracting a little and bp is midline..but i don't have any protein pee sticks. are those OTC?

How is baby doing? I'm curious cuz I know mine will be early as well

you can get them on amazon/ebay hun. or some chemists online... do a google search for 10 perameter urine tests. I have some as i like to watch my own too.

My blood pressure has started to rise but no pre-eclampsia has been diagnosed yet. The doctor put me on 200 mg of Labetalol a day to see if it helps and I go back on Wednesday. If it's still high by Wednesday, it seems like I will be induced. If it goes down, he will let me go to 40 weeks but not beyond that. I have maximum 2 more weeks of being pregnant, but I am really hoping baby comes on his own...this weekend sounds perfect. I'd love to go into labour this weekend because then my husband can be home with us until the 14th and I won't have to worry about being induced at all.

oo i hope it stays under control with the tablets hun.


I wonder how RdCm got on! I really hope we get to see some gorgeous pics and that baby arrived safely yesterday : D

AFM - i had the midwife on thursday and my bp is great sat at 130/74 + protein but there always has been so far this pregnancy. x

 

[Betheney]

Hey girls.

I've been thinking about PE. I'm sure some.of you have read that it may have something to do with allergens and your partners sperm. Women who have been exposed to a males sperm a lot and over an extensive period of time have a lower chance of getting PE as their body has grown used to their partners sperm

I found this really interesting because I have long suspected I'm allergic to my husbands sperm. When we started having sex 10 years ago I realised after the deed was done I would get an intensely horrible burn internally but no problem if he didn't finish. When we switched to condoms I had no problems at all and I'd forget all about the burning until years later we'd have unprotected sex and I'd deal with it all over again.

Since then we've been having unprotected sex for so many years it no longer burns. But I wonder if at the heart of it, this was a contributing factor to getting PE with my son.

 

[Beadette]

Hi girls. I developed severe preeclampsia with my first pregnancy but was asymptomatic. It was only discovered at a routine MW appointment at 32 weeks and I was hospitalised that day in high dependency and was allowed no visitors. They could not believe I had not started convulsing already by that point as blood pressure was sky high and 4+ protein in urine. They managed to stabilise me for 24 hours using IV labetelol, magnesium sulphate but unfortunately my body was not playing ball so had emergency CS at 33 weeks. With that pregnancy I had taken aspirin for first 20 weeks as a precaution after 2 previous mmc's. Consultant said if I hadn't or if I'd have stopped taking them sooner then my boy might not have been here. My blood pressure remained high after delivery and I was kept in hospital for a fortnight. I was released on labetelol and nifidipene for a few months after. Was told bp meant I could not go back on pill. That was 3.5 years ago.

Found out last week I'm pregnant again. Booked doctors appointment for following day and they had me go for bloods next day and have booked me in for ultra early MW appointment tomorrow to get consultant referral sorted and any meds. Have been taking aspirin again and high dose folic off my own back. Not sure what else they'll give me if anything. Doc took bp which was lowest since having pre-e at 110/80.

Wish me luck xxx

 

[Anniebobs]

Hi can I join you? I've read through most of the recent posts and was excited to read some of you are almost ready to have baby and haven't developed pre-e again.

My pre-e was picked up at 36 weeks (though my bp had bee rising since 32 weeks, just wasn't ridiculously high) and I was kept in hospital for a week while they tried to control bp using labetalol and nifedipine. Had a scan and DD was found to be on the 2nd percentile, placenta had started failing so I was induced at 37 weeks and she was born on my husbands birthday (love that!) weighing 5lb4 but perfectly healthy. After birth my bp was out of control so a lot of it is very hazy to me, I remember waking up with an iv but I'm not sure what I was given. Bp was high the following few weeks but by 6 weeks I was able to come off the nifedipine.

This time I've been on aspirin since my bfp, due to having 3 mcs since DD then my consultant said it also could help prevent repeat pre-e. I recently came off it though because I'd read one of the side effects was heartburn and mine has been horrendous the past few weeks! I've developed GD this time so think I'll have a bigger baby, though so far it's been diet managed.

Anyway I've recently been having a few headaches which has reminded me of last time. Really hoping it doesn't happen this time, I couldn't imagine a long hospital stay with DD at home.

 

[rbourre]

Hi girls. I developed severe preeclampsia with my first pregnancy but was asymptomatic. It was only discovered at a routine MW appointment at 32 weeks and I was hospitalised that day in high dependency and was allowed no visitors. They could not believe I had not started convulsing already by that point as blood pressure was sky high and 4+ protein in urine. They managed to stabilise me for 24 hours using IV labetelol, magnesium sulphate but unfortunately my body was not playing ball so had emergency CS at 33 weeks. With that pregnancy I had taken aspirin for first 20 weeks as a precaution after 2 previous mmc's. Consultant said if I hadn't or if I'd have stopped taking them sooner then my boy might not have been here. My blood pressure remained high after delivery and I was kept in hospital for a fortnight. I was released on labetelol and nifidipene for a few months after. Was told bp meant I could not go back on pill. That was 3.5 years ago.

Found out last week I'm pregnant again. Booked doctors appointment for following day and they had me go for bloods next day and have booked me in for ultra early MW appointment tomorrow to get consultant referral sorted and any meds. Have been taking aspirin again and high dose folic off my own back. Not sure what else they'll give me if anything. Doc took bp which was lowest since having pre-e at 110/80.

Wish me luck xxx

Good luck, I hope everything goes smoothly for you. I was also told I couldn't go on the pill because of my blood pressure. My blood pressure went way down with this pregnancy and until last week remained right around 120/80.

Hi can I join you? I've read through most of the recent posts and was excited to read some of you are almost ready to have baby and haven't developed pre-e again.

My pre-e was picked up at 36 weeks (though my bp had bee rising since 32 weeks, just wasn't ridiculously high) and I was kept in hospital for a week while they tried to control bp using labetalol and nifedipine. Had a scan and DD was found to be on the 2nd percentile, placenta had started failing so I was induced at 37 weeks and she was born on my husbands birthday (love that!) weighing 5lb4 but perfectly healthy. After birth my bp was out of control so a lot of it is very hazy to me, I remember waking up with an iv but I'm not sure what I was given. Bp was high the following few weeks but by 6 weeks I was able to come off the nifedipine.

This time I've been on aspirin since my bfp, due to having 3 mcs since DD then my consultant said it also could help prevent repeat pre-e. I recently came off it though because I'd read one of the side effects was heartburn and mine has been horrendous the past few weeks! I've developed GD this time so think I'll have a bigger baby, though so far it's been diet managed.

Anyway I've recently been having a few headaches which has reminded me of last time. Really hoping it doesn't happen this time, I couldn't imagine a long hospital stay with DD at home.

I was terrified of another hospital stay with a 2 year old at home. I had no idea how we would have managed if it all happened again but thankfully we were lucky and it didn't. I hope your headaches don't mean anything. I've been having headaches the last few days since I started Labetalol again. I don't remember having that problem the first time.

 

[Anniebobs]

Hi can I join you? I've read through most of the recent posts and was excited to read some of you are almost ready to have baby and haven't developed pre-e again.

My pre-e was picked up at 36 weeks (though my bp had bee rising since 32 weeks, just wasn't ridiculously high) and I was kept in hospital for a week while they tried to control bp using labetalol and nifedipine. Had a scan and DD was found to be on the 2nd percentile, placenta had started failing so I was induced at 37 weeks and she was born on my husbands birthday (love that!) weighing 5lb4 but perfectly healthy. After birth my bp was out of control so a lot of it is very hazy to me, I remember waking up with an iv but I'm not sure what I was given. Bp was high the following few weeks but by 6 weeks I was able to come off the nifedipine.

This time I've been on aspirin since my bfp, due to having 3 mcs since DD then my consultant said it also could help prevent repeat pre-e. I recently came off it though because I'd read one of the side effects was heartburn and mine has been horrendous the past few weeks! I've developed GD this time so think I'll have a bigger baby, though so far it's been diet managed.

Anyway I've recently been having a few headaches which has reminded me of last time. Really hoping it doesn't happen this time, I couldn't imagine a long hospital stay with DD at home.

I was terrified of another hospital stay with a 2 year old at home. I had no idea how we would have managed if it all happened again but thankfully we were lucky and it didn't. I hope your headaches don't mean anything. I've been having headaches the last few days since I started Labetalol again. I don't remember having that problem the first time.

I think (hope) it's just tiredness. They've not been strong headaches and my bp has been on the low side this pregnancy so I can hold out hope it's nothing. My headaches got worse last time when I was put on the labetalol, apparently it's a side effect of the drug and the disease. Makes things simple eh?!

 

[Amythyst]

What dose of aspirin do you guys take?