Pre-eclampsia, did you get it again?

[Betheney]

Wowzers Seths mummy i hope everything is okay, please keep us updated with how the hospital went. There's a sticky thread in second tri or third tri (can't remember which) about collestatis or something, anyway its a serious complication where the key symptom is insane itchyness, have you been tested for it?

Were your other births sections? Any idea on the cause of the bleeding?

 

[ttc126]

Oh sethsmummy I really hope you're ok! please update when you can!

 

[rbourre]

Rbourre - such a bummer your BP is still crap. How long was it high for, post pregnancy last time? Or do you think it was high because you were so irritated you had to wait so long to see the doctor? I had a 10am appt today and got in at around 12, how can they possibly be running 2 hours late when they just opened an hour prior! I had both kids with me who were total terrors, was such a god damn nightmare.

I was still on nifedipine when I got pregnant and the doctor took me off of it. I will most likely be on it for the rest of my life now. Same thing happened to my mom. She got high blood pressure while pregnant and 28 years later still has it.

My son had his 2 month appointment yesterday. He's a giant. He's 12 pounds 2 ounces. My pre-eclampsia baby is only 24 pounds at 2 years old.
https://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h213/rhayward19/1964979_10152398343626548_1803885547738700498_n.jpg

This is his Christmas outfit....well half of it at least. The pants are too big so I have to get him smaller ones.
https://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h213/rhayward19/10455762_10152398410631548_399447455647710688_n.jpg

Just wanted to share to show that it is definitely possible to have a big full term baby after an IUGR preemie due to pre-eclampsia.

 

[sethsmummy]

awwww rbourre look at how cute the boys are

sorry i didnt update yesterday! I didnt get back till lateish. They couldnt find a reason for the bleed (infact the snooty midwife didnt believe i had been bleeding!!). I mentioned the itching while i was there but she neither said anything or did anything so if it doesnt stop ill be seeing my normal midwife because i was having liver function tested regularly at the end with ethan so its very likely the same again AND my sisters had Cholestesis so im at a higher risk of getting it.
My last birth was a section after my pre-e birth was a complete and utter disaster. xx

 

[zebbed89]

Hi, I thought I would join you all. My little girl was born 3 years ago I was induced due to pre e. It came on about 34 weeks and I was induced at 38+5 and Had her the day after it they couldn't get my BP under control at all during labour it never went under 170/110. I stayed in hospital for 9 days until it dropped to a safe level and I have been on meds ever since. I'm now nearly 17 weeks and so far BP is ok I'm on 150mg twice a day of labetalol I was on 200 but was getting dizzy from it dropping to low. Fingers crossed this one goes ok! I'm not going through it again. Sorry it's long it's just nice to see other mums who have been through it as well. Xx

 

[Betheney]

Sethsmummy i just saw you had baby over a week ago!! Come update us on all the details when you can.

 

[Betheney]

How is everyone going?

I'm 33+5 today! Remi was born at 33+4 :-D so i made it!!! BP is 120/80 and PE ia no where in sight. So happy i could dance.

 

[misspriss]

How is everyone going?

I'm 33+5 today! Remi was born at 33+4 :-D so i made it!!! BP is 120/80 and PE ia no where in sight. So happy i could dance.

That is great news! DS was born at 33+5, so about the same goal for me...still just 21 weeks today (just realized I forgot to take a picture today...). No sign of PE, but at this point with DS I had no signs either.

 

[ttc126]

Betheny that's great!!!! Congrats on making it this far!!!!!!

Miss priss, every day with no signs or symptoms is encouraging!

Well I had my little guy on Tuesday! He was 6lbs 11oz and perfect! No preeclampsia! He was.delivered via c section because he was breech and he was born at 37+2 because of the antibody in my blood.

 

[misspriss]

Congratulations TTC!!!

 

[Betheney]

Congratulations TTC!!!!!! What's his name?!?!?!? The pregnancy is all over now. No more drama. Just a baby squish to dedicate your time to.

Thanks Miss Priss!!! Everyday counts :-D when did PE start last time? My PIH started at 29 and PE at 32 so they were my first two goal (other than reaching 3rd Tri)

 

[misspriss]

Around 31.5 weeks the BP went slightly high, but stayed out of "dangerous" level and no protein until 32.5 or 33 weeks.

 

[Betheney]

Hey girls. I just need some help from those of you with BP home monitors.

I got a reading of like 120/92 about 1.5hrs ago. I can probably count less than a dozen times I've gotten this reading and probably a total of 4 times the diastolic has reached 94. Usually when it happens i wait 10 minutes test again and it's completely normal. Making it more of an isolated spike, whether it was the machine or me i don't know but i usually test every couple.of hours for the rest of the day amd BP is always back to fine.

So tonight when i got 120/92 at 5pm i wasn't too concerned. I tested 5 mins later and got 123/93 then 5 minutes latwr 129/97 (highest reading this pregnancy) 5mins later 126/104 then 10 mins later 128/100 then 10 mins again 126/100 10 mins again 125/ 97 then 134/96 then 135/90 then 124/90 then over an hour after the first reading 134/86 which is where it seems to be staying with the diastolic floating between 80 and 86.

What do you girls think of this? Yes i was walking around prior but I've tested my BP after doing all sorts of activities and my diastolic usually doesnt react to anything. Plus the fact i was sitting there stationary waiting to test again means it should go down not continually up. Obviously I'm not calling the hospital, there's little point with it going down again. I've just never had this... I've either had good BP or very high BP that won't come down. But this one came down... what does that mean? Does that mean things are starting to play up? Does it mean nothing? Has anyone who avoided PE the second time around have episodes like this that meant nothing?

I usually test my BP all day lol and nothing like this has ever happened before.

 

[misspriss]

I think when you are testing every 5-10 minutes your anxiety about it maybe making it worse. I think you are to worry if you get bad readings 4 hours apart with rest between, I wish I had known where I heard that though.

 

[Betheney]

Probably from me. Because i know that's how my hospital diagnose it. High readings 4hrs apart. So i know it's not PE but wondered if anyone else has episodes like this and what it might indicate.

My diastolic isn't usually responsive to stress or anxiety, that's usually what happens to systolic presures not diastolics. I remember once in hospital i had a nightmare and then needed a BP reading and my systolic was 165. Lol. But my anxiety definitely was through the roof during this whole ordeal.

 

[misspriss]

I'm not sure, I don't take mine nearly so frequently. I haven't been taking it all recently, since it's been fine at my dr appointments. I didn't see any issues until much later in my pregnancy with DS, I guess I'm just trying not to stress myself out too much.

Probably when I'm as far along as you, I'll be taking it much more frequently.

 

[Betheney]

Because I'd started feeling so confident lately and like I've managed to skip PE i have been taking it less but now I'm going to be back like a crazy person taking it every couple of hours again. Lol. I dont usually sit and take it constantly within 1 hour. But my doctor takes it when i arrive and if it's slightly elevated they wait 5 mins and take it again and it's gone back down. So that was kind of my mentality.

I didn't have a BP monitor when i was around your gestation i dont think and I kept turning up to my GP for BP checks because I couldn't stand the wait between Ob appts wondering if it had gone up and i was dying of PE and no one knew. Buying the monitor has calmed my nerves so much. But my BP was found elevated at 29weeks however i never had any appts for a couple months prior so i never REALLY when it went up. Could of gone up at 22 weeks but not discovered till 29. So i think that's why i got so paranoid so early.

 

[mari881]

Betheney, my bottom number is easily affected too. For example, my first reading at the office on Saturday was 144/88. When taken at the end of the appointment it was 136/72.

 

[ginny83]

Hi ladies, haven't posted on here in a while but just wanted to share that we welcomed our rainbow into the world on 2nd Jan

I was induced at 38 weeks due to having a few spikes in my bp which required overnight stays from 34 weeks. Unfortunately I had complications after the birth. The first few days my bp was up but not alarmingly up about 150/90 mark. I put it down to them taking me off methlydopa and trying to switch me to nifedipine. Anyway, on day 3 it shot up a lot - ended up reaching 192/110 and they were just giving me tablet after tablet to try and bring it down. I had a cannuala put in as they were going to start magnesium iv. Luckily I managed to avoid it and it eventually went back down to safer high levels. The next 4 days was almost the same and it didn't go under 160/100 during the day- then often reaching 180/100-110 at night time. Needless to say they just kept upping my doses. It was really just crazy! I remember I finally got a reading of 160/90 and was so happy with it lol

I ended up being diagnosed with post partum pre-eclampsia although I didn't have that many additional symptoms. Just protein in wee and sometimes my reflexes were no good. Because I have pre exsisiting hyptertenion it's hard to diagnose as you never know if the high bp is coz of pre e or I just have it anyway - although my levels have never been that bad!!

Ended up being allowed to go home on 200mg labetalol x twice a day, 60mg slow release nifedipine once a day and 20mg enalapril twice a day! Billy is 3 weeks old and I've already halved my labetalol dose and off the enalapril

 

[Betheney]

Thanks Mari 36+4!!!! Hows everything going with you?

Ginny I've been dying with curiosity about what went down during such am extended hospital stay!!! When my BP was uncontrollable and they just kept throwing meds at me, we always had the option of giving up and delivering. But you had already delivered!!! Which just makes it seem so risky and scary having no back up plan and just praying in the mean time you don't have a damn stroke or something.

But congrats again. This baby feels like he's been such a long time coming. Such a deserved little beam after all those 2nd tri losses! Master M has a sibling!!!!!

How was the induction? The birth? Did you gey cervidil? Did you end up on the drip? How big is he?

Lots of love ♡♡♡♡