Pre-eclampsia, did you get it again?

[mari881]

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

Things are good so far!! I've been seen for weekly appointments for a while now and my bp has stayed in the 130's/80's generally. Last weekends was the 144/88 but it went down after laying down for a few min at the end of my appointment. I've been feeling good and am still trying to walk every day. I had a growth scan yesterday and baby is estimating to be 5lb 11oz, 27th percentile which is already bigger than my daughters birth weight of 5lb 8oz at 37 weeks. My next f/u appointment is Saturday. Its pretty irritating that they scared the crap out of me so early and caused so much anxiety for me in this pregnancy. Despite the high bp, I feel good and don't have any swelling. Maybe it helps that it is winter time and baby 1 came in September. Who knows? All this stuff is so unpredictable.

How are you feeling?

 

[Betheney]

Oh I'm so glad everything is going so well. We both have just a home stretch to go. The way they treated me early pregnancy i couldn't really tell if i was actually high risk or not. The hospital refused to let me have any care other than the high risk unit. Which made me believe it was super risky for me to be pregnant. But then the high risk unit were like "oh no you'll be treated as a total normal pregnancy unless something goes awry" so then i was like "why the hell am i in the high risk unit!" But now I've reached 3rd tri they are treating me differently, extra bloods and growth scans. It was just so frustrating back im early pregnancy because if they agreed i wasn't high risk i could of had a waterbirth at another hospital buy making me high risk excludes me from that hospital. Of course if i AM high risk then i want to be in the high risk unit. But they were all talking like i was low risk but in the unit anyway.

My BPs have been good since that bizarre episode. Mostly 120-135 / 78-88 anywhere in there really, DIA only hits 90 or just above immediately after eating.

How am i feeling? Like death. Lol. I'm so exhausted and tired and my pelvic girdle pain, SPD and sacroilliac joints are all making it impossible to do anything!!!! I seriously can't be up and about for more than an hour without hobbling quickly to a seat. Shopping and such is totally out of the question. Pregnancy insomnia is awful! I'm awake all night!

My other pregnancies weren't this rough and i had preeclampsia then! Lol

 

[mari881]

Oh I'm so glad everything is going so well. We both have just a home stretch to go. The way they treated me early pregnancy i couldn't really tell if i was actually high risk or not. The hospital refused to let me have any care other than the high risk unit. Which made me believe it was super risky for me to be pregnant. But then the high risk unit were like
"oh no you'll be treated as a total normal pregnancy unless something goes awry" so then i was like "why the hell am i in the high risk unit!" But now I've reached 3rd tri they are treating me differently, extra bloods and growth scans. It was just so frustrating back im early pregnancy because if they agreed i wasn't high risk i could of had a waterbirth at another hospital buy making me high risk excludes me from that hospital. Of course if i AM high risk then i want to be in the high risk unit. But they were all talking like i was low risk but in the unit anyway.

My BPs have been good since that bizarre episode. Mostly 120-135 / 78-88 anywhere in there really, DIA only hits 90 or just above immediately after eating.

How am i feeling? Like death. Lol. I'm so exhausted and tired and my pelvic girdle pain, SPD and sacroilliac joints are all making it impossible to do anything!!!! I seriously can't be up and about for more than an hour without hobbling quickly to a seat. Shopping and such is totally out of the question. Pregnancy insomnia is awful! I'm awake all night!

My other pregnancies weren't this rough and i had preeclampsia then! Lol

I'm glad you are doing well too! Aside from the pain of course I have that too. My hips kill in my sleep and I wake up in a lot of pain quite a bit. I'm still working too which makes things interesting as I get so stiff and painful after sitting I end up hobbling around half the day. I'm also annoyed with how they've treated me. They've went so far as to tell me that having another child would be too dangerous for me. And here I am at almost 37 weeks still trucking along. Watch me jinx myself though. My next appointment is later this morning so we'll see how my bp is. I almost don't care anymore because I've made it past all the milestones I set for myself in my head.

 

[Betheney]

Exactly how i feel Mari.

Of course i would prefer i reach fullterm. But if i got a high BP reading tomorrow i wouldn't be overly concerned. Lol. All the goals were hit with the final one being 37 weeks but at just 2 weeks shy my stress levels about it all have greatly reduced.

A 35 weeker would struggle with breastfeeding and if given no steroids potentially struggle with breathing so i definitely don't WANT a 35 weeker. But after havibg a 33 weeker i know we'd be just fine

 

[sethsmummy]

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

Hey Hun. Well to say we've had a dramatic few weeks is a major understatement. Ill start from the beginning but apologise if it gets long.

I was having what I thought were painful Braxton hicks and period cramps but they went away at around 10pm after a bath. Woke at 2:30am on the 23rd needing a pee and as I got up I thought I'd speed the bed as a bit came out so went to the toilet..did a huge pee and wiped but then more fluid was coming. So I thought is it pee or waters.. well as I got to the living room and went to sit down on the chair (on a towel) there was a huge gush and that was the start of my waters going... I had gush after gush after gush...it didn't stop till I went to theatre. So anyway called hospital and they wanted me in..we got there for around four am. By 9am I still had no contractions so they asked if I wanted a section so I said yes. I was at that point getting pressure in my bum but they never checked me at all. So Rohan Thomas was born at 11:51 weighing 6lb 8oz after getting stuck I never would have believed a baby could get stuck during a section but Rohan just wanted to be difficult from the start.

He was a funny colour when born.and making funny grunting noises so after a couple hours he was taken to nicu. He spent 24 hours in nicu under the billi lights for his jaundice and then was put on a portable light so he could come in my room with me. He then had to have 48 hours of anti biotics as my strep b results came back positive.

So we got home on boxing day and all was well for a couple days then he got a snuffly nose that nothing seemed to help. Then on top of that he started coughing. Then on the 4th Jan when we woke at 6am he was cold. No matter what we did he wouldn't warm up so I'd just fed him and John put him in his swing so we could call the out of hours doctors when Rohan was sick and then stopped breathing. He went blue/grey and floppy. By the time the ambulance got to us (around 10minutes after he first stopped breathing) he'd only managed a few little gasps. He was put straight in the ambulance and they managed to get him breathing ok then he seemed fine but still couldn't warm him up. We got to hospital where he was taken straight to resus where he stopped breathing another ten times between getting there and going to theatre at 2pm. He was taken down and intubated (put on ventilator). Before they left the consultant told me he's very very ill and he was being transferred up to yorkhill.He had rsv (common cold) and broncholitis. seeing him on a ventilator and hooked up to so many different drips and wires was heart breaking. He had a cannula in each hand and each leg and a central line in his groin. it took them till 6pm to do all that in theatre as his veins kept collapsing and his blood pressure kept plummeting. He was on ventilator for 6 days and then extubated. He didn't respond well and had to be placed on cpap. They tried every day to wean him down but he didn't tolerate it at all and his data would plummet, at one point the intubation trolley was set up and ready outside his room for two days and nobody could touch him unless 100% necessary as his body just couldn't handle it. Then his right lung collapsed at the top from all of the mucous that had built up. He also got another infection so was on three different anti biotics (keflaxin, gentamisin and amoxicillin) took over a week to get him off the cpap and onto high flow. While on that his lung 're opened and he seemed to have turned a corner finally. He was then finally swapped to normal oxygen nasal cannula on Thursday and we were transferred back to our local hospital on Friday. Today he has had his ng tube removed and is having all feeds from a bottle.

Xxx

 

[emily3399]

hi ladies can I join I had pre e with dd2 and was kept in from 38 weeks and induced at 39 with dd3 I had post partum pre-e that started during delivery not really sure if im classed as pre-e yet 33+2 bp was 140/105 +protein but bp settled on admission, next clinic app 34+3 140/96 2nd reading 140/92 no protein then 35+3 130/90 +protein then 36+3 130/90 again +protein then my reading yesterday was 128/90 +1 protein, my last growth scan at 35+3 showed slow growth so got repeat growth on Tuesday nobody has said I have pre-e but they are keeping an eye on it. my bp normally runs at about 110-120/70-80.

Ive had so many complications from the start I had a bleed which scan revealed SCH until 18 weeks it went then at 27 weeks I was rediagnosed with gallstones and collapsed gallbladder after chronic pain and cant have it removed until I have baby which is hard as really doesn't help with horrific heartburn. Then at 32 weeks routine bloods showed an increased liver ALT which kept rising every 3 days then finally at 35 weeks it went back to normal. Then on new years day at 34+5 I had a large bleed which a speculum exam showed I had a ectropian cervix and that was the cause of bleeding which settled after a couple of days. Now bp has been sitting on the border and protein and the stress of reduced growth im just so over been pregnant now I just want to have my baby out safe in my arms and have done with all this .... do you think it would be fair to ask for induction at my growth scan at 37+3 on Tuesday? sorry for the long winded post lol xx

 

[ttc126]

Oh my gosh Seth'smummy!!!!!! I'm so sorry you've had all of that going on!!!!! what a stressful time for you! You guys are in my prayers and I hope poor Rohan only continuous to improve from now on. Big hugs to you!!!!!

ps, on a side note, Jude got stuck coming out too! I had a scheduled section since he was breech and his head got stuck. He was crying and they had to shove his head back in (his whole body was out already), maneuver him around and get him out.

 

[sethsmummy]

Thanks ttc. I'm hoping well maybe be home by Wednesday which would make three and a half weeks in hospital.

Haha well at least Rohan didn't go-to that extreme haha.. I had one doctor with forceps on him and another shoving down on my ribs for a good five mins to get him out x

 

[misspriss]

Oh wow Seth'smummy, I'm sorry to hear how things went, I hope it is all uphill for Rohan now!

 

[Tasha]

Oh my goodness Seth's mummy, that pounds beyond terrifying.

Emily, you've been through the mill. Def ask, make sure you read up on risks etc so you can go in saying I'm aware.

 

[Tasha]

I've been reading for a little while and am excited for you girls on the home stretch.

I had preeclampsia with my first, it happened so gradually that no one noticed (there was no continuation of care), then it spiked and I was so ill that they induced at 36 weeks, second was worse as bp meds started at 24 weeks and she was born at 37 weeks, third (she was stillborn) and fourth was from about twenty-eight weeks, fifth it wasn't diagnosed but the postmortem said it looked like pre-eclampsia (bp wasn't being watched regularly as I had just turned 24 weeks). I'm sixteen weeks now and I know that this was when growth just started to slow down with my last stillbirth.

I'm having growth scans every time two weeks from twenty weeks and hopefully my bp will be closely watched.

 

[ttc126]

Oh my gosh Tasha. I'm sorry you've been through so much. Praying you'll get a take home baby this time. Do they have you on baby aspirin or anything?

Emily to you too!

 

[emily3399]

Oh tasha so sorry to hear your story I hope they keep such a close eye on you. To be fair ive been really well looked after and have been in 2-3 times a week for check ups, my last 2 were induced so I know what I may have to come its just constant worry so id feel better and safe in the knowledge that hes here with me out rather than in xx

 

[Tasha]

Thank you. I am on aspirin (150mg) and clexane (60mg twice a day).

Emily, you are so close now. Hopefully your bp stabilises and these last couple of weeks can be enjoyed x

 

[emily3399]

Im on aspirin and inject fragmin 5000units twice a day too until 6 weeks post partum, that's exactly it Tasha I would just like my bp to settle so I can just be left alone rather than constant backwards and forwards which I know is all for the right reasons just so exhausting when I already have 3 little ones at home x

 

[Tasha]

Definitely understand that, I'm there three times a week most weeks atm. It is all for the right reason and of course we would prefer to be watched closely than not but its draining isn't it?

 

[mari881]

Hey ladies! So, I actually went into labor on Sunday and had my baby this past Monday! Maxwell Colin was born 5lb 12oz and perfectly healthy. My bp was great during labor and delivery but has been high since. I have a bp check at the doctors tomorrow and we'll see what they want to do.

 

[Betheney]

OMG Mari congratulations!!!!!!

My BP was horrific for 24hrs post birth and then perfect hopefully you're the same. If you post a full birth story let us know. So glad he's here safe, sound and healthy. Give us a piccy when you can.

Seths mummy - what a ringer you have beem through!!!! RSV is so dangerous in newborns. They can frequently not make it. So glad to hear your little man is gettinf better. give us another update when you can.

I don't have time to read and reply to all properly

Diastolic is constantly sitting borderline (90) and my dip stick tests are showing +1 protein now after showing none all pregnancy (except i showed trace once) so they've been sending off PE bloods and urine tests but they keep coming back with the all clear. So they're just going to do weekly BP checks on it at the moment and hope we don't get much higher than that 90 DIA. But already want a stretch and sweep done at 37.5weeks (in about 2 weeks) and then consider an induction. But I'm unsure how willing i am to do that.

 

[Tasha]

Congratulations Mari. Can't wait to hear more details.

Betheney, did you have bloods done early in pregnancy as a baseline?

 

[misspriss]

Congrats Mari!