Hi girls
It's a bit of a long one so i don't mind if none of you can be effed reading it all. lol
I don't have chronic hypertension and have no history in my family or myself of any blood pressure problems and had no BP problems in my first pregnancy but i have strangely developed gestational hypertension now in my second.
At a routine check up at 28+6 my doctor found my BP staying around 130/90-95 he tried to get it down by having me relax on a bed and rest but nothing worked. 4 days later it was constantly 140-150/95-105 so he sent me to hospital for monitoring who over the course of 3 hours couldn't get it below 140-150/100-110 so i was started on 100mg of labetalol and kept over night. 12 hours later they had done nothing so i was upped to 200mg told to take it twice a day and was kept in for another night after about 6 hours my BP started to stay around 140/90-95 and i was told it would come down a little more in the next 24 hours.
The doctor who came around in the morning was lovely and within 5 minutes had told me i am now to attend a fetal monitoring unit at one of the bigger hospitals in Melbourne that is 45 minutes away TWICE a week. At both of the check ups i will receive a CTG monitoring of the baby (similar to NST), blood pressure checks over the course of the appt (about 1-2 hours), an ultrasound on the placenta and how it is functioning, an ultrasound on the umbilical cord and blood flow and also a check of my fluid levels. On top of this she said i'm going to be discharged from my GP OBs care straight away and be moved to the high risk unit at another hospital and have ONCE weekly check ups which will just be like a normal pregnancy check ups including urine tests at every single one. I will also be receiving a growth scan ONCE per fortnight. I also THINK i'm getting ONCE per week blood tests although that one i can't be entirely sure.
now i had my very first check up at the hospital the other day and the CTG and BP checks and scans all went really well. My BP was about 135/82 and 132/85 so great numbers.
Now i'm unsure if i'm in denial or not... but... i can't help but feel it's unnecessary for me to be on such an intense amount of monitoring. I mean as long as my BP stays in the 80s the doctor told me there should be no reason at all for my placenta to stop working. So why not just give me 3 check ups per week on my blood pressure and IF it starts to rise then check my placenta and other organs. I mean there seems to be women that have much worse circumstances than i do and are on alot less monitoring than i am. I am not complaining and do not mind all the extra travel and of course i feel that it's better safe than sorry. I just feel it's a bit unnecessary. Like i said... maybe i'm in denial. But i can't help but think i'm going to be one of the women who had high blood pressure became medicated had their BP stay stable and carried on with no problems and deliver as per normal.
My other concerns is also about what will happen from here on out if my BP DOESN'T stay stable and my chances of PE and so forth. I'm trying to find posts with women in similar situations and i can't find much. I mean most posts i find about gestational hypertension are all women who develop it past 36 weeks and so the discussions are all about being induced and delivery. Not many women are medicated or having the monitoring i am because they're further along. All the posts about chronic hypertension are about women who have had long struggles with BP and have been under monitoring since the beginning of pregnancy and are alot more dangerous than i am and i feel by trying to join in their conversations i'm going to look a bit silly as like i said i wonder if mine is really that serious at all.
I don't seem to fit... anywhere...
It's a bit of a long one so i don't mind if none of you can be effed reading it all. lol
I don't have chronic hypertension and have no history in my family or myself of any blood pressure problems and had no BP problems in my first pregnancy but i have strangely developed gestational hypertension now in my second.
At a routine check up at 28+6 my doctor found my BP staying around 130/90-95 he tried to get it down by having me relax on a bed and rest but nothing worked. 4 days later it was constantly 140-150/95-105 so he sent me to hospital for monitoring who over the course of 3 hours couldn't get it below 140-150/100-110 so i was started on 100mg of labetalol and kept over night. 12 hours later they had done nothing so i was upped to 200mg told to take it twice a day and was kept in for another night after about 6 hours my BP started to stay around 140/90-95 and i was told it would come down a little more in the next 24 hours.
The doctor who came around in the morning was lovely and within 5 minutes had told me i am now to attend a fetal monitoring unit at one of the bigger hospitals in Melbourne that is 45 minutes away TWICE a week. At both of the check ups i will receive a CTG monitoring of the baby (similar to NST), blood pressure checks over the course of the appt (about 1-2 hours), an ultrasound on the placenta and how it is functioning, an ultrasound on the umbilical cord and blood flow and also a check of my fluid levels. On top of this she said i'm going to be discharged from my GP OBs care straight away and be moved to the high risk unit at another hospital and have ONCE weekly check ups which will just be like a normal pregnancy check ups including urine tests at every single one. I will also be receiving a growth scan ONCE per fortnight. I also THINK i'm getting ONCE per week blood tests although that one i can't be entirely sure.
now i had my very first check up at the hospital the other day and the CTG and BP checks and scans all went really well. My BP was about 135/82 and 132/85 so great numbers.
Now i'm unsure if i'm in denial or not... but... i can't help but feel it's unnecessary for me to be on such an intense amount of monitoring. I mean as long as my BP stays in the 80s the doctor told me there should be no reason at all for my placenta to stop working. So why not just give me 3 check ups per week on my blood pressure and IF it starts to rise then check my placenta and other organs. I mean there seems to be women that have much worse circumstances than i do and are on alot less monitoring than i am. I am not complaining and do not mind all the extra travel and of course i feel that it's better safe than sorry. I just feel it's a bit unnecessary. Like i said... maybe i'm in denial. But i can't help but think i'm going to be one of the women who had high blood pressure became medicated had their BP stay stable and carried on with no problems and deliver as per normal.
My other concerns is also about what will happen from here on out if my BP DOESN'T stay stable and my chances of PE and so forth. I'm trying to find posts with women in similar situations and i can't find much. I mean most posts i find about gestational hypertension are all women who develop it past 36 weeks and so the discussions are all about being induced and delivery. Not many women are medicated or having the monitoring i am because they're further along. All the posts about chronic hypertension are about women who have had long struggles with BP and have been under monitoring since the beginning of pregnancy and are alot more dangerous than i am and i feel by trying to join in their conversations i'm going to look a bit silly as like i said i wonder if mine is really that serious at all.
I don't seem to fit... anywhere...
breastfeeding my daughter meant a lot to mean and she only weaned recently. If I cant have that this time around.....
