I've got high blood pressure - Page 3

[Wugmama]

I feel for you honey. It was hard to lose my homebirth. Keep us updated - I'm pulling for you!

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~Tracy

[sunnylady303]

Just checking to see if you'd heard anything. I've been thinking about you and hoping all is well. I know this is so frustrating. Keep us updated!

[ehsclt]

Persephone, I too wanted to say I am thinking of you and I am so sorry this has happened to you. Hoping for the best possible outcome and that you'll be holding that healthy baby in your arms soon!

Emily

[riley&me]

Hope all is going better for you, but thought I'd share our abbreviated story in the "what counts is the healthy, safe baby" category. Gabriel Ansel arrived Jan 4th, 7lbs, 20 inches, and is keeping his sister very entertained.

I had a pretty ordinary/no complication pregnancy (first pregnancy, our dd is adopted) until I hit mid December. Then my bp spiked, a got a never-go-away headache that was worse then migranes, and then a slow but steady progression to pre-eclampsia... Anyhow, after weeks of monitoring/blood draws/baby heart rate observations they decided to induce on Jan 3rd (at 39 weeks). After 20+ hrs of labour and assorted nuttiness, we ended up with a c-section - which I was pretty unimpressed with, BUT it turned out that Gabriel had the cord wrapped around his neck quite a few times and in such a way that it was too short for him to have arrived vaginally, and if we hadn't been at the hospital.... well lets just say that I'll be forever gratefull that when he reached the point where he couldn't progress any further without strangling himself, I'm so glad the technology was there, and he arrived safely.

So although the labour and delivery ended up having pretty much everything medical and technical that I had hoped to avoid... Gabriel arrived safely, and as I watch him sleep, his arrival method seems pretty irrelevant.

Hope that everything goes better for you, but in the end, as long as baby arrives safely, the rest fades away.
Celeste

[Peppamint]

for an easy induction and a wonderful birth, keep us posted!

[gossamer]

Persephone, please keepus updated. Your blood pressures are scaring the bejeesus out of me. THose are what my bp's were ranging and I wound up in the hospital near death after having lost my daughter. Pre-eclampsia/PIH/Toxemia kills mothers and babies. It is the number 2 cause of death for pregnant women. It is most common in the third trimester and can even occur after delivery. Please be careful.
Gossamer

[Nature]

How are you doing Persephone? I'm thinking of you today!

[gsmom]

Hope all is going well for you! Thinking of you today!