My friend just gave birth to a healthy, 9 pound, 3 ounce baby boy yesterday, uncomplicated, vaginally...at 39 weeks. She has had to see a perinatologist her whole pregnancy and had the liveing crap scared out of her about preeclampsia this that and the third, because she has chronic hypertension, but she had a normal healthy pregnancy and baby, they even got discharged early!!
Now, my perfectly healthy, normal BP having sis-in-law is 28 weeks pregnant, and has unfortunately developed the condition, preeclampsia. How is that? It seems so weird. I thought mothers with high BP already only had that, or were at risk for it rather?
2006-07-30 05:55:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Any women can get preclampsia regardless of their past medical history or if they ever had high blood pressure before.
It may be caused by a defect in the placenta, which joins mother and baby and supplies the baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother's blood. Pre-eclampsia is symptom-less in the early stages and is detectable only by regular antenatal checks on the mother's blood pressure and urine.
Who is most at risk?
Most at risk are first-time mothers; the over-40s; those with a BMI over 35; women with a family history of pre-eclampsia; where it is ten years or more since a last baby; those suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease; those carrying more than one baby and those who have had it before.
What are the signs?
High blood pressure, protein in the urine and in some cases severe swelling (oedema) in the mother and, sometimes, poor growth in the baby - all of which should be detected by routine ante-natal checks.
2006-07-30 06:03:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every woman and pregnancy is different.
My cousin delivered a baby at I think it was at 34 weeks (it was 8 years ago) because of preeclampsia and she was a healthy 19 year old when she got pregnant and had a normal pregnancy up until she developed preeclampsia. She had another baby 2 years ago when her first born was 6 and she had no problems at all with that pregnancy and she was actually induced by the DR because she made it to her due date and didn't go into labor.
2006-07-30 06:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a condition that so far has no explanation but just having high BP doesn't mean you have pre-eclampsia. It is a combination of factors and not just BP. If someone has it usually it does not happen to the same woman with other pregnancies from the same father. If the father of the baby changes then it could happen again but might not. Have I totally confused you yet?
2006-07-30 06:11:50 · answer #3 · answered by notpregnant 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pregnancy changes a woman's body so dramatically that it is hard to keep up with some of the curve balls her body throws at her. Many high risk pregnancies, most of them if I am not mistaken, result in healthy babies. Your friend's baby was just one more example (and GOD Bless her 9lbs 3oz!!!). Your sis-in-law may have developed the condition for a number of reasons, many of them beyond her control, but as long she has a doctor who is able to provide her with good care there is no reason why she and the baby shouldn't be fine.
2006-07-30 06:16:53 · answer #4 · answered by Erica M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Normotensive (normal BP) women can have pre-eclampsia, or eclampsia. This is a condition that occurs during pregnancy, when your hormone and cardiac functions are altered. So even if you have been normal all your life, you can still have preeclampsia. And some chronic hypertensive women MAY have normal pregnancy because their body are already used to having hypertension that they can adapt to it during pregnancy.
2006-07-30 06:02:53 · answer #5 · answered by rn_md 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 06:33:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember this
Every woman and pregnancy is different
2006-07-30 05:58:11 · answer #7 · answered by Coast2CoastChat.com 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No unfortunately it can happen to anyone but at least they caught it in time and are able to monitor her
2006-07-30 05:59:33 · answer #8 · answered by Right Wing Extremist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it can be hereditary. Maybe that had something to do with it.
2006-07-30 06:20:57 · answer #9 · answered by Danielle P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh?
2006-07-30 05:58:11 · answer #10 · answered by kayla_ann_simmons 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋