Emergency induction

Some women are meant to be pregnant but for me that was not the case. From the very beginning I was constantly sick and never able to keep anything down, not even water. I was on 6 different medications to get my nausea under control. I started to have severe swelling in my legs and feet around 7 months and voiced my concerns with my OB and he told me I was pregnant and that it was normal. He then went on to tell me to keep an eye out for any pre eclamptic symptoms such as headaches coupled with swelling of the hands and feet. Almost every week I’m having to go to the ER because I get so dizzy I almost pass out, I was having this weird pain up under the right side of my ribs, or my legs are swelling so bad I can’t walk.

They don’t even look

at my legs, put me on a monitor to check for labor signs, and then sent me home. Finally at my 36 week appointment my doctor finds protein in my urine, my blood pressure is high, and he finally takes my swelling seriously. He even asked me how long it had been looking the way it did and I told him that’s how it’s been looking and you never believed me. Send me to the hospital to get tests done, tests come back borderline pre eclamptic. They sent me home and told me to come back in a couple days for more tests. It just so happened that that day was my baby shower and I was not missing that! So I went to my baby shower and then to the hospital. They did tests again and told me I was preeclamptic. They come back again and told me it’s not preeclampsia it’s HELLP syndrome (a very rare and severe complication of high blood pressure during pregnancy) and I needed to be medaflighted 3 hours away to a hospital that is equipped to handle this situation. When I got there they did more tests and decided that we couldn’t wait until I was 37 weeks and that I was deteriorating too fast. They induced me that night and the next day my sweet baby boy, Declan, was born.