Have you had preeclampsia? Read post

Question

If you’ve had preeclampsia before what were subsequent pregnancies like? Did you develop it around the same time? Same severity? Did you deliver around the same time?
I had my son at 30 weeks due to severe preeclampsia. We are looking to start trying again soon when he turns 2. I’ve had chronic hypertension since I was pregnant. I’m trying to see what other people’s experiences were.

Answer

My first Bub was preeclampsia free, second severe pre e and delivery at 32 weeks. I’m now pregnant again. There’s a FANTASTIC evidence based Facebook group for preeclampsia/eclampsia/hellp that I highly recommend checking out. 
From the evidence based research the average reoccurrence in subsequent pregnancies is around 20 per cent. But this can vary depending on your individual circumstances.

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I had pre-e with my first. It didn’t appear until 36 weeks. I’m currently pregnant and my BP started going up a lot at 21 weeks. I’m on labetalol and baby aspirin now. I’ve been in the hospital twice now for my BP teaching 160s/100s and have had to increase my labetalol dosage to combat that. Not technically pre-e again yet. We are trying hard to keep it at bay.

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I had my daughter via emergency csection at 37 weeks because of pre eclampsia. I’m currently 24w3d with my second but haven’t developed it again so far. I’ve had high blood pressure since about 10 weeks tho and have been taking BP medication (labetalol) and baby aspirin. My blood pressure has been good ever since being put on the medication so hoping I don’t get it this time around.

Have you had preeclampsia? Read post

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