Emmy

So seven years later, I'm 31 weeks pregnant with my first baby.

I go to the doctor and I had been having some elevated blood pressure, a little bit of protein in the urine.

I had preeclampsia.

So they sent me to the hospital for bed rest.

So I was there for a couple of days.

They monitored lots of ultrasounds,

Oh.

Oh, goodness.

It can be very dangerous.

Yes.

Really just elevated blood pressure, which then if it gets too high, you could go into seizures, like it's dangerous for the baby.

So just lots of monitoring and then lots of fluid retention.

What it can go into and then what it actually eventually did go into for me is HELP syndrome.

And that's like really dangerous.

So that's, I wrote it down, hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets.

So if it gets that bad, like for me, I had extreme back pain because my liver was distended.

Ah.

And then if you have low platelets, like you can bleed out, it's really dangerous.

So the only resolution is deliver the baby.

It's the only way to help the baby or the mom.