High BP...any effects on your labour?

[pigleychez]

Im 23weeks with my second.

Had high BP with my first and had a fair bit of monitoring.
Again im getting high readings already and I now have a consultants appointment in a few weeks. MW reckons ill be given medication to control it.

Just wondering other experiences of what happens next and if it had any effects on your labour. My last birth was full of intervention and nothing like the relaxed waterbirth I was hoping for. Was kinda hoping for that this time but im guessing a waterbirth will be a no no now for a start.
How did it effect your labour? Where you heavily monitiored etc?

Bumping for you

Its all going to depend on yur BP in the run up and on the day. Having been at the very scary end of pre-eclampsia, if they want to monitor you,its for a reason. I guess though if your bp settles down you might be able to have a water birth?

I am 36+5weeks pg with my 4th and just come out of hospital with high bp.. MW did say that I will prob be monitered with BP during labour. And I did have hopes of coming straight home but know that they will want to watch me for a minimum of 24hours after to make sure everything is ok with baby and myself. This is the first pg where BP has been an issue.. But i will let you know once he is here how and what they did. But my BP has stabalised now with the medication.

I had pre eclampsia with dc1 and "just" high blood pressure with DC2.

By the time I was induced with DC1 I was really quite ill and had lots of drips and continuous BP / babyheartrate/ my heartrate oxygen monitoring. I was literally pinned to the bed.

For DC2 I was induced again but things were a lot less critical (I nagged them to induce me before it got any worse). They left me to take my bp meds myself. My bp was taken only at regular obs times. I had no drips and in early labour they just checked babys heartrate now and again with sonicaid. After they broke my membranes I ended up on the bed with the continuous fetal monitor thingy but I had also had pethidine (I asked for it) at this stage and didn't even think to ask them if it was really necessary.

Basically the level of monitoring I received did seem to reflect the level of my actual illness and second time round was MUCH more hands off.

I stayed in ten days after with DC1 and 48 hours with DC2. I was on BP meds for quite a while afterwards with both.