Hi everyone,
Just wondered if anyone out there has been where I am.
I'm 36+3 with my second pg and I have a few complications (same as in 1st pg), including anaemia and chronic SPD, which have made it a long ride. I'm on crutches but barely mobile, and having iron infusions to improve my iron levels. To add to that, I've been diagnosed with Pre Eclampsia in the last few days.
At my routine mf appt last week, I asked about my horrendously uncomfortable and swollen feet/ankles, which have been getting worse in the last ten days. I also tested positive for +1 for protein with slightly raised BP, so the mf was monitoring me over the next 36hrs. Then, after 48hrs, I started to feel really unwell - throbbing headache, nausea and a general all-over feeling that I wasn't well. At hospital, my BP went through the roof, and I started being sick and having visual disturbances. Still tested +1 for protein although my bloods were ok. I was admitted for 48hrs and put on Labetalol, which brought my BP right down, almost too far, but also meant Bump was very quiet. Traces were 'unsatisfactory' and barely seemed to wake over a couple of days but today, on the 5th hour-long trace, he moved enough for the staff to be happy, and I was discharged. I also had a scan which established Bump is growing well and blood flow through the placenta is still good.
A registrar saw me before I left and said I'll need to see the consultant next week to decide 'when all this will come to an end'. I asked what that meant and she said I wouldn't be allowed to go anywhere near 40+12, if that's how things progress, now I'm on Labetalol, and that I may be induced.
Really wanted to avoid an induction and just wondered what other people's experiences have been - allowed to go into labour spontaneously, or induced? If induced, will this be left until well after 40 weeks?
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Diagnosed with Pre Eclampsia - s aninduction inevitable? Anyone else in this situation?
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MrsHelenBee · 30/04/2014 17:24
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