What was your blood pressure at 13 weeks?

[p2b]

Hi

I had a routine midwife appointment this week at 13 weeks 4 days. I am also having regular scans with a consultant after a recent late missed miscarriage due to triploidy. Everything has been looking good in terms of the baby being the right size for dates at the scans (I have another next week) but this week I noticed that my blood pressure has gone up. In hindsight the midwife looked worried when she took the reading but chose not to say anything. I only realised it had gone up when I looked at the notes afterwards.

I have always had relatively low blood pressure around 110/70 (including in my previous pregnancy). However in this pregnancy it has been 120/80 until this week when it was 130/80. I appreciate that this is not 'high' as such but I can't help worrying. Isn't this early for my blood pressure to be rising? I will of course get it measured again next week at the scan appointment and I will of course ask the consultant but I would appreciate hearing about any experiences you may have.

Many thanks
p2b

110/65 (have my notes next to me at the moment).

FWIW, my mw says that the second figure is the important one, and they only get concerned when that goes above 80.

I've been consistently at 140/90 for several weeks (36 weeks pg now) and have been told that that is the upper limit before something needs to be done.

I suspect that if the mw was concerned she'd have taken your bp again after half an hour and/or seen you again a few days later.

as soon as you start worrying about your blood pressure, it is likely to increase.

Try not to worry - 130/80 is a healthy blood pressure.

I would bother them about it - it's not an unhealthy blood pressure, but it is a bit odd for you and what is normal for you. I'm in the same boat (though not pg, just ttc shortly). Normal bp is 90/55. I'd be concerned if it rose. See your GP to have it checked, if only to put your mind at rest. However, I'm of the 'make a fuss to make sure I'm not overlooked' mind when it comes to the medical profession.

As far as I know, they look at your blood pressure when you are booked in, and compare it to that for rises; so if you are 130/80 now, they will only worry if the lower figure goes above 90 - from what I've been told it is only if that figure goes up by more than 10 that there may be a problem. FWIW, my blood pressure was 110/80 when I was booked in, and has been as high as 122/90 without anyone really worrying (they were a bit concerned by that reading, but as everything else was ok they didn't get too worked up, and when it was checked a week later it was fine).

Hi

Many thanks for your replies. I agree that worrying about my blood pressure is likely to increase it further so I will try to put it to the back of my mind until my appointment next week. Obviously I will see what it is then and then ask the consultant. If anyone else has any thoughts on the subject I would be very interested to hear them.

Thanks
p2b

I terminated a triploidy pregnancy at 5 months last year in July. It was horribly traumatic and I am 12 weeks pregnant again and from the last scan all looked fine but I am still awaiting nucal results. I am considering having an amnio just to set my mind at rest. I think in our sitation everything can be quite worrying given what we have experienced but we need to take it day by day. Have you considered an amnio?

My blood pressure has stayed at my pre pregnancy level of about 120/80 normally during the initial stages of pregnancy it drops to something over 70 or 60 mine never did.

It is normal if you are feeling stressed for the upper figure to go up when you are stressed. It is normally the lower figure going up to 90 or higher they worry more about

Hi

I have just realised that this thread has re-surfaced. Just wanted to give an update.

I am now 22 weeks and all seems to be well. The consultant was confident that this baby was not affected by Triploidy pretty early on and the 20 week scan has shown that all is as it should be at this stage.

Interestingly my blood pressure has gone down the last couple of times it has been taken (possibly because I have now fianlly got the 20 wk scan out of the way) so I'm trying not to worry about that.

lolalola77 - congratulations. So sorry to hear about your previous loss but I'm so pleased all is progressing well now. I didn't have any blood tests in the end. The consultant recommended regular scans instead and I followed his lead. I don't think I'll ever stop worrying but I am feeling far more optimistic now - dare I say excited even.

Take care

p2b I quite understand the not stopping worrying. I lost a girl at 18 weeks and it has taken me 15 years to get pregnant again. I still only half believe it but getting past the 18 week stage when I lost Olga was a relief but not quite as much as I expected. I don't think I will believe this little one is ok until I am holding the in my arms.