Severe pre eclampsia or hellp syndrome in second pregnancy?

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I am now 10 weeks pregnant with second baby and we are over the moon, however in my first pregnancy I developed severe pre eclampsia and then hellp syndrome. This led to having my first born at 32 weeks by emergency c section. Just looking for any stories of anyone who had this the first time round and went on to have a 2nd pregnancy without this. Or if you did have it a second time, how was it managed? All of a sudden I'm petrified of it happening again! Thanks for any advice.

Similar story here, delivered at 32 weeks 2 days, second pregnancy 2 years later, elective Caesarian booked for 38 weeks, developed high bp two days before planned section date. Was monitored and delivered as planned. I was monitored a lot during pregnancy anyway due to high risk and previous history. I was fine afterwards too. Good luck and I hope you don’t worry too much. I feel for you. I remember how I felt and friends and family made it worse by asking if it would happen again, would I deliver early etc

I'm 20+5 second pregnancy and at the moment have low BP so complete opposite to first pregnancy up to now.

First one I developed pre eclampsia so I'm being kept a close eye on but mine wasn't as extreme as yours - no eclampsia or HELLP.

Wishing you a healthy pregnancy this time round.

I’m on my second pregnancy too 17+3 and wondering if PE will appear again. I wouldn’t count mine as severe the first time in terms of how I felt. My bp increased from 30 weeks, had medication. Weekly checks, my blood tests were going downhill, my bp high but I felt well. By 34+5 the hospital decided i needed to have the baby very soon and couldn’t leave and on 35+0 I had him.

We both went downhill on that day and ended up emcs. I couldn’t wee anymore, apparently my kidneys and/or bladder was very bad on the blood test, I had swollen feet/face/hands and I had high bp and protein in urine. I didn’t have seizures though. DS had completely stopped moving, and his ctg was static which made it a emcs. I was fine after the birth though.

Im on asprin this time, also the consultant said it’s only 15% chance of it happening again. She did say though that incudes all stats of early and late PE. That because mine started from 30 weeks it’s on the earlier side. They are checking the blood flow of my womb at 24 weeks with a uterine Doppler- apparently it can indicate if PE is likely to occur again.

I forgot to add- earlier in that pregnancy the placenta was over my cervix, and by 31 weeks it had moved up. So I wonder if the movement maybe reduced the placentas efficiency and caused PE that way? They don’t really know why it happens other than it’s to do with the placenta, (and possibly DH’s dna being foreign to the body since subsequent pregnancies with the same partner can reduce the chance- not sure how true this is).