is there anything i can do to reduce the swelling in my face?

[mad4mybaby]

All is ok but 35 weeks and my face is swelling. My hands have been for a while but not bothered about that. My face makes me look fatter (i know not the time to be bothered but i am) i am already drinking alot of water, dont really have salt, is there anything i can do?

How is your bp?? swollen hands and face can be a sign of pre-eclampsia. It happened to me and my face was the only thing that swelled up. You don't have any frontal headaches or visual disturbances do you? If you do I would go straight to hospital, if not make an appt to get your bp checked tomorrow.

i would ring your MW in the morning tbh. like trixie says it could be a sign of pre eclampsia (or it could be nothing but better to be safe )

I had swollen feet, ankles, hands, face and neck in late pregnancy. My blood pressure was slightly high but I had no protein in my urine.

My bump was also massive but dd was only 7lb 1oz. I just carried alot of water.

Best to get your bp checked like trixie says as it could be pre eclampsia. My bp etc was checked weekly.

i actually have quite low bp and have through out the pg, was checked on sunday....

Another one here saying get it checked - I had swelling but nothing we'd noticed until afterwards as it had all crept on slowly but looking back at the photos of me at 34/35 weeks I was quite swollen. I did end up having pre-eclampsia.

As the others have said - get it checked just in case but it might also be nothing.

Has your face swelled up since Sunday?

erm... i hadnt noticed it was swollen until today although dh reckons it has been for a while and just didnt want to tell me! My hands have been fairly swollen from early pg as havent been able to wear rings from about 2 months! I did swell alot with ds1 and my bump is huge and have been told i have 'plenty of fluid'

I had loads of fluid when I was in late pregnancy and my face looked awful. Just keep thinking it will go back to normal after the birth

Probably best to get checked out just in case x

I had this so badly I really didn't look like myself. My blood pressure was fine. It went away three weeks after the baby was born thank goodness. My feet and legs were so bad that I couldn't even fit into wellies one size bigger than normal. It will go away, honestly!