{"id":7410,"date":"2013-02-07T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=7410"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:59:53","slug":"its-official-i-have-pre-eclampsia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/its-official-i-have-pre-eclampsia\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Official: I Have Pre-Eclampsia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, it’s my first pregnancy all over again – kind of. \u00a0(Insert obligatory Deja-vu Matrix reference<\/a> here.)<\/p>\n

I just returned from the ‘daycare’ (aka non-stress testing\/monitoring) at the hospital. \u00a0There I was informed that my 24-hour urine sample results had enough protein to qualify me as having crossed the threshold from just having ‘gestational hypertension<\/a>‘ into having ‘pre-eclampsia<\/a>‘ (me\u00f0g\u00f6ngueitrun<\/a>). \u00a0Oh fun!<\/p>\n

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Being ‘monitored’, one sensor is for the baby’s heart-rate, the other for (uterine) muscle contractions. I wonder if it’s the blood pressure medication, but there have been a whole lot less contractions now than when I carried Anna. Weird.<\/p><\/div>\n

When I crossed this threshold in the US, I was officially at 38w5d, and was basically given two hours to get my butt to the hospital to be induced. \u00a0Now I’m at 37w5d (ultrasound estimate, the old-style calendar method would put me at 38w1d), which is ‘full term’, but the docs apparently are in no hurry to induce.<\/p>\n

Yes, it would seem like the docs really rather prefer not to induce previous c-section women. \u00a0And since I have no actual physical ‘symptoms’ of pre-eclampsia (headache, vision flicks, abdominal pain, nausea), and my blood-pressure is behaving itself on the current medication, I’m being put on a ‘wait-and-see’ schedule.<\/p>\n

As of right now, I’m to come back this Monday for a blood-test and monitoring. \u00a0If everything looks mostly ok at that point, then I’m to show up again on Thursday, and at that point they’ll probably start discussing induction for realz.<\/p>\n

This plan is of course contingent on me staying\u00a0asymptomatic. \u00a0If I do develop a headache, funny vision, abdominal pain, nausea, or if I notice less movements, then to the hospital I go.<\/p>\n

Better go practice not being paranoid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yup, it’s my first pregnancy all over again – kind of. \u00a0(Insert obligatory Deja-vu Matrix reference here.) I just returned from the ‘daycare’ (aka non-stress testing\/monitoring) at the hospital. \u00a0There I was informed that my 24-hour urine sample results had enough protein to qualify me as having crossed the threshold from just having ‘gestational hypertension‘Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7413,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions\/7413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}