My Son's Birth Was Nearly Perfect, But Days Later I Almost Died. These Are The Symptoms You Should Never Ignore.
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My Son's Birth Was Nearly Perfect, But Days Later I Almost Died. These Are The Symptoms You Should Never Ignore.

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Our second night home from the hospital was still an awe-inspiring flurry of excitement. “Something doesn’t feel right,” I said and asked if he still had the blood pressure cuff his mother, a neonatologist, had given him a few weeks earlier. Postpartum preeclampsia is a serious and sometimes fatal condition related to having high blood pressure in the days or weeks after giving birth. We just need to stabilize your blood pressure.” “There are women with postpartum preeclampsia in the ICU?” I asked. Symptoms may include vision changes, a headache that won’t go away, shortness of breath, pain in your upper belly, nausea and/or vomiting, decreased urination, and high blood pressure.

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Dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy is becoming a bigger problem
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Dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy is becoming a bigger problem

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