how does preclampsia affect the baby?
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The more severe your preeclampsia and the earlier it occurs in your pregnancy, the greater the risks for both you and your baby. Most women who get preeclampsia develop a mild version near their due date and they and their babies do fine with proper care. But when preeclampsia is severe, it can affect many organs and cause serious or even life-threatening problems. That's why you'll need to deliver early if your condition is severe or getting worse.\nPreeclampsia causes your blood vessels to constrict, resulting in high blood pressure and a decrease in blood flow that can affect many organs in your body, such as your liver, kidneys, and brain. When less blood flows to your uterus, it can mean problems for your baby, such as poor growth, decreased amniotic fluid, and placental abruption — when the placenta separates from the uterine wall before delivery. In addition, your baby may suffer the effects of prematurity if you need to deliver early to protect your health.
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If there's no bleeding then you're probably ok... the uterus is linked to the abdominal wall by uterine ligaments...during pregnancy, the changing shape of the uterus causes these ligaments to stretch, which can be painful.\n\nDuring my pregnancies, I'd have that sort of pain off and on for the first couple of months...
860803
You're OBGYN knows best. She or he wouldnt be prescribing htings that would harm the baby. Go ahead and help yourself get out of pain, take the vicodin that was prescribed. Hope this helps!!! Hope you feel better fast!
524856
At some point, the weight of the baby presses down on your blood vessels and reduces blood supply to the baby.\n\nSleep on your left side for maximum blood flow to the region.
66828
Well, after your ovary discharges an egg, and it travels down the fallopian tube, if it isn't fertilized, the lining in your uterus (flesh and blood that collects to give a baby nutrients) begins to shed. That is why you cramp when you have your period. Then the body begins to collect a new bed for the next egg to attach to. After another month, the process begins again.
447873
Hmm i'd get another opinion but it sounds to me as though your baby may just be ready to enter the world. Labour pains feel much like period cramps just much weaker. Try some tradiotnal forms of dilating including intercourse. If youre worried seek more advice but im sure you and baby are just fine...good luck...
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I have one baby. On my due date I was measured at 3 cm dialated. 4 days later, my water broke (on its own) and I started having contractions 8 minutes apart. An hour later they were 5 minutes apart, and an hour later they were 4 minutes apart. Then the midwife said to come in, and I had my son 6 hrs and 20 min after my water broke. I had him at a free-standing birth center, so I had no drugs or anything to alter my labor.
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Things like cramping, bleeding, visual distrubances like seeig falshing lights, dizziness, swollen ankles fingers wrists etc can all inidicate a problem.  But if you're concerned about anything udring your pregnancy, please please see your doctor! it's better to go to the doctor over nothing than to ignore something thaat might turn out to be serious.
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The hormone oxytocin stimulates and enhances labor contractions. As the baby moves toward the vagina (birth canal), pressure receptors within the cervix (muscular outlet of uterus) send messages to the brain to produce oxytocin. Oxytocin travels to the uterus through the bloodstream, stimulating the muscles in the uterine wall to contract stronger (increase of ideal normal value). The contractions intensify and increase until the baby is outside the birth canal. When the stimulus to the pressure receptors ends, oxytocin production stops and labor contractions cease.
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I went through maternity once... and yes, your insides really do get "pushed" up higher, so you might get a lot of wacky sensations, like that thump, thump, thump in your neck from changes in regional blood pressure.... very unpleasant.\nBut it's perfectly natural.
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nobody can tell if your doctor was right or wrong unless we have access to your complete medical record (and maybe not even then). \n\nwith a complicated pregnancy (as yours was) doctors have to weigh risks of delivery or c-section versus benefits. the fact that you had swelling even before the delivery meant that you were having problems BEFORE the delivery, not just during. it may have been that your doctor thought the potential complications of a c-section, given your heart condition, were more risky than simply inducing your delivery. \n\nCHF during prenancy is a horrible and unavoidable pregnancy complication. it just happens sometimes, and they are working on finding out why. it is nothing your doctor did, and based on what you have provided, I don't see any reason to think your doctor did the wrong thing. \n\nwhat I think you had is also called "peripartum cardiomyopathy" (translates to "during pregnancy, something wrong with the heart muscle")\n\nhere is a link for more info.
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You're not abnormal in having heavy periods, both my mum and i have it really heavy.  i find for the first two days i have to use super plus, cos a super isn't enough - 30 mins is about my limit too.  having a baby weakens the pelvic muscles as well as changing period patterns.  if you're really worried see a doctor, but you're certainly not alone!
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I have the same thing.  If you talk to your OB/GYN they can prescribe a pain medicine for when you have cramps.  Also, be very careful if you are trying to conceive.  It can cause problems for you and the baby.  This has caused me to have two ectopic pregnancies.  Make sure that your doctor does an ultrasound as soon as possible to ensure the baby is in the correct place.\n\nWhile many individuals do benefit from the laser surgery, endometriosis can return after the surgery.  With my first surgery, they removed as much as possible and it was back within two years.
572779
Oh course it can hurt the baby!  An infants feck muscles are not very stong at all, and the head is much larger and heavier than our heads in proportion to our bodies.  \n\nShe needs to stop before she breaks her childs neck!
851009
This sounds very familiar to me!  The same thing happened to me in my pregnancies #2 and #3.  Here's what my doctor advised me:  first, the cramps are a sign that your body needs more potassium.  Eat more bananas; that will help restore the missing potassium to your body.  Second, when you get into bed and the cramps start, what you do is (this may be hard to describe in written words; wish I could just show you how) straighten the cramping leg all the way out, while pulling your toes in, toward you.  In other words, you want to straighten your leg, pushing your heel "out" as far as you can while pulling your toes "in" as far as you can.  Hold that for a few seconds, until the cramp goes away.  This works; I know it did for me.
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It is my understanding that most pregnancies end up miscarrying very early on.  Now that we are finding out about pregnancies sooner, we are also finding out about the losses sooner.  This is normal.\n\nYour mother's ability to carry a baby to term shouldn't affect you.  However, if you are pregnant or are considering getting pregnant, go to an obstetrician or a midwife for an appointment to discuss your concerns and to get a complete checkup.  That way you can guarantee your (and your baby's) health.
583469
Whoops!\nThat is going to irritate and fester a swelling. It'll be stuck and you will need to have a c-section and give birth to it.\nGood luck!