Gestational Hypertension to PP PE
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Cont.. to do certain things. Allow yourself to recover. My numbers are now back to normal and I feel so so much better, have been for a while. I still have flashbacks taking my BP, but learning to cope with it. It’ll feel like hell for now, but soon you’ll be able to enjoy life again, like with your new baby.
It’s been 6 days and I’m still in the hospital, they won’t release me until they find out the right dosage and type of medication will keep my BP down. I’m just ready to go home with my baby and annoyed that I keep being told its protocol to use this specific medication that obviously isn’t working for me, finally got someone to put me on a different medication that seems to be working. But won’t know until tomorrow. I’ve never really understood this condition and still don’t. Doctors can’t give me a reason for it, just that my BP is high and won’t come down and that some times it just happens.
I was induced at 38 weeks due to hypertension. Gave birth 38+2, went home two days later, returned 3 days after that with PPE. Spent almost two days in the hospital on the mag drip/recovering. It was incredibly mentally taxing. I felt like I failed my child. The mag drip hit me like a bus, I was exhausted for weeks. Probably took me almost a month to start feeling like myself again. I was so exhausted, I wasn’t waking up to my baby crying at night. Id wake up to my husband already taking care of him, which I both appreciated and also hated bc shouldn’t I be the one waking up at every move and sound? All I did was lay in bed, I had to force myself to get up. I’m 7m postpartum now and I wish I had given myself more grace. Learn to forgive yourself, it was all out of your control. Seek therapy if you have to. Accept help from family and friends. Going through preeclampsia is incredibly taxing, both mentally and physically, forgive yourself if you don’t have the energy….