blood pressure readings

and i wasnt rushing to get there though guess i was a bit nervous?

yeah she is always saying to bring him but i dont for that exact reason:) I'm such a worrier but just trying not to ! last time i had 3x weekly blood tests for PE and never actually got it but got induced due to pre PE in the end..so i guess i can just rest and keep and eye on it..

i never had headaches or anything last time do you get them? does it matter my BP started so low?

I got lots of headaches the week before my bp went up and blurry vision, LOL I had switched glasses and thought it was that (even tho same prescription) silly me! I didnt feel right either, not sick, just not right. Put that down to being 38 weeks pg! turns out it was PE...my swelling was within normal ranges apparently (although looking at photos I disagree I looked like I had been blown up with a bicycle pump) but my bp only went up a tad.

I am not sure what you can do about so not much help there, but mine sat at around 130/80 from about 20 weeks onward and didnt change until 38 weeks. I guess if you get any symptoms then call your mw asap.

Someone will have some info re things to do to help keep your bp down I am sure. Being calm does help though. I would get so nervous that they wouldnt hear the heartbeat that my mw checked that before anything else otherwise my bp was through the roof.

Gosh, I wasnt much help was I...

Hi KA

My MW told me that your BP can lower in the first half of pregnancy before it gradually goes back up to "normal" again. Your last BP reading is still good so I wouldn't worry about it. With Emily my BP was quite low at the start of my pregnancy 100/50. 110/60 was as high as it got and even went as low as 90/40 one reading!! Up until 28 weeks it averaged 100/50, so it was very surprising for everyone when I ended up with sudden severe PE at 30 weeks with BP of 160/105!!!

This time round my BP before pregnancy was around 110/80. First reading at 4 weeks it was 110/75, and it's gradually gotten lower to 100/60 at last reading a couple of weeks ago. So I wouldn't be surprised if next reading it went back up slightly, although I will start to worry if it got over 120/90.   

But yeah definitely try not to stress too much about things or try to cram too much in your life, like I did with Emily. At 27 weeks I had my wedding, moved house at 28 weeks (which was a disaster and I ended up in tears and frustrated - long story), combined with the summer heat, existing oedema I was suffering and the stress I was under at work, it's probably not that surprising I ended up with sudden high BP and PE.

Oh and by the way the top number is not too much for concern. In pregnancy it's the lower number they worry about if it gets too high. So if the "normal" lower number for you is 80, then it'd be cause for concern if it got over say 95.

One reading, I wouln't even worry about and it wasn't that high (well high enough for a PE alert). If you were getting your bottom number over 90 for a few readings in a row (as in every 20-30 minutes for a few hours) then I would be getting worried. As someone who had it in both pregnancies your Uric Acid levels are something that will be the big trigger to be sent away for OB testing.

trud thanks:)

yeah peanut- she said (the OB at CWH) that my chances were 4% from most studies and up to 30% from one study she read..

it was such an issue and I only ever got pre PE that i can't imagine what it's like getting full on PE...

I am over my freakout and the fact my brother is having spinal surgery (though neck surgery to fuse c1 /c2) 1st..was really making me worried I think...I'm trying to relax about it as much as I can.. he's in great hands and is doing well atm.

Yeah it was probably the stress, is a big worry having your brother in surgery and yep she would have been covering her bases by going over the symptoms again.

Yay for hearing the heartbeat

yeah true peanut....as she didnt do my care last time taking the book in for her to read over again so she can see what happened exactly..by your stage i was on 3x weekly bloods..

cuppatea- yeah was great:)