Jeanee Rose Andrewartha

I was 27 and was having my 3rd son after 17 hours of labor I had to have a csection I was sent home 3 days later only 24 hours after going home I began having sever pain in my right chest and difficult breathing I returned to the hospital and was admitted for elevated wbc and observation I was misdiagnosed several times and even had an explotory surgery to try and figure out what

I found your page while doing "researh". I'll expand on this story later but I'm an older student (56!) and having to do a powerpoint on a body system for my human biology class. I picked cardiovascular/Heart. Meg was 23 yrs old when diagnosed in spring 1989 with PPCM (after birth of second child). She was in the Army and the docs thought she had bronchitis or maybe

My family has many heart problems.  I was told that this was not related.  I had my son December 19th, 1994.  I was VERY Swollen and thirsty all the time.  I saw a cardiologist when I was around 3 months pregnant since I had previously had heart surgery as a child for an ASD.  I was told I should be fine to go through labor.  A few weeks before childbirth since I was so swollen,

My name is Kelly and I am 28 years old and a mother to 3 beautiful children.  I have two boys from a previous marriage and on April 17th 2013 I had my beautiful baby girl.  The pregnancy was very easy except having to have a third c-section due to me having a solitary pelvic kidney.    Towards the end of the pregnancy I had a lot of fainting spells but the doctors told me not

hello, my name is crystal I wanted to share my story with everyone that has been diagnosed with ppcm.on Thursday September 4,2014 I went in to the hospital for a repeated c section I was VERY VERY nervous about having the surgery done Again !that whole week I was trying not to think of the surgery.the time had finally came to go into surgery the anesthgeologist gave me my doses of anesthesia

I got pregnant after nine months of trying back in 2010 with no fertility drugs – a win for someone with PCOS - but I had a very difficult pregnancy.  I was bed rested with preeclampsia at the end of my second tri, but I was told that nothing besides the high BP was wrong with me or with our son.  I had gained very little weight due to morning (really, all day and all night)

I started my family later in life, I am now 39 and just had my second daughter in January 2015.  The pregnancy was very normal, as was my first.  I have always had normal to low blood pressure and have always been normally healthy.  A couple days after my daughter was born, my blood pressure started to rise while still in the hospital.  They kept me an extra day to see if it would go

I was having problems with my pregnancy,I had pre eclampsia and high blood pressure, headaches and protein in my urine.For the last few month of my pregnancy I was on bed rest,and was spending life in hopital being monitored an then home for a few days.I reached week 37 and had a natural birth to start with then an emergency causeriun after the baby became in distress.My son was my

I'm going on 9 years with ppcm , I have been threw tons (no one should ever have to go threw) The  tests , doctors, hospital stays , tears, heart ache and the mental wellbeing of this all . I'm very thankful I'm still here for my life and my kids . I'm blessed to have an amazing support  even if they don't understand The fears I have are so

I am a 34 year old married woman with 2 beautiful young girls and a handsome little boy....all ages 8, 4 & 1. In January of 2014 I had my 3rd child, a son. I have had Endometriosis since I was in High School and becoming pregnant was difficult for me. But God gave me 3 miracle babies. In January of 2014 my husband and I had decided that with all the pain I

I was 1 day post c-section when I went into heart failure after having my 1st child.  I woke up having trouble breathing and could feel my chest rattle with every breath i took.  I am a respiratory therapist so I knew something wasnt right.  After an x-ray, echo and tons of blood work and txs i was transfered to the CICU at Abington Memorial Hospital where I spent 2.5 days on heart meds

My name is Tanesha and I want to tell my niece’s story.  My niece, Heather, had 3 beautiful children already and did not plan to have more children.  Needless to say we (me and my family members) were surprised when she announced her 4th pregnancy at the age of 29.  We, including Heather, were even more surprised to discover it was twins.  The pregnancy went fairly well with few complications.  About 5 weeks before

Feb, 22nd 2013 I gave birth to my lovely son. My pregnancy had been pretty normal, better than most I'd even say since I didn't get sick much. However towards the end I did develop carpal tunnel because of the extra fluid, which went away after the birth. About 3months after I had my son I noticed my heart beat was irregular and quite fast. I would just be sitting there

I was only 18 years old when I have birth to beautiful brown eyed little girl . Sept 3, 2001 was one of the happiest days of my life! I had carried my daughter full term perfect pregnancy I even worked up till the night my water broke! 2 am I woke in labor got to the hospital and they confirmed my baby was ready to be introduced into this world! labor was normal for the

PPCM It's been a huge year and a long time coming with an update. I hope everyone is doing well. The website is now ranked on page one for terms such as PPCM, Postpartum Cardiomyopathy and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, a dream come true which means that anyone googling those terms is able to find us easily and get support, connect with other heart sisters, find information and read the all-important PPCM stories. There are