I had an uneventful pregnancy, no indication that I suffered from any cardiac issues. This was my second child, the older son was born 16 years earlier. I was 32 years old.My son was born 3 weeks early of his expected delivery date via vaginal delivery , nonetheless he was
• 1 min readHi All, My name is Carmen and I was diagnosed with PPCM in October 2015. My EF at that time was 50 %. I was re-evaluated in February 2016 and EF was then 47%. After trial and errors with various medications, I stuck with Losartan 25 MG. My EF recently became
• 1 min readMackenzie was my second baby. She was born 8 years to the day after my oldest daughter, on Saturday, February 16th, 2013. Yes, my girls have the same birthday, that's my fun fact. My pregnancy was normal, for the most part. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes about
• 3 min readMy story starts with the birth of my daughter on February 21 2016. I went in for my induction and found out I had preclampsia. After a successful birth and healthy baby my blood pressure came down and they sent me home. Seven days later my blood pressure shot up
• 1 min readMy name is Khristi. I am a mother and this is my heart story. In the summer of 2015 I had a beautiful 15 year old daughter at home and learned I was pregnant with my 2nd child, a precious boy. I was overjoyed but had a looming fear throughtout
• 2 min readfter the birth of my first child, a girl, in 2004 I was quite ill. The labour was difficult and I lost a lot of blood due to hemorrhaging. About a week after my daughter was born I began to have difficulty breathing, particularly when lying down. I had extreme
• 2 min readWhere to start... This was my third pregnancy at the age of 33. I had delivered my other two boys the total natural way with midwives and no drugs and I wanted to deliver this pregnancy the same. Unfortunately I moved towards the end of my pregnancy and there were
• 4 min readHello my name is Sara , This is my story in 2013 I got pregnant I had a healthy pregnancy up until 36weeks I then started getting high blood pressure and swollen in my legs and feet. My Ob was watching me closely until I gave birth to my beautiful healthy
• 1 min readI had the easiest pregnancy ever. I went to every prenatal appointment and was the picture of health...or so i thought. Towards the end of my pregnancy, I began go randomly feel my heart skip beats and I'd get light headed. I spoke to my OB and
• 2 min readJune 9th, 2014: The day we found out we were pregnant. February 17th, 2015: Due Date. February 24th, 2015: The date my precious baby, Nash William, was born. March 1st, 2015: Admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and possible PE. And the date that will forever rock my world.... March
• 3 min readI tried my best to get pregnant due to other health concerns that would cause me to have a hysterectomy and luckily I found out at 5 weeks that I was going to be a mom all over again. It was a rough pregnancy due to bleeding up until 20
• 2 min readMy name is Lauren and I'm 23 yours old. I got pregnant at 21 and had my beautiful baby girl at 22. During my pregnancy it was fairly normal outside of having high blood pressure. I carried my daughter well and she was very healthy. I gave birth
• 1 min readWhen I was a young girl I never dreamed the day I became pregnant would forever change my life in a negative way. I was over come with joy after learning I was pregnant... I had friends and family with new babies which were perfectly healthy and happy. Not me.
• 9 min readHello, my name is Jamie and I was diagnosed with postpartum cardiomyopathy, at the age of 20, a week after the birth of my second child in August of 2000. I am going to give some detail here and there hoping that it might help someone else. With my first
• 6 min readI am a 35 year old African American woman, whom gave birth to a beautiful baby boy (my 4th pregnancy and my husband and I's 5th child between us - last child) in February of this year. I had no real issues during my pregnancy outside of constant
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