Some of my story gets jumbled and fuzzy because I didn't understand what was happening. I will do my best to tell it the best I can remember. Thinking of this brings tears to my eyes and I have been putting this off for awhile now...I joined
• 7 min readThe title to my story comes from a logo on a tshirt I saw recently, and I think it fits this type of cardiomyopathy perfectly. I had my first two children at a young age, I'm 34 and they are now 17 and 13. I had no complications
• 8 min readI've put this story off for quite some time. Some things I wish I could forget. Some things are quite blurry. Until myheartsisters, I can tell my story to someone, but it never quite sunk in. It's like being a mom, you don't know
• 7 min readAfter reading stories from other PPCM patients, I realize that I am one of the lucky ones... My due date was March 5, 2012. On March 19th, I waddled into the maternity unit for an induction at 2:30 in the afternoon. Other than being two weeks over due, I
• 3 min readHi there! It was January 2013 that i was diagnosed with this illness, 2 months after i gave birth to my first child. On new years eve, i have difficulty in breathing due to my dry cough. The next day i went to the hospital and they found out that
• 1 min readApologize my english. This was very difficult to me, like when I was diagnosed with diabetes type II. My first months of pregnancy were very good, but at my 35 week I was diagnose with preclamsia and the doctors send me to the hospital to stay there until my 37
• 1 min readMy name is Vanessa and I was diagnosed with PPCM Feb 27th of 2013, 2.5 months after the birth of my son and 3 weeks after his passing. My son was born very ill due to a random genetic deletion that we found through genetic testing that caused his
• 3 min readThursday November 22, 2012 was the day that changed my world. Its thanksgiving and the first full day that we own our new house in rancho. The evening comes and we go to sue and mikes for thanksgiving dinner. I'm feeling uncomfortable and still swollen in my feet
• 16 min readMy first (and only) pregnancy was a complicated one. It didn't start that way. It began as all first time pregnancies begin, with joy, hope, fear, and love. A new life, a new adventure. We were excitied with all the possibilities new life brings. Around my fourth month
• 8 min readI had been married 6 months when I found out I was pregnant. I was excited! I absolutely loved children and had spent my young career as a teacher for children with special needs. My big dream was simple. I wanted to marry and have a family of my own.
• 4 min readI couldn't have been happier to see a positive pregnancy test only 2 months after going off birth control. The first 34 weeks of my pregnancy couldn't have been any more perfect. All tests came back as good as possible, we were expecting our first child,
• 3 min readOn April 4, 2013 I gave birth to boy/girl twins as a gestational surrogate. I had been sick with upper resp infection/sinus infection/allergies for many weeks starting with my 29th week of pregnancy and ending around my 34th. I also had low potassium as well. Then around
• 4 min readi had a really long, painful, horrible labor and birth...as most women do. I went a week over with my little girl, it was the worst week of my life.. i was in so much pain and didnt sleep a wink in the whole week! i hated night times,
• 2 min readMy story starts four months into my pregnancy when I made the first of three emergency trips to the hospital. All of our trips began with what appeared to be benign symptoms: a nosebleed that wouldn’t clot, a cough thought to be pneumonia, and severe headaches. But at each
• 2 min readI would just like to send an encouraging message to any woman suffering from PPCM. I was diagnosed in July of 2005, when my son was born. It was the most horrific and terrifing experience of my life. I almost didn't survive, but by the grace of God,
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