Pregnancy Complications Reviews

I was overjoyed when I discovered I was pregnant at the beginning of last year. Me and my boyfriend had been together just over a year but I knew he was the man I wanted children with so although it was a surprise it was a very happy one. I had bleeding in the first trimester so the doctor did another pregnancy test and sent me for a scan but ...  Read the complete review

After a missed miscarriage at 12 weeks (where they tell you in the scan that the baby actually died previously but for some reason your body has chosen not to discard the baby in the normal way a miscarriage occurs) I was overjoyed to be pregnant again shortly after. The pregnancy progressed well and I only suffered mild morning ...  Read the complete review

I have decided to share my experience of premature birth as I hope it could help others going through the same thing or help prepare parents to be if it does happen to them. I wish I hadn't skipped the section in all my pregnancy books about premature birth thinking oh that wont happen to me! My first 2 pregnancies went without a hitch ...  Read the complete review

I hope I am posting this in the right place but I wanted to share my story. I was only 18 when first finding out that I was pregnant and it wasn't planned. However after talking it through with my parents and boyfriend at the time I knew I wanted to go through with the pregnancy. I went to the doctors and was given all of the ...  Read the complete review

I would say I had quite a good pregnancy, although I will admit I didnt enjoy it as much as I should have!! my childs father and I split wen I was 3mnths pregnant and from then on I carried on all on my own! at the beginning I had the morning sickness feeling but was never actually sick, which can be worse sometimes. this might sound strange, and ...  Read the complete review

I am going to write about pre-eclapsia, this is something that I have had to deal with. I was having a normal pregnancy, working as normal and getting on with preparing for our childs arrival. I was going for my regular check up's with my midwife, which were 2 weekly. i had noticed that parts of my body were swelling up quite a bit, ...  Read the complete review

I have been extremely lucky with my pregnancy so far, and going overdue is among the least serious of any pregnancy complications. But to keep me occupied in my wait, I thought I'd put together a list of things to do if you do go overdue. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Re-calculate your ...  Read the complete review

With my second pregnancy, they started telling me the baby was lying in the breech position - ie bottom down. It was still pretty early - about 6 months and as far as I was concerned, not a worry. I knew that while first pregnancy babies rarely moved, subsequent pregancies often involved a shift in position. Significantly, my ...  Read the complete review

Here I was January 1996 a 6month old daughter and I have just found out I'm pregnante again. i didnt feel they joy that I did the first time round, no sqeeling with delight no dying to tell someone, none of that. I felt scared, alone even though I wasnt. needless to say it didnt take long for all those feelings to go. in fact as time went by a ...  Read the complete review

My problem in pregnancy wasn't as major as some as the ones that are out there. I had 3 scans with the hospital 8 weeks, 14 weeks and 20 weeks and all was fine, the community midwife I saw was happy with the way my pregnancy was progressing but my bump was small. I had a 4D scan at 26 weeks where they noticed our little girl was ...  Read the complete review

Half way through my second pregnancy my husband and I decided that we would try to have a homebirth. Apart from an induction and really long laour with my first child everything went smoothly and there was no reason why not. Although I knew you shouldn't get your heart set on anything when it comes to giving birth I was really excited at the ...  Read the complete review

In order to have a complication free pregnancy, labour and birth ideally your baby should turn so that it's head is down (cephalic) from about 38 weeks gestation. Unfortunately some babies have other ideas and will stay in the breech (head up) or transverse (across) position. Unfortunately if the baby is transverse there is no way it's coming out ...  Read the complete review

This review is about my experience of Gestational Diabetes. Gestational diabetes affects quite a few women in pregnancy, however you are more prone the older you are and the more over weight you are. Diabetes develops when the body can't produce enough insulin, made naturally be the pancreas. Insulin regulates the amount of sugar ...  Read the complete review

The pregnancy complication I am writing about is pre-eclampsia. I have personal experience of pre-eclampsia as I suffered fromt it during my first pregnancy, it is an unpleasent illness and is life threatening to both mother and baby. I has a very smoothe 1st pregnancy , that was untill I reached 29 weeks gestation and began ...  Read the complete review

"Pregnant already? So soon! Well that's nice . . .'' After hearing this a few dozen times I really began to wonder what on earth people mean by it. It is a jab at my apparent eagerness to have a child right after marriage or an implication that I'm one of 'those people' who do nothing with their lives but produce children? ...  Read the complete review

Pregnancy ups mostly and a few downs…. Nearly there! So, I am 41 weeks and 1 day pregnant. This is my first and so all of this is new to me. I have been feeling a bit down and a lot crabby this week as I am over due, so I am writing this review. My aim is to share my experience and hope that it helps other people in whatever way, and also to ...  Read the complete review

I could never say that my pregnancies were easy, but the end results were definitely worth it. I suffered from two conditions during my four pregnancies, I’ve already written about the one that affected ME (but not the babies) the most, Hyperemesis (a severe form of morning sickness that lasted throughout my pregnancies) and now I’m going to tell ...  Read the complete review

Here's just a suggestion as to what to do if you are rapidly approaching your due date and your baby is breech on the scans, as my son was. The tendency is for the midwives to immediately start talking about ECV (external something version?) which is a manual turning of the baby. Or they start to mention C-sections. ECV apparently isn't as bad ...  Read the complete review

I was very excited when expecting my first baby, however as a young mum I knew I was more at risk of complications than other mums. My preganancy went fairly well untill I was around 26 weeks pregnant. I suddenly found I was becoming dizzy and feeling sick quite often, I put it down to being pregnant, afterall the pregnancy guides I read ...  Read the complete review

The thing that upsets me most about the experience that I am about to relate is that I did everything right - I have never smoked, I am not a huge drinker - I even forwent my traditional stilton with my cheese and biscuits for my Christmas dinner the year I was pregnant with Emily. Strangely, even ...  Read the complete review