Pregnancy Complications Reviews

This is not really a review more the story of my son?s traumatic arrival into the world and his subsequent fight for survival. I hope some of my experiences will be of help to other although everyone?s experience is unique. My day had started normally enough. I had got up, showered and dressed ready to go to work. I had been feeling a ...  Read the complete review

Ten days into January 2003, my period was late so I decided to do a pregnancy test. For the 3 minutes it takes for the test to work I paced up and down the floor while my hubby tried to concentrate on playing a computer game. We waited and waited, when we saw the pink line on the test stick we danced around the room like a couple of idiots. I was ...  Read the complete review

Hi I am Carla, I had a baby in february this year,so he is about five and half months old now. When I was pregnant at 30 weeks I started to suffer from really bad back, pelvis and groin pain, every two weeks I went to my antenatal appointments and I complained of the same pain, the doctor said I wasn't getting enough rest and that this was ...  Read the complete review

Not something I had any intention of ebcoming an expert in, but life does like to do these things to a person. What is it? A pregnancy complaint. Pre-eclampsia is the warm up act for eclampsia, which is a very nasty beasty indeed. Eclampsia means organ failure and fits. This in turn is going to harm your baby. Pre eclampsia is enough of a ...  Read the complete review

The desire for a child can be overwhelming.And for women who feel they are running out of time to have a family,the noise of their biological clock can be deafening. But while at least one in six couples have trouble conceiving,theres no need to panic if women fail to get pregnant in their first year of trying,statistics show that most ...  Read the complete review

I just want to share with you how my first pregnancy ended, 8 years ago when 30 weeks pregnant I bleed quite alot, this was found to be due to placenta previa I ended up in hospital for 6 weeks watching others having babies where I was one of the longest staying patients on the ward. on the 19th of November am it was decided that I would have a C ...  Read the complete review

Whilst expecting my first child, I carried on working like all mothers to be. My job was to sit behind a computer screen all day without a break, so movement in my legs were restricted. I didnt complain because my aim was to get as much work in as possible, enabling me to reach my maternity leave. However, I wasnt doing myself any favours. ...  Read the complete review

You may have read my mums (Harmonyk) opinion on Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD), well I am the pregnant daughter that is suffering from it. So I thought that I should write an opinion from a sufferer’s point of view. It first started when I was around 14 weeks pregnant, I was walking down the road and started getting a very sharp ...  Read the complete review

READ THIS IF YOU'RE PREGNANT!!!! SPD is NOT a Urine Infection! My daughter Katy is pregnant with my first grandchild. Her baby (a girl) is due at the end of November. After the first couple of months Katy started complaining of pains in the pelvis/lower back and hip areas. She went to the GP and she diagnosed a ...  Read the complete review

I am writing the opinion for people who have just got pregnant or are thinking about having a baby. I am currently 33 weeks pregnant and want to express how different things were to how I thought to help others out there. My first unexpected occurance was getting pregnant! My most fertile time of the month wasn't when I thought, so ...  Read the complete review

When I was pregnant with my youngest son, 14 years ago now, there were only a small selection of tests available, far fewer than there are now. I went for the regular blood tests, scans and the like, not realising then that I did not HAVE to have these various tests. Call me naive if you like but I was all but living on my own at the ...  Read the complete review

No one knows their own body better than themselves, so when you feel that something is not right, insist on someone hearing you out! I had my third sone 5 years ago at the age of 37. According to physicians, this is considered "Advanced Maternal Age". It was recommended that I undergo an amniocentesis early in my pregnancy. ...  Read the complete review

The best advice that I could give to anyone is to go into being induced relaxed and with an open minds but also to know when to speak out. I learned this from my own experiences with induction. I went into the hospital 9 days after I was due to give birth to be induced and expected to give birth naturally to a perfect little baby however many ...  Read the complete review

One 3rd of all pregnant women carry the bacteria Group b Streptococcus in the intestines and or vagina, it is usually harmless to the mother but can have devastating effects for the baby once exposed to it during labour. It is not an STD. It may cause meningitis, sepsis (infection of the blood),pneumonia in the newborn and is a recognised ...  Read the complete review

This pregnancy lark seems to be a sinch! A few aches and pains here and there, boyfriend doing up my shoes and not letting me carry too much. (This worked well, as I claimed that the weekly shop was getting to be a chore). Anyway, although I was huge, I was a happy mumma. Soon the time came for our anti-natal classes where I rolled ...  Read the complete review

I would like to share my experience of premature birth with you. Each experience is unique so what I & my baby went through is unique to us, medical procedures, advice I was given & problems were our & ours alone, This opinion is written 15+ years after the event but the feelings still remain & cut deep, though I came through as did Ben. ...  Read the complete review

The doctor looked up from his papers; ”your results have come back, the test was positive, your pregnant”. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, my little boy Jake, was only 12 months old. I was still getting into the routine of being a mum with him. The first few months of the pregnancy where bliss I had no ...  Read the complete review

I am expecting my 4th baby on July 19th 2001. Everything was fine at my 12 week scan but at my 20 week scan I was told that my placenta was slightly low and I would need to come back to be rescanned at 32 weeks to see if it had moved. I never had this problem with my other 3 pregnancies. I worried for the whole 12 weeks about whether the ...  Read the complete review

Those who has read my opinion on miscarriage, will know that I am currently pregnant again. I guess this is a kind of update to that opinion, even if it concerns a different part of my pregnancy. Well, the saga continues, and I had my anatomy scan at 22 weeks. I was told that they could not see baby's face and heart properly, and ...  Read the complete review

I wanted to write this to show that even though you may have many complications, there can still be a happy outcome. With my first son, I conceived after fertility treatment and was delighted!However, by 16 weeks I was swollen, at 20 weeks had a small amount of protein in my urine, and at 24 weeks admitted as an emergency with severe pre ...  Read the complete review