She thought it was just pregnancy puffiness

by Vicky Hallett August 2Cathryn Scheipers did not want to get on that train to New York. It was a Sunday night in moncler saldi uomo December 2014, and the commercial real estate professional had an important conference the next morning. But she felt zonked. She felt swollen.She felt pregnant.It was nothing like the then 29 year old Washingtonian had expected. She’s one of four siblings, and her mom always reminded them of how much she adored her pregnancies. “She would have put us back in the womb,” Scheipers jokes.When she and her husband, Greg, decided they were ready for a child, she was in tiptop physical shape; she had run three marathons in 2013. piumini moncler uomo She waited for the magic to begin. Instead, Scheipers says, it was like a permanent hangover. She kept running, but her energy levels plummeted. She never developed a cute popped belly. “I just looked like I ate too much pizza the night before,” she says, despite maintaining a healthy diet. At one appointment, a doctor took note of her puffiness piumini moncler and recommended that she “cut back on the cupcakes.”['Is this normal?' Carpal tunnel, hair loss, kidney stones and other pregnancy issues.]There was a scare at about 16 weeks, when a blood test showed she had elevated levels of alpha fetoprotein (AFP), a possible sign of spina bifida. At a follow up, the fetus was cleared but her blood pressure was surprisingly high, so a doctor asked how she was feeling. “I’m here getting my baby tested for spina bifida,” she responded. piumini moncler outlet “How do you moncler outlet think I am?”No one at her OB/GYN practice which rotates patients through all of its doctors raised any other red flags.So Scheipers, who was 25 weeks pregnant, squeezed her swollen calves into boots and boarded that train to New York. After an uncomfortable, sleepless night, she met up with her team at breakfast. Her co workers greeted her with funny looks and urged her to contact her doctor’s office.When she started seeing stars, Scheipers decided they might be right. Her doc’s advice? Check your blood pressure and call back.It all seemed like no big deal to Scheipers, who went to a nearby CVS. “I’m going to do this and go back to my meetings,” she remembers thinking. But when she reported her numbers, the message was clear: Go to a hospital.Next thing she knew, Scheipers was in the ER at New moncler bambino saldi York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She was immediately brought to a room where a doctor delivered shocking news. “She sat me down and said, ‘I think we need to take this baby today. Call your husband and call your parents,’ ” Scheipers says. Her due date was still more than three months away. She had a Caribbean vacation to go on and moncler outlet online shop a nursery to put together.The piumini moncler scontatissimi magnesium drip she was on made her loopy. “But at that point, it was a welcome feeling,” Scheipers says. Another doctor came to the room and Scheipers noticed that she was acting strange “kinda dancing around” until the blood pressure medication kicked in. The physician’s relief was palpable.”I finally understood the severity at that point,” Scheipers says. moncler bambino outlet “She was afraid that I was going to die.”It’s a moncler outlet trebaseleghe real concern in America, where about 700 women die in childbirth each year more than in any other developed country. Add in the women who come close, and it’s a disturbingly high figure: 50,000, according to the Centers for Disease piumini moncler saldi Control and Prevention.In Scheipers’s case, the signs pointed to preeclampsia, a disorder that strikes about 8 percent of pregnancies and is a leading cause of maternal mortality globally. It moncler uomo causes a woman’s blood pressure to rise significantly and then can wreak havoc on her organs. Researchers haven’t figured out the cause, and although there are several known risk factors (such as family history), it often appears in women with none of them.The most effective treatment for preeclampsia is to deliver the baby, which is why the medical team wanted Scheipers to know that if her blood pressure couldn’t be controlled, it probably would not be safe to continue the pregnancy.Although Scheipers certainly had high blood pressure her readings topped out in the 190s over 110, which put her at imminent risk of stroke she didn’t have some typical preeclampsia symptoms, such as high liver enzymes or protein moncler donna in her urine. Because of that, she says, “They were hesitant to diagnose me. Also, it was why they were hesitant to take the baby. Because if it moncler outlet online uomo was something else, that wouldn’t have helped me.”So as the days stretched to weeks, tests searched for rare cancers or other diseases. One nurse urged Scheipers not to Google every morbid possibility.In the meantime, Scheipers waited. She developed a morning ritual of “going to the spa” that meant showering, putting on lotion and a facial mask and getting back into bed for the day. And she tried to remain calm during her never ending blood pressure checks. “It was like the Grim Reaper coming to get me,” Scheipers says.Fortunately for Scheipers, her friend’s mother, Mary D’Alton, is the chair of obstetrics and gynecology at that hospital. And both D’Alton and her husband Richard Berkowitz, another prominent OB/GYN, frequently checked on her. They explained the benefits of extending the pregnancy even just a little.”Your baby is going to be in the NICU. We all know that,” she says they told her. But if she could manage to get to 28 weeks, the risk of several problems would decrease. (Longer would be even better.)So her family regularly trekked from the District to buoy her spirits. Monday morning train. At Christmas, her parents and siblings drove moncler outlet online shop up with a turkey dinner. She and Greg rang in 2015 wearing goofy glasses in her room.After about five weeks, Scheipers outlet moncler knew every nurse, resident and fellow. She also knew to be on guard for changes, and that’s about when she developed an occasional headache. She was also almost pleased to have heartburn. “It’s nice to feel an https://www.moncleroutlet-i.org actual normal pregnancy symptom,” Scheipers says.D’Alton was not as happy about these developments. And there were other indications that Scheipers had reached the limit of what she could handle, physically and emotionally. “One day, I looked at my mom and said, ‘I’m not ready to die yet,’ ” Scheipers says.It was a relief when her daughter Caroline was moncler outlet serravalle delivered via C section on Jan. 17, 2015, at 30 weeks, five days. She was tiny 2 1/2 pounds but mighty, which was comforting after such an ordeal.Baby Caroline was born at 30 weeks, five days. (Courtesy of Cathryn Scheipers)Scheipers’s blood pressure remained high enough moncler saldi outlet to set off alarms, and it took another week until she was discharged. But she still practically moncler saldi lived at the hospital. Only now she had a new routine of skin to skin with Caroline and pumping milk every two hours. It took her four days to get a single drop, she says, because her body thought she’d lost the baby.

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