Hi hope you dont mind me adding my bit in here just thought it might help..

I had severe pe with my first, diagnosed at 30.5 weeks and delivered 3 days later at 31 weeks to a 2lb 12 ounce 1260gram little boy who after 6 weeks in hospital and a long journey afterwards is not a healthy happy but small 4.5 year old.

My second pregnancy I developed PIH just mildly at about 26 weeks, by 32 weeks I'd been in hospital a cpl of times and was finally started on meds and given steroid injections as they werent sure they could keep me going... they did and I was sent home. 35 weeks I woke up with a massive migraine, I was in the worst pain ever and was just hysterical with it, I was living with my dad and I literally crawled into his room beside myself with the pain... I was rushed to hospital and my bp was 225/165, it took them about 5 hours to stabilise me, I was pumped full of every drug, I was starting to fit, hyperventalating and just generally in a terrible way.. they got my bed ready to take me around to ICU when all of a sudden sometihng clicked and my bp dropped, they prepped me for surgery and Isobella was born a healthy and hefty 5lb 12 ounces.

Third pregnancy was scary as hell...but keep reading it ends well.... at 19w5d i was admitted to hospital with high bp, swelling etc and diagnosed with PIH... 21 weeks I was admitted AGAIN this time diagnosis changed to PE and they started preparing me for the worst, they started preparing me for the wrost, telling me I was going to deliver ANY day and baby had ZERO chance of survival. I was so so scared.

23 weeks and I don't know how many times I'd been back by then but I was still pregnant so they took me around nicu and showed me the micro premmies, started telling me baby had a slim chance of survival but with major complications and going into more detail about brain bleeds and all kinds of things that are common with micro premmies.

Somehow I kept going on and kept getting sent home on strict bedrest (with 3 other children might I add aged 4 and under to care for..)

28 weeks I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, it was out of control and I was started on insulin... I was also admitted to hosp with high bp for probably the 15thish time so far... strangely as I was started on insulin though my bp dropped... they stopped my meds and it dropped further, to the point it was getting dangerously low.. my blood work started improving, they changed my diagnosis BACK to pih not pe... but kept me in a few days longer any way as they had never seen this happen before. I was sent home on no meds.

A week later I was re-admitted with high bp and started on meds again... now I'll start to cut it a bit shorter as I'm babbling so much...

For the remainder of my pregnancy I had another 6 hospital admissions not to mention I had to be at the hospital 6 out of 7 days a week for fetal monitoring, bp biophysicals, growth/bloodflow scans etc etc etc etc ETC... it was a nightmare... BUT..

38w6d 28th June 2006 I HAD MADE IT... my scheduled csect date had arrived at long last and my healthy first fullterm buddha baby Savannah was born tipping the mummy scales at 7lb5ounces (god she felt SO heavy compared to the others)

so despite the incredible early onset and terrible outcomes my doctors thought would come (EVERY specialist I saw guaranteed delivery before 28 weeks!!!) we made it to the end both of us healthy and happy!

Sorry this is so long, I just really felt I had to share this with you all that are suffering repeat pe because there are good outcomes