I had an appointment at the hospital with a physician today. She looked at the results from Saturday and said i have anaemia, and low protein in my blood (but normal in urine), and my blood pressure was up slightly. She thinks the low protein is causing the swelling.

She wants me to increase my protein intake. i haven;t had red meat for close to 20 years, and have only started eating chicken during the pregnancy after 15+ years of not eating white meat either. i can't really think of any red meat that i would be able to swallow, so am going to have a look at other ways of increasing my protein.

does anaemia or low blood protein lead to any difficulties with bleeding during labour? any other issues?