I recently was pregnant and had BP problems.

My BP ranged in the last 5 weeks from 140/90 to 160/110, it did not go below 140/90. I had trace to 1+ of protein everytime, but in the last week I was showing 5+, but still the blood tests i had showed no organ damage was happening which is why we kept going.

I was put on monitoring and was supposed to go to daystay every day for 4 hours as really, they cant have an accurate figure from just a once of BP reading, it needs to be done over a period of time every half hour or so as many ladies have their BP go up when visiting a dr. Anyway, due to the hospital being an hour and a half away, I could not go to day stay daily, so I went three times a week. I was hospitialized as well a few times.

At 38-39 weeks they tried to put me on BP medication but I had a reaction to it and then refused to try more. I said if my BP was that bad that I needed medicating when I was heavily pregnant, they could induce me. They also saw that the EDD I chose was the latest one (I was scan dated and chose the latest EDD I was given for the hospital records.) When they looked through my scans, they saw that the more accrate date was sooner.

Anyway they made adate for induction which was 5 days after my edd, and told me a week from that date. It gave me a week to go into natural labour. My edd came around and that night went into labour.

So even tho bp was high and they knew my baby was big, they still were very reluctant to induce before edd because there was no organ damage yet (I had liver and kidney problems with my first pregnancy as I had PE and HELLP and I had to be induced at 36+5). The reason they gave was that more times than not it leads to c-section or a multitude of intervention. This was a major city hospital well known for their maternity services and people travel a long way to use it, it's one of the best around and they are a low intervention hospital I think. It was frustrating to have to be monitored constantly but I was glad I went into natural labour as the risk of intervention is much lower, you don't have to be monitored, usually less painful, etc etc.

So it totally depends on your hospital or your OB which decision they make and how induction happy they are.

I hope it all works out and your bp doesnt go higher and your protein stays down. Best of luck hun.