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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of the things the women in the article discuss are familiar to me.  I had severe preeclampsia and gave birth at 29w. I also had 8 significant fibroids, which combined with low-platelets and an emergent c/s led to an emergency hysterectomy.  There should have been much better communication between the various providers I was seeing-I assumed that they were sharing notes, but in retrospect I don't think that was necessarily true.

And while I totally support less medicalized births for lower-risk women, I think the natural birth community endangers the lives of women with preeclampsia every day.  As one of the women in the article said, [b]natural birth people say that preeclampsia happens to women who don't eat well and don't take care of themselves, and I've seen in books and online dangerous advice to try and fix preeclampsia with dietary and herb routines[/b].[/quote]
I also had severe preeclampsia and was well taken care of at a local hospital.  The dietary approach to preeclampsia and GD (if you eat enough protein and veggies and calories and drink enough water, then you won't get either of these) is dangerous and wrong.  It's also insulting, because it means that you did something wrong if you get preeclampsia or GD or other complications.

Most of my friends and family had less complicated, less medicalized births.  I didn't.  Thankfully, we each have healthy children, whatever route of delivery.  [/quote]
Thanks for posting this. I had a friend with a twin delivery that became full-blown HELLP. She had a super healthy pregnancy (was doing pilates through her third trimester etc), and she thinks that they were a little laissez-faire about following up her bloodwork because of that. She didn't have pre-E diagnosed earlier, but apparently the last BW taken a couple days before she went into labor would have shown some issues if they had bothered looking and noting that she had a twin pregnancy.

She almost died, and there is no reason for her to have gone through that.[/quote]
Twin gestations are at a higher risk for PE. I'm sorry, but if her doctor stopped paying attention to her test results, how is that the fault of the "natural birth movement"? That's just a medical practitioner who got lazy.[/quote]
She attributes it partially to the fact that she was so healthy throughout pregnancy they weren't on top of things toward the end. I'm not her or her doctor, so I can't tell you more than that. But it's her opinion of her experience.[/quote]

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