UPDATE- Last night, my husband came home from work and asked how my evening blood pressure reading was. I told him about the same, and he said the magic words: "But you are still scared, aren't you?" We talked for an hour or so, and I felt MUCH better. Today, I went to the MFM to check baby's measur...

After baby #2, I was having continued visual disturbance, and my doctor wanted me to get a cardiology consult. Turned out I had a mitral valve regurgitation that I had never had before. They attributed it to my high bp, and followed me for two years until it repaired itself.

He has been with me to the MFM once, and at that point I think the MFM was trying to help me be less scared, so he said "Oh, we will just give you a little medicine and you will be fine" So that is what my husband has heard and I think he is clinging to it. I have appointments with my OB and my MFM ...

I had a pregnancy in 1999 that ended in an emergency c-section due to HELLP. I have since divorced and remarried, and my current husband and I had a beautiful little girl in 2007 with very mild pre-e symptoms that didn't even start until 39 weeks, and my doctor decided to deliver immediately. I am c...