This is very important! Increase your protein, up to 100 grams per day. Follow the Brewer Diet http://www.blueribbonbaby.org/ Soak your feet in cool water and epsom salts. Increase your calcium/magnesium, take a supplement 1000 mg calcium, 500 mgs magnesium. Eat one yellow, ripe cucumber per day. Eat lots of fresh, raw greens; spinach, dandelion is especially useful, and grate one raw beet into it. Take 20 minutes each day, sit in a cool, dark room, with your feet up, and tell yourself, "My blood pressure is okay, my blood pressure is normal" and visualize it decreasing.
i had really bad swelling too. it was everywhere, my stomach, my arms, my face, my legs, hands, feet, and i asked my midwife what i could do about it, cus it was so bad, and she told me that basically just elevate my feet, drink alot of water, and thats it. she told me theres not much you can do, her words were " the best way to get rid of the swelling is to have a baby". It still took me a week after skyler to loose it, 15 pounds of swelling. i know how miserable you feel. but the hospital told me that peeing is how you loose it. drink alot of water, it helps adema.
Hey mynameiskc, have you let your doctor know about the increased swelling? I had mild Toxemia with my oldest son and severe Toxemia and H.E.L.L.P. syndrome with my twins. I kept insisting that I was swelling but the doctors didn't seem to think it was all that bad and chalked it up to normal pregnancy swelling. I knew it was more though. I felt like my skin was being stretched tight like a rubber band and anytime I would lightly press on my skin, I could see major white spots. It got so bad that I could barely walk! How has your pressure been lately? Do you take it at home, or do they just do it at the doctor's office?
Ugh I remember that. I lost 20 pounds of swelling in like 2 weeks after my son was born. YOu should go get yourself a massage
i had pre-eclampsia with kai. my blood pressure is not good. i'm on my side most of the time, and i'm checking it frequently at home. i was really frustrated in the beginning, because my blood pressure was ALWAYS high, but when i'd get to the doctor's office, it was normal. so i started having it checked by a nurse in my daughter's pediatrician's office and kept a record. it was the same that i was always getting at home, which i'd been recording, too. i've got a lot of experience checking my blood pressure. so anyway, not that the numbers are obscene at home, they're "alarming" at the doctor's office. he wanted to put of medicating me until the 9th of this month. i'm not stretched too badly yet, i don't have dents that linger on my ankles when i press into them yet, but they're getting there.
i can't drive right now, can't really move about much at all, but my doc did say i could get a massage if i didn't have to go far or anything.
thanks. i think i'll be okay. it's still not as bad as i was with kai. self-pity aside, i've a lot to be graateful for.
