Pre-Eclampsia Awareness Week
While the road to motherhood wasn't completely without bumps, I am blessed to have given birth to two beautiful healthy daughters. Unfortunately that is not the case for everyone. You may be aware, that Pre-Eclampsia is an illness arising only in pregnancy that can affect both the mother and her unborn child. It affects as many as one in ten of all pregnancies making it the most common serious antenatal complication. It can develop at any time in the second half of pregnancy. In the mother, the condition causes a number of symptomless disturbances including raised blood pressure and protein in the urine. The only cure is the delivery of the baby and complications due to infant prematurity often result.
19-25 August 2007 is Pre-Eclampsia Awareness Week and I urge you all to visit AAPEC to learn more.
4 comments:
Dear Sarah,
As you know my passion to grow awareness about pre eclampsia is one that has touched my life personally. I really am one of the lucky ones though. To have my daughter Airlie at 27weeks was not ideal but it was just simply too dangerous for either of us to continue on. I am the luckiest woman in the world because I have my baby girl and she is the most precious beautiful thing ever, you just ask her and she agrees already!
When I stand before those who do not have their babies and I think to the future for others and Airlie I know that just simply making more women and men aware of it can really save someones life. Many of us that suffer from PE never knew about the condition until it almost took our lives and our babies.
I just wanted to say a personal thank you for adding this to your blog. You are responsible for helping us save more lives and you should be proud you took the time to do so.
Thank you so much
Fiona & Airlie
Dear Sarah, thank you for posting about the pre-eclampsia and how wonderful you have an awareness week in Australia!
lucky I didn't suffer from this but I have had friends and family.....can you reply to my comment........
I think the most wonderful thing about blogland is support. I wish that I had known about blogland when I was pregnant and a new Mum...might have saved a lot of heartache. Thankyou SO MUCH for making people aware.
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