Jay

I remember being pregnant and my doctor telling me early on to take baby aspirin to help prevent preeclampsia. My mom told me not to, and I listened to her over my doctor. Later in my pregnancy, I was showing my followers how swollen my feet were, laughing about it. They immediately started saying, “That looks like preeclampsia!” I said, “No, my doctor said I’m fine.” The next week, I got induced because I did, in fact, have preeclampsia.I ended up staying in the hospital for a week after giving birth. Such a traumatic experience, I thought I was going to die. But I will say, after I got discharged, my mom was the one who took me right back to the hospital because I was sooo swollen. They told me if she hadn’t brought me back, I could’ve had a stroke that night. My blood pressure was almost 200 and the only symptom I had was that I was swollen.