[Birth Stories] Preeclampsia During COVID
Birthful
Adriana Lozada
4.7 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
For her third birth, Melonie Fitch was planning a birth center birth, but when the quarantine began, she and her husband decided to have a home birth instead. All that changed when at 39 weeks and five days, her blood pressure unexpectedly skyrocketed, instantly risking her out of a home birth and causing her to be medically induced for preeclampsia.
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