Hi, guys. Welcome back to Preview Alliance podcast. And so this month, guys, is the month of May,

and we know it's maternal mental health month, but it also is preeclampsia awareness. You may be going,

what is preeclampsia? That is high blood pressure, all the kind of things that we do want to avoid.

So I have brought our MFM expert, Dr. Heaven Trista, on again, you guys are going to meet him

over and over throughout this series that we're kind of going to be talking about what is complications of pregnancy from an OBMFM standpoint.

So Kevin, welcome and thank you for being with us.

Thanks for having me back.

I'm excited that you asked me to do the pre-clamped episode.

It is something that you see time and time again in pregnancy.

So it's something that affects a lot of women.

So excited to talk about it today.

So let's dive right into it.

So what is preeclampsia?

For someone who's never heard of it, break it down for us, tell us also kind of when we

would expect it to show up, pregnancy and postpartum, and give us kind of some of that fun medical

knowledge you've went for so long about what's actually going on in our body.

Yeah, so how I describe preclampsia kind of at its bare bone things is it is a disease of

pregnancy that can cause high blood pressure and possibly some other effects like organ

damage and other

effects to baby. It can be dangerous and can have some effects that need to be monitored and

watched, especially if it's not detected. That's when we kind of see these things take off,

but very manageable when caught early. Usually we think of preclampsia showing up after 20 weeks of pregnancy and a very small

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