u/Human_Reward_3903

As the title says, I’m currently in the hospital and I’m currently 25 weeks and 6 days pregnant. I was admitted last Wednesday at 5 am due to having a horrible migraine and elevated blood pressure. I honestly just thought it was a migraine since I’ve had them my whole life and it felt like a normal one. The only difference was that Tylenol did nothing to help it. By the time I got to the hospital, my blood pressure was 172/104. They quickly got me into a room to run tests and I was annoyed because I just wanted the migraine to go away and to go home. I was quickly informed that they suspected preeclampsia which shocked me because I had been fine up until that moment. My urine protein was 605 and they told me that they were starting a 24 hour magnesium drip. All I could think of was “Fine, I’ll just be here for 24 hours and then I can go home”. I was wrong. They started throwing around how they will want to deliver me at 34 weeks and I was most likely looking at staying at the hospital until then. They had me hooked up to a blood pressure cuff that went off every 15 minutes during those 24 hours. They also had a cath in to collect a 24 hour urine sample to retest the protein and little man kept jumping on my bladder which made the cath shake and feel very uncomfortable. They didn’t even let me eat until almost midnight Wednesday and at that point, I was starving. They moved me to a new room the next day and that’s where I’ve been since. They did give me the two steroid shots for his lungs just in case he came early. When I got admitted, I was exactly 25 weeks and they kept saying how they just wanted to keep him in longer. The 24 test came back at 805 which solidified that I wasn’t going home soon. My blood pressure would spike in the mornings and evenings so they now have me on 400 mg of Labetalol twice a day and 30 mg of Nifedipine which has done wonders. They had to give me multiple doses of Hydralazine through my IV to bring my blood pressure down which they haven’t had to do since early yesterday morning. The doctors said that if they have to give me another dose of that, they will immediately take him out. I’m terrified. The hospital I’m at has a level 3 nicu and I know they will do everything they can, but my mom keeps trying to tell me that she doesn’t think he will make it due to how early he is and how he is already measuring small. I want to have faith that he will stay in for longer and that he will be fine, but I don’t know what to do which is not helping with my blood pressure. Can anyone who had a baby at 25+ weeks tell me their experience? I need some reassurance and just to hear from other people. I know he will have a long haul in the NICU, but I want to be as prepared as possible.