It was just a 30, well, almost 30 weeks a routine antenatal scan and check-up at [local hospital] hospital and the consultant was sort of quite concerned with the scan that my daughter was still very small for dates, and my blood pressure was quite high and also I’sd protein plus two in my urine test. Things obviously, lots of weight, was carrying a lot of fluid, and he advised that I went to [another hospital] to have nine weeks’s bed rest. So I was obviously referred on a Thursday tea-time, put on the monitors, just general check-ups, and then it got to the Sunday afternoon where I just had a really bad headache, obviously still had the monitors, blood pressure checks every four hours and so one of the nurses had to get someone else to check my blood pressure, and it was obviously dangerously high, that they just took me down to the delivery suite, put me on a drip to hopefully get the blood pressure down, which it did stabilise by itself, but they said, you know, due to the risk with the pre-eclampsia that had set in, the only way, you know, to sort of, you know, stop the pre-eclampsia of getting any worse was to just do a caesarean for the next day, which they did.

It’s like over a decade ago, and I suppose technology and treatment is so much more advanced now, as to what it was then, that, you know, there was obviously having routine urine tests but obviously there was the protein that had showed up, and then it had obviously progressed to protein plus two, and the blood pressure didn’st go mad until I was already admitted to [Hospital].

But I suppose sort of, being like nineteen, they could have told me things til they were blue in the face and I still wouldn’st it’s gobbledegook language to me, whereas now, being this much older, you can sort of understand it a lot more because you know, you’sve sort of been there and sort of put more, more documentaries and advice. It’s just a lot more advice these days, a lot more information given. Because I sort of, remember saying to my mum what happened, what were they saying.