High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy: Effects on Mother & Baby | Preeclampsia

"Preeclampsia if it happens at the time of maturity, say when the pregnancy is termed beyond 34 weeks, then we deliver the mother and the baby and that should be a happy ending interms of the mother being well and the being well. Preeclampsia, I hope you understand when the mother develops high blood pressure in pregnancy and it typically happens in 20 weeks of pregnancy. So if this happens very early in pregnancy then we can extend the pregnancy to the extend we want because we want the baby to be matured when it is delivered ad we want the baby to survive on its own when it is delivered, we want to avoid the immaturities we can. There are conditions we have where the condition of the mother gets serious and we don’t want to continue the pregnancy, because counting pregnancy meaning risking the others left and at that time we are forced to deliver because ultimately the treatment of Preeclampsia is to remove the placenta, which is the trigger for the blood pressure. So to remove the placentas, we have to reeve the baby, no matter what stage the pregnancy is , if the mother’s life is at risks of the outcome of the pregnancy, the risk to the mother depends on the stage of pregnancy that she is if she is quite close to delivery, we will deliver her and not take any major risk with the mother’s life. But if she is so far from the delivery, then it means every day inside the uterus means 2 days outside the NICU, then we will try to push the pregnancy forward. So there will be a risk to the mother’s life, that we will be taking to a certain extend and similarly the baby who comes out early will go through a lot of struggle in the NICU and if it happens even before the baby is viable. The baby will not survive. So these are the risk of Preeclampsia on the other and the baby. This is one of the major worries of any mother during the pregnancy. High blood pressure in the mother also doesn’t allow the baby to grow well. So these babies are growth restricted, growth retreaded and they may run into trouble as well even though the mother is stable requiring delivery of the baby for its well being. So Preeclampsia is a delicate scenario that needs to be monitored and described on again individual basis"