Preeclampsia

Blood pressure rising. Ankles swelling. Protein suddenly appearing in urine results. Perhaps headaches join in, flickering in front of the eyes, pressure in the upper abdomen, a feeling of irritability or dull heaviness. What just moments ago was a pregnancy — that slow growing, that carrying — transforms into something tense, alarmed. Your body is no longer in harmony with what is happening inside it, but in a state of emergency.