SAFE DELIVERY A pregnancy emergency, and then a healthy mom and baby Taylor-Marie Leman’s pregnancy journey went without any major problems through the first 28 weeks. Then one morning in her third trimester, she woke up with a bad headache. “It wasn’t going away with medication,” she says. “And then I started seeing spots in my left eye.” When she messaged her obstetrician at Riverside Women’s Health, the nurse asked her to come into Riverside’s Family Birthing Center for monitoring and evaluation. That’s when Leman learned she had preeclampsia, a serious high blood pressure condition during pregnancy that can cause complications for moms and their babies. “I had always had this impression that you had to have swelling and a bunch of other symptoms for preeclampsia to be a concern,” she says. “But I found out that it could just be a severe headache.” An emergency delivery to keep mom and baby safe Leman’s blood pressure had climbed dangerously high, putting her and her baby’s health at risk. But a nurse at the Family Birthing Center calmly explained the plan ahead, which included medications to lower her 4 RiversideHealthcare.org
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