Sharing Shannon’s Story with Preeclampsia This Story Saturday – Preeclampsia Foundation
Preeclampsia Foundation shared on LinkedIn:
”For today’s Story Saturday, we are sharing Shannon’s story with preeclampsia.
Shannon writes,
‘I knew the symptoms from my first pregnancy with my singleton. So on November 29th 2025, at 10:05 pm, I was not surprised when the blood pressure machine said 178/114. I was only 32 weeks pregnant with twin baby girls. I drove myself to the ER during a snowstorm, hopeful I would be able to go home in a couple of hours.
That was definitely not the case. I was transferred to a hospital with a level 3 NICU and was admitted to the high-risk maternity ward. I spent the next 9 days there, leaving my husband and daughter at home, which was an hour away. We scheduled my C-section for the day I hit 34 weeks.
The day came; surgery went without complications, but there I was staring at a stark white ceiling listening to myself being stitched up while my tiny 4.2- and 4.7-pound babies were rolled away in plastic boxes to the NICU. I returned to the high-risk maternity ward where I spent the next 24 hours hooked up to a magnesium drip while my babies were one floor away waiting to meet their mom.
We’re lucky both babies were healthy (baby A had a fetal growth restriction, but she was okay, just a little smaller); they just needed time to grow and learn how to take a bottle. I didn’t get to give them their first bottle, their first bath, or even be the first person to hold them. I spent the next thirty days driving an hour each way to the NICU and back home. Leaving my three-year-old to be watched by everyone but me.
Preeclampsia stole 2 pregnancy experiences and a postpartum with babies at home from me. I can never get those moments back, and I grieve them every day. I think I’ll be sad about the moments I didn’t get to have for the rest of my life.’
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