While Sullivan's incisions were closed, her husband, Michael, took the baby to the nursery to be weighed. They were already in the recovery room when Sullivan arrived there. When the Mom Is in Danger Lori Dammeyer, of Silverdale, WA, sailed through her first and second trimester without complaint. I swelled like a balloon. I began getting migraines.
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Her ob insisted on checking her into the hospital immediately to control her blood pressure with an intravenous infusion of magnesium sulfate. So her doctor recommended an emergency c-section. At 29 weeks the baby's chances of survival outside the womb were excellent, but the risk of losing both would be far greater if the mother went into convulsions, as Dammeyer could have at any moment. Still concerned about seizures, the surgeons ordered general anesthesia. After her daughter Kelsey Renee's birth, Dammeyer woke up dazed, a day later, in intensive care.