Trista and Ryan Sutter, who found love on ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” open up about her health problems during her pregnancy in the new issue of Us Weekly. While the reality TV couple proudly introduce their now 7-week-old son Maxwell Alston in the new issue of the magazine, they also recall how in her seventh month of pregnancy, Trista was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, which was being controlled. However, on July 24, while just beginning her ninth month, Trista was “terribly nauseous and in a lot of pain,” which did not subside throughout the day, causing the couple to go to the hospital. Having found protein in her urine, a symptom of preeclampsia, her OB tested Trista, finding elevated blood pressure as well as other symptoms, and diagnosed her with HELLP syndrome. This occurs in about 10 percent of women with preeclampsia or eclampsia, and includes early breakdown of red blood cells, low platelet count and elevated liver enzymes. read more

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NEW YORK - Obese pregnant women may have an increased risk of losing their baby relatively late in pregnancy, and black women appear particularly at risk, a large study suggests. Researchers found that obese women were 40 percent more likely than normal-weight and overweight women to have their pregnancy end in stillbirth â” defined as fetal death in the 20th week of pregnancy or later. Women who were classified as extremely obese had nearly double the risk of stillbirth as women who were normal-weight or overweight before becoming pregnant. News | Politics | World News | Business | Sports | Tech/Science | Entertainment | Travel | Health | Blogs Etc. read more

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