High blood pressure during second pregnancy

[rumki8]

I am in second pregnancy. I had high blood pressure about a week ago - it was 160/120. The doctor gave me some medicine and I am now on BP medicine and it has definitely helped me. Now my blood pressure is stable at 130/90. I had high blood pressure in my first pregnancy. Is there anyone who has been through something like this type of problem and how he overcame it?

[Nichole]

Hello and welcome to YogaForums. It is sweet to hear from mothers and mothers-to-be on the forum.
Have you had high blood pressure outside of your pregnancies?
Were you able to impact your BP rates with other courses: diet, appropriate exercise, relaxation techniques?

Searching for Blood Pressure here will produce many threads on the subject. I recommend the advice and recommendations given by Mukunda and you can find his posts deeper in the forum.

Kind wishes for you and your family,

[justwannabe]

please realize that the medication you take, your child is taking as well. Maybe look for some natural herbs or something natural. Best of luck in your search
seeker

[Nichole]

Originally Posted by tubeseeker

please realize that the medication you take, your child is taking as well. Maybe look for some natural herbs or something natural. Best of luck in your search
seeker

This sounds like judgment to me. It is also assumptive. It implies that the fetus is impacted by this medication, or any medication, proportional to the impact on mother's system. This is simple not true. It also implies that herbs or something "natural" is automatically safer for mother and fetus and this again is not necessarily true.
I strongly ask that we reconsider our own assumptions that pharmaceuticals are unYogic and not best course for many conditions (especially gestational HBP). This rigid thinking as its own brand of troubles. Also, this poster is under the care of her medical doctor and she has not responded to the request for more information as to if there are other course she has tried. Let's take a deep breath and give her a chance to fill in the blanks for us. And please, let's leave out any future fear-provoking opinions on what she is currently doing to care for herself and her unborn child.

[justwannabe]

Nichole
I was not trying to imply if the mother was right or wrong, in my mind that would have been judging her, I am just asking her to be aware that what she puts into her body will be in the childs as well. I did not say the child will have a negative effect for sure.

As of right now the mother and child are one in the physical manner. I work with autistic students, I have 8 in my class, in the hallway I work in there are 60 children that are not "normal", austism, downes syndrome, TMH, EMH, etc... Those are their labels. In our socioty many pregnant women put things into their bodies while pregnant, some smoke, drink, do drugs, etc.... I would imagine that those foreign substances cause many birth defects.
The medication "foreign substance" from our "doctors" many times has adverse effects "side effect" the food we eat is not the most healthy with many added chemicals "foreign substances"
I would be naive to think that those foreign substances found in our food and medication would not be the cause of at least one of those sixty kids in my hallway having challenges for the rest of their lives.

herbs? since herbs have been around and issued for thousands of years I would tend to believe they are safer then medicine from the last 300 years or so. from my limited perspective science is still trying to catch up to yoga and auyervedia it seems, but these are just my opinions and I could always be wrong. Why would I assume somthing natural would be safer, well because it is natural. beef from a cow may not be good, but I would prefer natural beef as opposed to beef injected with chemicals.

Maybe the divine wanted her to post in her just to get a response similar to mine, maybe not. Maybe my initial response was not good enough so the divine had you post to make me explain myself further, maybe not. My opinion those last two statements are only possibilities, my judgment, I am not fit to judge

so to rumki, if I came across harsh that was not my intention. I posted what I did because of my exposure to many children with life long challenges.

If I could make a suggestion, either try to find a good yoga teacher who does prenatal and seems to have and understanding of what you ask, or aif you posted as much information as possible about your current lifestyle, maybe one fo the more experienced people on here could assist you in some way. if you do that please list your diet, exercise, sleep patterns, etc.....
I wish you the best to you and your little one
with love
seeker

[InnerAthlete]

I didn't particularly draw a sense of judgment from TS's reply so I'm going to deviate slightly from that theme.

It is prudent for us, those practicing an awareness practice, to be mindful of that which we put into our bodies. That mindfulness, I hope, is heightened when what goes in is supplying two rather than one.

However, there absolutely are circumstances where the student should be taking medications (prescription meds in relationship with their health care provider). The circumstances for that are not important for this reply.

In addition we cannot, until we have more information, make assumptions about the OP's environment. It is possible may other things have been tried. It is also possible that this situation was very dangerous for the fetus and therefore intervention was needed immediately.

My personal stance with allopathically-oriented meds is "last resort". But not everyone takes such a position and I, as a teacher, have to understand and accept that there is no "one way".