HELLP Syndrome Archives - Crazy With Twins

I’m currently 16 weeks pregnant, but this is the post I wrote when I was 10 weeks pregnant. I am no longer with (or in contact with) SD, but I wanted to share the whole of my pregnancy journey, so I have left it as written at the time and you can follow my story… I’m […]

For readers who missed the announcement, I’m currently 14 weeks pregnant, but I wrote blog posts throughout my pregnancy – these are being published now – to share my story. This is the post I wrote when I was 5 weeks pregnant… The news hasn’t really sunk in yet. Neither myself nor SD know quite what to […]

This post has been a long time coming. It has taken a long time for me to accept, and I’m still not sure if I have accepted it. I am blessed, with three incredible daughters, that I wouldn’t change for the world. But every mum, has that secret number. The secret number of how many […]

Jonny and I, got married in June 2011. In that time, I have thoroughly tested his staying power with the “In sickness and in health” wedding vow. First up, was a very complicated twin pregnancy, Hyperemesis Gravidarum and Symphis Pubis Dysfunction. But I couldn’t leave it there could I? No, I developed Pre-Eclampsia and then alongside haemorrhaging several times, I nearly […]

I am a chatterbox. I talk far too much. All the time. I am very rarely rendered speechless. However, on Saturday night, something strange happened… …I won the award for Best Baby Blog 2013 at the Mad Blog Awards in London’s fabulous Royal Garden Hotel. I was… rendered speechless. When my category winner was announced as […]

A year ago today, I was in hospital being induced with the twins. By the time of writing this, I had had my waters broken with a knitting needle, I was hooked up to an Oxytocin drip and according to the belly monitors, I was having contractions… but I couldn’t feel a thing. I had […]

You all know that I had a very traumatic birth with the twins, and developed HELLP Syndrome which caused my organs to start failing and my needing to be in hospital for ten days after the birth. I told Bunny on that morning, before I went in to be induced, that I’d try my best […]

2012 was both an exciting, but tremendously difficult year for us. (please note: all coloured writing in this post will take you to a blog post explaining what I am talking about, if you click on it.) We were launched into the year being unwittingly dropped onto the poverty line, as I explained in my […]

Yes I’m going there. I didn’t want to get all topical current affairs and talk about this… but then it dawned on me – it was this time last year I was just coming out of the hell that is Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG). So instead of talking about Kate Middleton / Duchess of Cambridge (or […]

Around about the time I first started blogging (30 weeks pregnant with twins), I developed Pre-Eclampsia, which then developed into HELLP Syndrome. The first symptom I developed (which several doctors dismissed), was swelling in my hands and feet. I woke up one morning to my wedding finger hurting and looking a strange shade of purple. I […]