If I’ve been asked once, I’ve been asked a dozen times.<\/p>\n
“What did you do differently this time around?” <\/p>\n
What they’re really asking is, “Why didn’t you get preeclampsia this time?” <\/p>\n
The answer to the question as asked is that I didn’t do anything I “should” have. I ate what sounded good (precious little) instead of eating careful balanced meals like I did with the other two. I barely exercised instead of exercising diligently like I did with the other two. I didn’t plan for or expect a normal birth. If preeclampsia were a matter of human control, I would have been more likely to have gotten it with Beth-Ellen than with the other two. <\/p>\n
(Incidentally, the one preventative action with any good evidence behind it is taking a baby aspirin during pregnancy – and I did that with both Louis and Beth-Ellen, with vastly different outcomes.)<\/p>\n
The answer to the real question is simple. <\/p>\n
God willed it. <\/p>\n
It was God’s grace that gave me preeclampsia with Tirzah Mae and Louis – and God’s grace that gave me a normal pregnancy with Beth-Ellen. <\/p>\n
What did I do? <\/p>\n
Nothing. <\/p>\n
God did everything, in His inscrutable wisdom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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