The doctors were astonished she’d made it to the hospital alive. Largely because modern medicine is amazing, she and her new baby survived. Afterward, she told reporters (who’d somehow gotten wind of the “miracle delivery” on the operating table), “I was just happy that I was alive and our daughter was alive….I think that the baby saved my life.” Of course, it was the baby who nearly killed her. But that’s no way to start a relationship with your child. Preeclampsia—a disorder that plagues more than one in twenty pregnancies in the United States, which is what this woman had—is characterized
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