Becoming Pregnant
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
I am an 25 year old mother who has an 4 year old daughter and my second daughter had die a year ago from SIDS
I was wondering can I get pregnant quickly since it's been an a year since my second daughter was born.
I already have taken my pap smear test and everything came back normal but I do have hypertension from my 1st pregnancy.
ANSWER
If you are on medication for your hypertension, you should not stop it. You have waited more than long enough to conceive again--Good luck!
-- Cynthia, CNM. PhD.
Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
