Diary of a Complicated Pregnancy

By Carol Cameleon

An emotional and inspiring journey through a complicated pregnancy involving placenta praevia, pre-eclampsia and 'HEELP' syndrome. This book was written to raise awareness of some of the conditions that can arise during pregnancy. 50% of sales go to charity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carol Cameleon
• Release date: Feb 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9780957375734

Carol Cameleon

'Wow, you should turn that into a book to help other people', were the words of a good friend. So I did. It's been a festering dream and personal ambition of mine to have my word in print. With that in mind, this page is a celebration of my works. I've got my next project underway and intend to put what I've learnt from my first book into practice :) I hope you enjoy reading my books. I know that I enjoyed writing them...

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Diary of a Complicated Pregnancy

Second Edition

Copyright © 2012 Virtually All Sorts

All rights reserved.

ISBN 978-0-9573757-3-4

Book design, cover design and cover image

© Virtually All Sorts

Cover image edited by Fairytale Photography

For Stu and Emma

Acknowledgements

For always believing in me and giving me 100% support in this project and then some – Stu

For making me laugh, no matter what and making me realise day after day, minute after minute that every single second of life is precious – Emma

For giving Stu the support he needed while all this was going on – Mum and Dad

For being my big sis and being there with Mum and Dad when we announced the pregnancy – Rachel Waterhouse

For giving me the push (no pun intended) I needed to do something about this eBook – Gary De-Vanche

From the Cameleon ;)

For understanding my love of literature – Jo ‘Flo’ Hipkiss

From Trolley ;) I did it!

For your friend’s story – Kate Bement

From Carol Jackson ;)

For a fairytale cover – Maddy Wheal of Fairytale Photography

Foreword

My plea for ‘HELLP’

So there I was, waiting for my bath to run and I thought I’d have a nose through facebook. I noticed a good friend’s link to ‘Get Naked’ and naturally, I clicked!

Hey presto, I was taken to a short video about a woman’s inspirational experience of a molar pregnancy. Never one to like missing out on reading an inspirational story, and never having heard of it before, I was touched.

The whole point of this incredibly brave woman having had this video made was to raise awareness of the condition and raise money.

I had a flash back to when I was pregnant and suffered acute pre-eclampsia followed by ‘HELLP’ syndrome. While I was on maternity leave I had intended to raise money and awareness of ‘HELLP’ but life took over and it never happened.

Having read that inspirational story and mulled it over in that nice hot bath, here is my plea for ‘HELLP’ to raise awareness through my book.

Let’s start from the very beginning…

Chapter 1

The test…

I came off the pill after years of being on it. The pill I was on meant the hormone levels never dropped and therefore I never had