Julie Fisher, 36, Berkshire
D izziness. Not that unusual when you’re 37 weeks pregnant.
I was at home, waiting for the arrival of my second baby, and about to get my son Jamie, 5, from school.
But I was feeling really offcolour, my vision going blurry. I can’t drive like this, I thought, calling my mum Mary, 56, who came straight over. ‘It’s like vertigo,’ I told Mum. ‘Or flu symptoms.’ ‘Doctor, now!’ she said. I had my blood pressure taken on both arms.
‘They’re different readings,’ he said. ‘And low. Go to hospital.’
Until then, the pregnancy had been perfect. I’d worked until the last minute at a local transport company. My husband David, 36, drove us to the maternity unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in nearby Reading.
‘This…
