Or peripartum cardiomyopathy, was identified in her. It occurs when the heart muscle weakens towards the end of pregnancy or for up to five months after birth.
If identified early enough, peripartum cardiomyopathy may sometimes be treated with medicine to enhance heart function and prevent fluid retention. However, according to the American Heart.
Association, signs of heart failure, such shortness of breath and swelling in the legs and feet, might resemble pregnancy symptoms, making the illness hard to diagnose.
According to Hodson, Hughes soon worsened and was treated in the critical care unit. She went into cardiac arrest and passed away on December 28.
It has been disastrous. Hodson, who lives in Cedar Hills, Utah, which is around 30 miles north of Benjamin, said, “We definitely weren’t expecting this at all.”
Hodson said that Hughes was eager to begin life as a family of four and that the twins’ birth had gone “very well.”
