He said, “She has loved babies forever and has always wanted to be a mother.” Even as a little child, she was referred to be the baby whisperer.
It’s unclear what causes peripartum cardiomyopathy. Pregnancies with twins or other multiples, mother age of 35 or older, and high blood pressure, particularly pre-eclampsia,
A dangerous pregnancy condition marked by raised blood pressure, are among the risk factors that experts believe seem to exist. Hughes was generally healthy, according to Hodson,
But she was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia late in her pregnancy. Dr. Patrick S. Ramsey, head of maternal-fetal medicine at UT Health San Antonio in Texas,
Estimates that peripartum cardiomyopathy affects around 1 in 2,000 live deliveries and is more common in Black women.
