Women's Experiences of Preeclampsia: Australian Action on Preeclampsia Survey of Women and Their Confidants

Table 3

The PE experience from the perspective of the women’s partners, family member, or close friends.

	n	%
Felt scared of losing the partner/relative/friend	49	76.6%
Felt scared that the partner/relative/friend may lose the baby	45	70.3%
Felt the need to advocate for the partner/relative/friend and baby	39	60.9%
Thought that most women have babies at 40 weeks with many problems	44	68.8%
Never expected the pregnancy to end like this	46	100.0%
Had never heard of preeclampsia before this	48	75.0%
Had heard a little about problems in pregnancy	51	79.7%
Never felt that pregnancy problems would happen to someone they knew	41	64.1%
Could see this coming because noticed the partner/relative/friend was unwell leading up to this	16	25.0%
Did not know what to do to help	46	71.9%
Felt was able to support partner/relative/friend as planned	40	58.8%