WWE star Alexa Bliss revealed on the What’s Your Story? Podcast that she suffered from undetected preeclampsia following the birth of her daughter, Hendrix, leading to a frightening health scare three days postpartum.
Bliss explained that her mother, who holds a doctorate in nursing, raised concerns about a rising blood pressure reading during the pregnancy. Because Bliss naturally has low blood pressure, the elevated numbers still hovered within a typical range for a normal human being, causing medical staff to dismiss the shift as pain-related.
“Yeah, so I had preeclampsia, and they didn’t catch it. I naturally have low blood pressure. And so when I was going to the doctor, my mom, she has a doctorate in nursing, so she’s very on top of everything,” Bliss said on the What’s Your Story? Podcast.
“She’s like, ‘Have them check your blood pressure again, this is high for you’ but I was still a normal range for a normal human being. It shot up by 30, and they were like, ‘Oh, it’s probably just because you’re in pain and whatever.’,” Bliss said.
Following the birth, Hendrix required hospital treatment for jaundice, bringing Bliss back to the same medical complex. Three days later, severe swelling set in, accompanied by a terrifying sensation of drowning whenever she lay flat.
“I kept telling everyone, ‘I feel like I’m drowning, when I lay down, I feel like I’m drowning.’ I started getting real big and everything,” Bliss said.
She contacted her neighbor April, who worked at the hospital, and sent photographs of her swollen ankles and face. April advised her to get immediate blood work done.
Upon crossing the connecting bridge to the women’s and baby’s hospital for testing, staff immediately ordered her admission, warning that she faced potential heart or kidney failure.
“So I waddle myself over there because it’s just a connecting bridge. Get my blood work, and immediately they were like, ‘Okay, we need to admit you, not to freak you out, but you could be in heart failure, could be in kidney failure’,” Bliss said.
“They were like, ‘We’re gonna keep you because.’ And this is what they said to me, they were like, ‘Well, we’re so happy you’re here because a lot of times the mommies who come in with us, the daddies and babies, leave without a mommy if they don’t stay.’ And I was like, ‘Excuse me?’ I was like, I’m gonna stay, you don’t need to scare me into staying,” Bliss said.
Bliss also discussed balancing her recovery and early motherhood with her ongoing career in the WWE, including bringing Hendrix on the road.
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