(BPT) - First pregnancies come with a lot of unknowns, but for Kim Strout, everything had been going smoothly. However, that changed when she reached her 35th week of pregnancy.
"My first pregnancy was really pretty easy all along. I felt great," Strout said. "It wasn't really until late in my third trimester that I started to have severe migraines, vision disorientation and flashes of light. I knew something wasn't right."
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