Your body deserves to be heard
Serious pregnancy-related complications can appear during pregnancy and throughout the year after pregnancy ends, including after delivery or pregnancy loss. This page helps you recognize categories of concern—it cannot determine what a symptom means.
Seek care immediately
This summary is intentionally conservative and is not a complete symptom checker.
A severe or worsening headache; sudden thunderclap pain; ongoing dizziness or lightheadedness; seizure; fainting; vision changes; sudden face droop; one-sided weakness or numbness; or sudden trouble speaking, understanding, walking, or balancing.
Trouble breathing, chest pressure or pain, a racing or irregular heartbeat, or difficulty breathing while lying flat.
Bleeding that soaks a pad in an hour, clots larger than an egg or passing tissue, foul-smelling discharge, a temperature of 100.4°F or higher, or severe belly, shoulder, or back pain that does not go away.
Severe nausea or vomiting, being unable to drink for more than 8 hours or eat for more than 24 hours, extreme swelling of the face or hands, one-sided arm or leg pain or swelling with redness or warmth, or sudden overwhelming weakness unlike ordinary fatigue.
Your baby’s movement stops or slows, vaginal bleeding is more than spotting, or fluid leaks from the vagina. Seek medical care immediately.
Possible postpartum psychosis: Hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, severe confusion, mania with loss of reality, or being unable to tell what is real are a medical emergency. Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department now.
Thoughts of harm: Call 911 for an urge or plan, fear you may act, danger to anyone, or inability to stay safe. Otherwise, call or text 988 for immediate crisis support.
Unwanted intrusive thoughts without intent: Frightening thoughts still deserve prompt support. Call or text TLC-MAMA or contact a clinician today; call or text 988 if you are in a mental-health crisis.
If you feel that something is wrong, contact a healthcare professional and say clearly that you are pregnant or were pregnant within the last year.
Words for the call
If a 911 sign is present, call 911 now—do not pause to copy a note. For an urgent concern that does not require 911, use or change these words. A copied note belongs to your device and may remain on its clipboard until replaced.
I am pregnant, or I was pregnant within the last year, and something does not feel right. This symptom is new, severe, or getting worse. I need medical guidance now about where I should be seen. Please document my concern and the plan for follow-up.
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