Pregnant colleague admitted to hospital

In my department now, there are 4 pregnant ladies including myself. So we always have a 'duck pond' to 'quack' about. I am at 26 weeks, another 3 at 29 weeks, 30 weeks and 12 weeks respectively.

Last Friday, my colleague (29 weeks pregnant) had a 'swollen' face. In Malay, they called it 'sembap'. Went to panel clinic and was advised to admitted to hospital immediately because her blood pressure shoot up to 176! (normal for pregnancy, the highest is at 130). Lucky in a sense that she had a 'swollen' face, else she wouldn't know that her BP was so high as she had no symptom at all ie blurred eyesight or terrible headache.

Lesson learnt for myself and all pregnant friends:
When there is any peculiarity throughout the pregnancy, first things first, ask the Doc to cehck for Blood pressure and sugar level in blood. Too high of any of these mean high risk to the mother and baby.