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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Women usually expect to not feel well during pregnancy. But Cecily Foster knew something was wrong. "I began to swell, so bad I couldn't even wear my own shoes," Foster says. "I was really tired, but [my doctor] associated that to what typically happens to a pregnant woman. " Shortly thereafter, "I went into my doctor's office for my weekly visit, and that's when then they noticed that my amniotic fluid was very low," says Foster. She ended up giving birth to her daughter four weeks early. And while mom and baby were OK after postpartum heart failure delivery, the worst was yet to come. "I woke up, and I noticed a pain in my chest," Foster says. "My first response was [to] go ahead and call my doctor. . . She called me back five minutes later and said, 'Go straight to the emergency room. '" Foster was diagnosed with postpartum cardiomyopathy-- a rare form of heart failure that occurred during her last month of pregnancy. "There was nothing that shows that something was going on- no signs and symptoms of the typical signs and symptoms of some sort of heart disease or heart attack," Foster says.

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