High blood pressure during pregnancy can be a combination of physiological and emotional causes.  Stress during pregnancy should be avoided whenever possible.  Trust that your body knows how to give birth.  Ignore rude or troublesome friends, neighbors or relatives.   Commune daily with your baby.  Look at beautiful images.  Listen to beautiful music.  Anoint your body with fragrant essential oils.  Do as little work as possible.

Biologically, a mineral imbalance can be the cause of most blood pressure and fluid problems.   Find a good Calcium/Magnesium supplement with Boron.  Hydroxyapatite calcium is the most efficiently absorbed, and Calcium Carbonate is the least efficiently absorbed.  Your minerals also regulate fluid balance, and too much fluid being held can cause swelling, and in the blood stream can cause pressure problems.  Also, when you are not getting enough water, your body will hoard it.  So take your weight, divide by two, and that's how many ounces you should have per day.  Take your cal/mag supplement, and relax.  Click Here to find some calcium supplements.

Watermelon and cucumbers also tend to have a diuretic effect on the body, getting rid of excess fluid, but only the excess.  Cayenne pepper tincture and garlic oil also have a good effect on blood pressure.

When it comes to the actual birth, relax as much as possible.  During the pushing stage, do not add your own pushing efforts to that of your body.  You don' t have to push....your uterus is perfectly capable of doing the job alone.  Women who have heart condition normally are not allowed to push, and their babies are born fine on their own.  If you remain upright during your birth, gravity plus contractions will bring the baby out alone.  Also, the squatting position makes the contractions more intense, so you won't have to add anything to them.  Occasionally, you will hear of a hospital birth in which a woman who received an epidural was so numb that she didn't feel anything and went to sleep, only to wake up and find that the baby had been born in the bed without any effort from her.  So see, your body CAN so it alone.   (This is not an encouragement to get an epidural.....simply an illustration of the body's power to do it's job without help.  Epidurals have many negative side effects, such as dropping maternal blood pressure, lethargic baby susceptible to respiratory distress, and inability to participate in the active giving of birth).