Is high blood pressure all she has?

While the hypertension is an issue, there is the alcoholism which will be damaging her liver, and yes there are those who wear their's out by age forty. Number one getting pregnant while using alcohol can cause harm to the baby, number two getting pregnant while smoking can cause harm to the baby. Then there is the risk of bringing a baby into a home with an active alcoholic. (We don't have children now because my husband is an alcoholic, now sober, but when he was actively drinking for the first 15 years of our marriage the situation was not one I was willing to bring a baby into no matter how much I wanted one.)There are other antihypertensive drugs she could possibly take, so I think that might be a concern she should take up with the physician. But if the other two issues were to be addressed, the blood pressure medicine may no longer be needed.