Risk factors There Before Pregnancy part 1

Some risk factors present before women become pregnant. These risk factors include physical and social character specified in women, a problem that occurred in previous pregnancies, and specific disorders that have been held.

Physical Character

Age, weight, and height in women during pregnancy affects the risk. Girls aged 15 and younger are at high risk of preeclampsia (a type of blood pressure that occurs during pregnancy). Young women are also at higher risk of underweight (too small for the age of pregnancy) or malnourished infants. Women aged 35 and older at high risk for problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes during pregnancy (diabetes that occurs during pregnancy), and complications during childbirth.

Women who weigh less than 100 pounds before becoming pregnant are more likely to have a small baby, weighing less. Obese women were more likely to have a very large baby, which may be difficult to be born. Also, obese women were more likely to have gestational diabetes and preeclampsia.

Women who are shorter than 5 feet is more likely to have a small pelvis, which could make the movement of the fetus through the pelvis and vagina (birth canal) difficulties during labor. For example, the fetus is more likely persistent shoulder against the pubic bone. This complication called shoulder dystocia. Also, women are more likely to experience shorter labor and preterm babies are not quite developed as expected.

Structural abnormalities of the reproductive organs increased risk of miscarriage. For example a double uterus or cervix is ​​weak (incompetent) which tends to open (dilated) as the growth of the fetus.

Social Character

Being married or in a low socioeconomic group increased problems during pregnancy. The reason is the nature of this increased risk is unclear but possibly related to other properties that are more common in women. For example, women are more likely to smoke and less to eat health food to get proper medical care.

Previous Problems In Pregnancy

When women experience problems during her first pregnancy, they are more likely to experience problems, often the same thing, in subsequent pregnancies. Some problems include having premature babies, babies who weigh less, babies who weigh over 10 pounds, babies with birth defects, miscarriages before giving birth late (postterm) (after 42 weeks of pregnancy), Rh incompatibility that require blood transfusions to the fetus , or giving birth requiring a cesarean delivery. If a woman has a baby who died soon after birth, they are also more likely to experience problems in subsequent pregnancies.

Women may have a condition that tends to make the same recurring problem. For example, women with diabetes are more likely to have a baby weighing more than 10 pounds at birth.

Women who have children with genetic disorders or birth defects are more likely to have another child with similar problems. Genetic tests on the baby, even if the new born, and both parents the possibility of another pregnancy right before attempted. If a woman becomes pregnant again. Some tests such as ultrasound, chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis can help determine whether the fetus has a genetic disorder or birth defect.

Have had six or more pregnancies increase the risk of a very fast labor and excessive bleeding after childbirth. It also increases the risk of a misplaced placenta (placenta previa).




Continues : Risk factors There Before Pregnancy part 2