High-Risk Pregnancy: What It Is, Symptoms, and For Which Pathologies
Introduction
If you have landed on this article, it means that you are pregnant and you are interested in knowing more about high-risk pregnancy.
In the following lines, we will see in detail what it means to deal with this eventuality from the point of view of your well-being and that of your puppy and what you can do to protect yourself as a worker.
What is high-risk pregnancy?
A high-risk pregnancy is a pregnancy in which, due to pre-existing conditions or risk factors that become apparent later, there is a higher probability that the mother and fetus will have to deal with complications , even very serious ones, during the wait, during birth or after it .
Main risk factors
There are several factors that allow us to speak of a risky pregnancy.
Here is the list of the main ones:
Very young maternal age - less than 15 years - or more than 35;
mother with an overweight or obese BMI;
medical history characterized by events such as preterm birth or delivery of a low birth weight infant;
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pathological conditions diagnosed before the positive test (tumors, HIV, diabetes, hypertension , autoimmune diseases, etc.);
mother who smokes and/or consumes alcoholic beverages;
medical history with episodes of drug use.