Pregnancy Complications

Pregnancy, most definitely, is a blissful time. Mothers all over the world would vouch for the feeling of completion that pregnancy provides. These times are immensely enthusiastic times but caution must be the watchword as certain complications can mar the beauty of these times.

Most women experience pregnancy complication sometime or the other during pregnancy. Most of them have it under the boil and hence the complications do not pose any undue threat. In few cases though, the potential harm can be really monumental.

The most obvious harm that a woman might undergo is birth defects. This is largely attributable to radiations, chemicals, drugs or other medications taken during pregnancy for different reasons. They inhibit the growth of a fetus and causes birth defects.

Ectopic pregnancy is another such complication which has high statistical rate of dead deliveries and miscarriages. Ectopic means “out of place”. Sometimes the egg while on its course of being fertilized does not reach the uterus and gets jammed in the fallopian tube, abdomen or cervix, (the blockage is caused due to some inflammation or irritation in these organs) Anything apart from the uterus is loosely built and cannot take the stress. This results in their rupture and subsequently profound bleeding finally leading to a miscarriage in most of the cases.

Sometimes the developing complications can be far from relatable to pregnancy itself. For example, fevers, infections and various other disorders in a woman during pregnancy can contaminate the placental blood.

Apart from these minor maladies, a mother might suffer from gestational diabetes, anemia or gross complications of placenta. Even placental abruption cannot be ruled out. All the last mentioned names can be fatal for the child and increases rate of mortality even for the delivering mother. Sometimes due to the poor detachment of placenta, the umbilical chord might also strangulate the fetus before or just after the delivery.