My name is Hannah Bajor the
Pregnancy Super Coach with over twenty years in the field
taking care of women before, during and after their pregnancy.
I have also specialized for numerous years as a
high-risk prenatal specialist. So I have seen both in the outpatient
setting and within the labor and delivery setting huge complications
of pregnancy where a normal healthy pregnancy turns into a disaster.
According to the most recent statistics in 2004,
you had 13 women died out of every 100,000 women that gave birth in
the United States. So that is 13 women lost their lives for every
100,000 women that gave birth. That is an awful lot of women and if
you look at the babies, statistics are showing that every 150 birth
of a baby born in the United States, the baby is born dead. So with
pregnancy can go wrong.
Pregnancy can end up having huge medical
complications where you can lose your life. So I am not here to
terrify the life out of you, but I am saying if you have been
classed as a high-risk pregnancy please follow every single bit of
advice that you provider has given to you. Become knowledgeable
because the more educated and the more knowledge you have inside
yourself about what to expect about the serious medical complication
that you might be dealing with, then the better chance you have of
being fully confident when to call your doctor in your pregnancy as
to what you should do.
Now, you know pregnancy has a lot of minor
complications. We are not talking about minor complications. We are
talking about major complications of pregnancy, which can range from
severe high blood pressure that is totally out of control and you
end up getting preeclampsia, which means that your kidneys are now
involved and you end up having protein in your urine and a lot of
sweating.
Other major pregnancy complications could be
hemorrhage, your womb rupturing on you, you know it has just
exploded. There are many things that can very seriously go wrong in
pregnancy as far as you are concerned and the same goes for the
baby.
The baby can be delivered early. The baby may not
grow correctly, your baby might be abnormal. You might have too much
fluid, you might not have enough fluid. It could certainly end up
showing that the baby is having intrauterine growth retardation,
which means that the baby is not growing on time, that all its
organs, brain, its whole body is growing very slow, which is a very
serious complication for your baby because we really do not know how
your pregnancy is going to end up.
I say to you, if you have been told you have a
complication in pregnancy, please take it easy. If you have been
told to stop working it means stop working, stop worrying, try to
connect and bond, and use this precious time to de-stress and
constantly reassure your baby that you know things are not going
right, but at the same time the baby is wanted and loved and you are
going to get through this together.