If you have had diabetes in your pregnancy, whether you started the pregnancy with diabetes or became diabetic during the pregnancy, there's a good chance that you will have to deal with diabetes in your future. Up to 60 to 70% of women with diabetes in pregnancy go on to become diabetic, or they …
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Don’t Google. But if You Do…| How To Research High-Risk Pregnancy
When you come to the Maternal Fetal Medicine office, and you have gestational diabetes or high blood pressure, or maybe your baby has an issue or a chromosome abnormality, you naturally want to know as much as possible as fast as possible. One of the things I always tell people before they leave …
Trisomy 18 Life Expectancy | Will Babies With Edwards Syndrome Suffer?
If you are pregnant with a baby with trisomy 18, then you probably have two major questions in your mind: How long will my baby live?Will my baby suffer? These two questions inevitably lead you to ask perhaps one of the hardest questions you may ever ask, "Should I continue this …
What Is Edwards Syndrome | Testing For Edwards Syndrome
Today we're going to talk about trisomy 18. I did a post a while back with Kristen, whose baby Hannah had trisomy 18. And in the comments, I noticed a lot of conversation around how we diagnose this condition and what survival is like, and what the quality of life is like for babies who have …