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 Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:14 am
Ok, my fiance and I do not believe in birth control. And we both really want children. We're getting married in October, and I have a feeling we'll be pregnant soon.
My aunt (my mothers sister) had a lot of trouble with her pregnancies. She hemmorhaged a lot with all three babies. She wasn't even supposed to be pregnant because she had,erm....scarring on her fallopian tubes. I'm not sure what its called anymore.
My mom had a decent pregnancy, except she got huge. So I was wondering, what the chances of me having complications?
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:44 am
There's really no way to tell. I know some women who've had family history of problems and they did, some who had none at all.
As long as you are taking the necessary precautions and care, that's all you can do. Take your folic acid and make sure you are getting your routine regular doctor care as well as your GYN care and let them know you have the potential of becoming pregnant, so if there is any problems, you can take care of it now.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:58 am
They've found that things like labor length, baby size, contraction pain, etc. Are not hereditary. People always like to make a link. It's one of those passive links though.
Like have you ever picked up the phone to find someone else dialing in? Well you're not psychic...and neither is the other person. We know that it's not some astronomical occurance because think of all the other BILLIONS of times you pick of the phone and just hear dial tone. Simply by numbers alone we can know that that's a random chance occurance. If either person were pyschic it would happen with a MUUUUCCCCHHH greater frequency.
Lots of women experience similar things to their mothers, aunts, grandmothers, but that's because for all the ways labor/pregnancy can go, it goes in a fairly similar direction each time it happens. Women all over the world, talk about the ring of fire, while the other half of them say..hmmm...didn't feel it. If pregnancy and labor DIDN'T tend to follow a certain course no one would be able to prepare you EVER, your doctor wouldn't even know what's going on each time if every single pregnancy and birth was COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY unique.
Unless your aunt has a blood clotting problem that then led to her hemmoraghing that is also hereditary, you are LIKELY not going to experience any problems like that. BUT Placenta Preevia (where the placenta detatches early and then causes hemoraghing) is something that just happens in some pregnancies and if it happens, it happens, it doesn't mean that you're JUST like your aunt.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:23 pm
When I was pregnant with Ethan, my mother told me to expect that they'd ask me how her pregnancies/deliveries and my grandmother's went: because they used to ask questions like that when she was pregnant with me 24 years ago. When my CNM never asked me about them, I decided to find out why. What she told me was that unless my family had a history of having c-sections due to small pelvises or a history of miscarriages, my mother's labors wouldn't predict how mine would go.
So let me be redundant and say there's no way to know or predict anything until you are pregnant and you actually experience it.
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