I told someone who was talking to a young man about abortion not to argue with him, but just Google "pregnancy complications" or "birth defects" and ask about a different one each day. That is, just ask him, non-judgementally, what he thinks the woman should do in case of that one specific problem without offering a conclusion.
Then the next day, ask about another one, and another, and another - every day for...how long?
I speculated that there would be hundreds, maybe even thousands of distinct complications and/or defects.
But I can't find a website that lists them all. This one has 66 pregnancy complications. This wiki has maybe 100 birth defects. This is obviously the more common ones. But none of these lists are comprehensive.
After all, high-risk complications occur in 6 percent to 8 percent of all pregnancies. 3-4% of children are born with a birth defect. But! 30% - 50% of pregnancies spontaneously abort (miscarriage), commonly attributed to genetic anomaly,
Is there a site with all of the possible problems? I get so sick of anti-abortion activists and abortion terrorists simplisticly presuming that pregnancy is not a risk for the woman, that it's safe and easy, NBD.
Sorry to have to say, pregnancy is scary.
Back story: I am 35, married for 15 years and have always been monogamous. Both of us have. Back in November of 2018 I had what I thought was a bad yeast infection but turns out it was my first outbreak I do in fact have genital herpes. I have no idea how or when I got it but I am one of those people that have lived a genitally normal life up until my first and so far only outbreak. In 2016 I gave birth, vaginally, to a healthy girl and she is just the best. No problems whatsoever. I didn't even know I had herpes then, so there was need for alarm.
But this time around, I have this fear that something bad will happen. There's a possibility for long term health problems/defects if my baby contracts it, and I can not shake this feeling of panic. I haven't had an outbreak since my first one, but I constantly feel symptoms of one coming on and I don't know if it's real or psychosomatic. I've talked to my doctor and he said he sees many women who have gshv2 and have perfectly normal vaginal deliveries. If there's any problems doc says "we can just do a C-section", but I don't want to. I want to deliver my son the same way I did my daughter. It bothers me that my doctor is so non-chalant and I'm panicking because of a real life possibility.
Can anyone commiserate?? No one knows I have it so I can't talk to anyone about it. I've shared on another forum and have talked to very nice people, and while it helps it's still such a small circle that openly talks about ghsv, and throw pregnancy on top of it kinda makes it even less open... Anyone out there like me?
I got a letter today informing me that I had been booked in for a scan in June, due to my bloodwork coming back with a low hormone, PAPP-A. The letter only said that because of this I'll need to have more scans further into the pregnancy, but reading into it shows that low PAPP-A comes with high risk of a low birthweight due to the placenta not working properly, high risk of stillbirth or miscarriage into the second half of the pregnancy, high risk of premature birth, and high risk of me developing pre-eclampsia. The only possible cause listed online is smoking but I've never been a smoker so it can't be due to that. I'm early second trimester, so still a long way to go, and now I'm anxious and I feel like I'm going to spend the rest of my pregnancy dreading something is going to go wrong. I'm going to ring my midwife tomorrow. Has anyone gone through a low PAPP-A pregnancy that can tell me what to expect and give some advice?
