Illnesses and Conditions of Pregnancy

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How do you tell if a condition of pregnancy is actually a risk for pregnancy, for labor or for birth or after? If you are given a diagnosis of a condition, is it an illness that needs treatment? A condition that needs watchful attention? Or is it a statement of what is currently happening with your pregnancy? It’s hard to thread through this type of information.

And what if a doctor doesn’t actually give you a diagnosis but instead says that you are “low normal” or “high normal”? What does all of this mean and how do you figure it out?

A diagnosis is often just giving a name to a set of things that are happening to a mother and/or her