Talk:Complications of pregnancy/Archive 1

Complications of pregnancy
This page needs to be edited for many reasons.

The edit I added to this article is just vague importance of info related to common complications attested to pregnancy and when they usually occur in the pregnancy. As well as the medical condition of Gestational Diabetes is mentioned to bring awareness as well as provide information.

What is the problem? The word is too generic and means comprises everything and nothing.

In medicine, there are signs, symptoms, complications, and syndromes.

This is a list of signs, symptoms, complications, and syndromes.

Signs and symptoms do not always indicate a diseased state; rather, they just indicate that a third party or the first person have noticed something different (from the norm).

The term Complication, on the other hand, can be defined as being read on the relevant WKP page.

Ectopic pregnancy is a state of disease that occurs solely in early pregnancy.

Writing "The routine problems are normal complications, and pose no significant danger to either the woman or the fetus." is a contradiction in terms. COMPLICATIONS ARE, FORTUNATELY, NOT ROUTINE. Where are all the eager beavers?

--Drrem (talk) 12:06, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps the title should be changed to "Health issues related to pregnancy". This way the article can encompass more serious and less serious issues. Ablib Sound (talk) 10:08, 11 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I think both complications of pregnancy and symptoms and discomforts of pregnancy are extensive enough to justify being separate articles. I think we benefit from this distinction, such as by being able to classify morning sickness as belonging to the symptoms and discomforts of pregnancy, while hyperemesis gravidarum belongs to complications of pregnancy. Mikael Häggström (talk) 17:48, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Postpartum depression
Shouldn't it get a mention somehow, somewhere?--TyrS (talk) 13:36, 26 August 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅. Added it. Ablib Sound (talk) 10:10, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

not "Routine maternal complications"?
Wouldn't this make more sense than "Maternal routine"?--TyrS (talk) 02:36, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge Risk factors in pregnancy to Complications of pregnancy
The scope of the article Risk factors in pregnancy appears to be "factors increasing the risk of complications of pregnancy", and therefore I think it should be merged into Complications of pregnancy. Mikael Häggström (talk) 13:38, 15 July 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅. This suggestion has been uncontended for 2 years now, so I've performed the merge. Mikael Häggström (talk) 10:38, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

what about hyperemesis?
Hello, I think that -- as the most frequent cause of hospital admission in early pregnancy -- hyperemesis gravidarum should be mentioned in the list of complications. As a (necessarily biased) sufferer I think it should be in the list of serious maternal problems, but I do not know how serious and routine problems have been classified up to now. Happy to draft a section if there are no objections from engaged existing authors 94.223.164.40 (talk) 22:38, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I see it is mentioned now. Mikael Häggström (talk) 17:49, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Scope: complications of childbirth or just pregnancy?
The title of the article is complications of pregnancy, but seems to include complications of childbirth, seemingly at random; for instance, there is mention of perineal tearing, but not of haemorrhage.

There's also Childbirth but that seems a bit incomplete too. How should this be organised? Mvolz (talk) 14:50, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I have moved the complications of childbirth to their own subsection, but open to deleting them and pointing to Childbirth instead. Mvolz (talk) 15:04, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Since no objections have been raised, I plan to move this to Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium to better describe the scope of the article. Mvolz (talk) 13:14, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * After some consideration I've aborted the move and diverted some of the post-childbirth stuff to Puerperal disorder which was a long standing stub. But I'm not wedded to this approach. The issues is primarily that most articles/information about prevalence of pregnancy complications lump it in together with all causes of maternal morbidity, many of which occur during childbirth or in the postpartum period. Mvolz (talk) 15:12, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

General risk factors structure
I think that the risk factors section could have a better organizational structure to clean it up a little, for example using subheadings. However I was not sure what the best way to group the factors together into subheadings would be. Possible options could be: biological factors, environmental factors, and behavioural factors OR genetic factors and non-genetic factors. If anyone has any better ideas or thoughts on this please feel free to share! Lara.murph (talk) 17:44, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Rephrasing first sentence
Instead of saying these complications are caused by pregnancy, would it be better to phrase it as health issues that can occur during OR are related to pregnancy or childbirth? Lara.murph (talk) 15:31, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Low risk pregnancy inquiry
Hi all, I was reading the sentence under "low risk pregnancy" and found it to be a bit unclear on what it is suggesting. Also, I noticed it cited a primary study. I am new to editing and may be misguided but I believed that it is preferred to stick to secondary sources for citing information on health for Wikipedia? Lara.murph (talk) 16:26, 20 March 2019 (UTC) Update: I have decided to remove this point after reading the main article. I found that what was being discussed was that the difference in quality of care in secondary vs primary care centers for pregnant women increased the likelihood of women with low risk pregnancies (who use primary care centres) experiencing delivery related perinatal death relative to women with high risk pregnancies (who use secondary care centres). This comments more on the quality of health service in the Netherlands which is quite niche and not very relevant here. Lara.murph (talk) 17:28, 27 March 2019 (UTC) —