What can categorise you as a high risk pregnancy?

Answer 1

Lots of different things! Keep in mind that being in any of the following categories does not mean that you'll have a difficult pregnancy. Most moms in the categories below do just fine, and so do their babies:
- Advanced maternal age - meaning that the woman is 35 years old or older during any part of the pregnancy.
-Extremely young mothers - women/girls age 17 and younger.
-Diabetes, high blood pressure, or other pre-existing medical conditions.
-Having multiple fetuses, either by chance or resulting from fertility treatments
-A history of having had multiple miscarriages or of having a stillbirth
-A history of difficult pregnancies
-Social factors, sometimes. At a hospital where I used to work, homeless women, women who were in abusive relationships, and women with substance abuse problems or a history of them were automatically classified as high risk.

Answer 2

With my last pregnancy, I was 38 years old and had Gestational Diabetes. This put me in a high risk category. I think age can put you in a high risk category as can medical conditions.

Answer 3

Well, I have the following:
Septated uterus
Thyroid disease
Gestational diabetes
Pre-eclampsia
Pregnancy Induced Hypertension
Was told any individual one of these could be classified as high risk complications, so all of them together are certainly high risk! lol

Answer 4

history of premature births, not gaining enough weight during pregnancy, not eatting or eatting enough, placenta tearing, child losing oxygen, child not big enough in weight, child too big, too big of a head, age, smoking or nonsmoking, previous problems with pregnancy, past miscarriage or abortions, the list goes on and on

Answer 5

Lots of things. High blood pressure and diabetes.

Answer 6

*History of miscarriage
*high blood pressure
*late age (past 35 or so)
*complications-- fetus growth, blood test results, etc.
*early labor signs/contractions.