Pregnancy, itself, is not a high-risk condition. It is a normal part of our reproductive life.
Most pregnancies have a healthy, happy outcome.
High-risk complications of pregnancy occur in only about 6 to 8 percent of all pregnancies. Therefore, special care is needed to assure the best possible outcome for both. Most of the time, pregnancy goes the way that it should and ends with the delivery of a healthy child. Sometimes, however, a parent may pass an inherited disorder to the baby or a woman may have a health condition before pregnancy or she may develop one during the pregnancy. Some complications occurring during pregnancy itself can put the mother and her baby at high risk.