According to the medical model, there is always a risk in being pregnant. Pregnancy is a symptom of illness. Even the way labor is treated in the hopital reflects this line of thought. The woman enters the hospital and is put in a wheelchair.
People wear rubber gloves and masks.
And some women see it as sickness. Pregnancy becomes a symptom of having a child. Pregnancy is a state of becomming and creating and bringing a woman in touch with her body. Being in touch with emotions and sensations and intuition and physical changes may be different from a great deal of this societies values, but it is not illness.