Standard pregnancy tests including home kits are still reliable in kidney disease, unless your urine output is very low when a blood test can be done. Ask your doctors just how severely your kidneys are diseased. Pre-eclampsia is one potentially serious complication of pregnancy that is more common in women with kidney disease. Pre-eclampsia is a combination of high blood pressure, and a leak of protein from the kidneys into the urine. It only happens in pregnancy.
Most cases are mild, but some are serious and require early delivery of the baby.
High blood pressure is commoner in people with kidney disease, and this makes pre-eclampsia more likely. A lot of attention is paid to the control of blood pressure in pregnancy. Starting pregnancy with uncontrolled high blood pressure makes the chances of a miscarriage high. Having kidney disease itself does not harm the baby. However a few kidney diseases are inherited and may be passed onto a child.