Pregnancy complications
Pregnancy complications are health conditions that may need special care.
Throughout pregnancy, go to all your prenatal care checkups, even if you’re feeling fine. Getting regular prenatal care can help you spot complications early—and maybe even prevent them.
Learn about pregnancy complications, including anemia, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure. If you have one of these conditions, work with your provider to keep them under control.
And if you had certain health complications before pregnancy, like preexisting diabetes or depression, find out what you can do to help you stay healthy during pregnancy. There also are ways you can protect yourself from common infections, like the flu and food poisoning, which can cause problems during pregnancy.
In This Topic
- Anemia
- Asthma during pregnancy
- Bacterial vaginosis and pregnancy
- Being pregnant with twins, triplets and other multiples
- Bleeding and spotting from the vagina during pregnancy
- Blood clots and pregnancy
- Cervical insufficiency and short cervix
- Chickenpox during pregnancy
- Cystic fibrosis and pregnancy
- Cytomegalovirus and pregnancy
- Depression during pregnancy
- Eating disorders and pregnancy
- Ebola and pregnancy
- Fifth disease and pregnancy
- Food poisoning during pregnancy
- Gestational diabetes
- Group B strep infection
- HELLP syndrome
- High blood pressure during pregnancy
- HIV and pregnancy
- Inflammatory bowel disease and pregnancy
- Influenza (flu) and pregnancy
- Learn about Zika and pregnancy infographic
- Liver disorders
- Lupus and pregnancy
- Lyme disease and pregnancy
- Maternal death
- Maternal PKU
- Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy
- Oligohydramnios
- Placenta previa
- Placental abruption
- Placental accreta, increta and percreta
- Polyhydramnios
- Preeclampsia
- Preexisting diabetes
- Pregnancy after age 35
- Rubella and pregnancy
- Scleroderma and pregnancy
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Shoulder dystocia
- Sickle cell disease and pregnancy
- Stress and pregnancy
- Syphilis in pregnancy
- Thrombophilias
- Thyroid conditions
- Toxoplasmosis
- Umbilical cord conditions
- Uterine conditions
- Zika virus and mosquitoes infographic
- Zika virus and pregnancy
- Zika virus and pregnancy infographic