Comments on: A Nurse Making History https://awhonnconnections.org/2016/05/03/a-nurse-making-history/ Where nurses and families unite Fri, 06 May 2016 11:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: neonurse75 https://awhonnconnections.org/2016/05/03/a-nurse-making-history/comment-page-1/#comment-871 Fri, 06 May 2016 11:34:54 +0000 https://awhonnconnections.org/?p=1490#comment-871 Hi Anna 🙂 Good question. Here is what I copied from the transplant project’s website. To read in full, click the link.

“Studies have been done on women who have received kidney and liver transplants and who have taken immunosuppressants during a pregnancy. Included in the studies are 15,000–20,000 children born to mothers with organ transplants.

These studies suggest that the child can be born about one week earlier than usual, that the child may have a slightly lower birth weight than normal and that there is an increased risk of pregnancy poisoning. This is not held to be due to the patient’s immunosuppression but rather to the fact that the patient’s illness which occasioned the transplantation in the first place may have resulted in this pregnancy problem. Nothing in the studies suggest an elevated risk of fetal malformation.”

http://sahlgrenska.gu.se/english/research/uterus

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By: A Nurse Making History | Neonurse https://awhonnconnections.org/2016/05/03/a-nurse-making-history/comment-page-1/#comment-867 Wed, 04 May 2016 20:18:19 +0000 https://awhonnconnections.org/?p=1490#comment-867 […] A Nurse Making History […]

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By: Anna https://awhonnconnections.org/2016/05/03/a-nurse-making-history/comment-page-1/#comment-866 Wed, 04 May 2016 19:43:42 +0000 https://awhonnconnections.org/?p=1490#comment-866 This is awesome to provide this for parents who have had issues but do they continue the immunosuppressive drugs during the pregnancy and if so what effects does it have on these babies?

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