Does anemia affect natural labor

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Anemia for many girls is not strange, but once associated with the baby, mothers will pay more attention to it. So, can women with anemia give birth naturally? Next, let's see what experts think about this problem.

Does anemia affect natural labor

First: pregnant women suffering from anemia, because of insufficient oxygen supply, easy to feel tired, and appear dizzy, limb weakness, shortness of breath after activities, heart beat faster and other symptoms. These symptoms are detrimental to fetal growth and development. On the other hand, because the oxygen needed by the fetus comes from pregnant women, anemia of pregnant women will lead to fetal hypoxia, serious stillbirth, premature birth, birth weight is also light.

Second: anemia in pregnant women will increase the chance of concurrent infection, directly affect the contractility of the uterus during delivery, and may cause labor stagnation. Anemia is particularly serious in pregnant women, delivery may also cause massive bleeding, life-threatening.

Third: severe anemia of pregnant women due to hemoglobin carrying oxygen deficiency and fetal hypoxia, resulting in intrauterine growth retardation, premature birth, and even stillbirth. Pregnant women are also prone to pregnancy induced hypertension syndrome. Although there is not much bleeding during and after childbirth, it can also lead to shock due to insufficient blood reserves, or myocardial damage due to severe anemia.

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It is mainly caused by malnutrition and folic acid deficiency, and a small part is caused by vitamin B12 deficiency. Folic acid and vitamin B12 are important coenzymes in DNA synthesis. Folic acid itself has no activity, and tetrahydrofolate has coenzyme effect. Tetrahydrofolate is produced by dihydrofolate through the action of folate reductase, which is unstable and easy to be oxidized. Therefore, all can prevent the formation of tetrahydrofolate, so that folic acid metabolism disorders can occur this disease. When it is deficient, DNA synthesis is impaired, and various tissues of the whole body can be affected, but the most serious is hematopoietic tissue, which causes the proliferation and maturation of erythroblasts, and megaloblasts with abnormal morphology and function appear in bone marrow. These abnormal megaloblasts have a shorter life span than normal, and are often destroyed prematurely, which is also the cause of anemia.