How to plan for a pregnancy in a Post-COVID19 world. We break it down in our latest blog:
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic certainly disrupted daily life for most of the world. Since then, there has been an emphasis on creating policies and strategies to keep the world as safe and healthy as it can be. As states begin to relax stay-at-home orders, people are planning for their futures in the new world we are living in. For soon-to-be parents and those thinking about becoming parents, planning for their families is especially crucial.
Getting key insights into your health and the health of your baby doesn’t have to be difficult, but it does take a little bit of planning. An important way to start preparing for the growth of your family is to start thinking about genetic screening.
Being a carrier is very common. It means that you inherited a normal gene from one parent and a gene with an irregularity, also called a mutation, from the other. As long as you have one normal copy of a gene, you typically don’t have any symptoms, so it’s very rare that someone knows they are a carrier.
If both parents are carriers for the same condition, there is a 1 in 4 chance for each pregnancy that their child will have the condition. Some conditions can be caused when only the mother is a carrier, such as fragile X syndrome. The conditions included on carrier screening panels are serious conditions most people would want to know about either before conceiving or while pregnant so that they can prepare. These include:
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