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Q: I Have Limb Girdle Md Is It Safe to Get Pregnant?
asked by: Lilpaskittle01 on September 17th, 2005
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I have been diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy and i'm not sure if it would be safe to get pregnant being as the most affected area is my hips and the muscles in that area. I'm not sure if I would have the strength to give birth vaginaly or if I should have a c-section. I want to have kids so bad but my boyfriend is afraid of something happening to me during labor. I wadel when I walk and have lots of back pain but I didn't know if I would even be strong enough to carry a baby. Can anyone help me?
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sandyallen
replied on September 17th, 2005
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Hi there! My feeling is the best thing you can do is to both go in and talk to either your regular Dr., or gyno. If not you can always adopt, there are a lot of sweet children out there that needs a loving home. Good luck, keep us posted, I am very sorry about your md, I have a lot of medical problems too so I do understand the pain, but I am a lot older than you. My heart goes out to you!!
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El
replied on September 18th, 2005
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I don't know really- you'd have to ask a specialist I think.
I always thought only males get muscular dystrophy? I thought woman carry it, but pass it to their sons?
My mother's brother died of ducene's muscular dystrophy (i think that's how it's spelled) when he was about 13. Some of his sisters have had healty boys, but all of the girls inmy generation have only had girls (14 of them !!!) so there's really no way of knowing whether we are still carrying it in the family without genetic testing.

If it's just the birth you are worried about, you probably wouldn't need to decide which way you'd try to do it, an emergency c-section can always be done if need be. You should find out about the likelyhood of passing the condition on, in the event you conceive a boy.

Good luck.
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GabbyL
replied on October 13th, 2009
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I have two children.One 22 and the other is 30.Both are fine though neither have been tested for MD.I had no trouble having my kids.This is something to discuss with your doctor.My doctors told me not to have any but my faith in God helped me to feel comfortable enough to go ahead and have mine.No one else in my family has MD.I've always been the lucky one...LOL.I don't catch the common cold.I only get the things for a more likely to kill me..lol So far I've lived through being born without a doctor in the room when my mother had me.Was turning blue from not breathing.My mother almost lost me when she was pregnant because her father had died. I had double pneumonia a the age of five(nearly died from that).Diagnosed with LGMD AT 13.Hepatitis when I was 19.I've been fighting a war since day one..lol

I pray that when and if I do have grandkids that this god awful disease doesn't rear it's ugly head again.My daughter has been unable to have kids thus far.I feel sometimes as though god may be trying to spare us. Sad

I wish you well friend..
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