All pregnant women with fibroids should go for skilled childbirth care by the most senior members of the delivery team. Such pregnancies are high-risk pregnancies. Women with fibroids should not be handled by unskilled childbirth attendants. They need specialized care. Their haemoglobin levels must be high because the women with fibroids generally bleed more than others. They bleed more than others during caesarean section. They also bleed more than others following vaginal birth.

 PREGNANT WOMEN WITH FIBROIDS, HUSBANDS, MENTORS AND FRIENDS

Abdominal pains that come and go can be the first signal of fibroid co-existing with pregnancy in a young woman. It is the due to degeneration of the interior of the fibroid with a relatively poor blood supply. As a fibroid grows, it can outgrow its blood supply especially in its interior. The dying fibroid tissue produces pain. The pain can be excruciating in some people requiring hospitalization, infusions, analgesiss and antibiotics for there to be relief. Occasionally. There is no relief requiring myomectomy even in pregnancy. Read our account of a case like that in our recommended.

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Pregnancy-Related challenges due to fibroids.