Pregnancy is often a time of bliss, coloured by a touch of paranoia and worry about how everything will turn out, for a woman who’s expecting — but add a previous diagnosis of multiple sclerosis to the equation and it might easily compound the concern.
However, these moms should be able to rest a little easier now, thanks to a research project at the University of British Columbia.
A comparison of data for 432 women with multiple sclerosis to 2,975 women without the disease found that essentially, there were no additional risks associated with MS in terms of how the delivery went or the condition of the baby.
The study appears in Monday’s edition of the Annals of Neurology, a journal published for the American Neurological Association.
“It’s reassuring to women with MS who are considering to start a family that essentially there were no risks associated with MS in terms of birth outcomes,” said co-author Helen Tremlett, Canada Research Chair in neuroepidemiology and multiple sclerosis.
“When we compared mothers who had MS to mothers who did not have multiple sclerosis we found that there were no differences in birth outcomes such as mean birth weight, gestational age of babies, so they weren’t being born prematurely to women with MS.”
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