The probability of having a healthy baby can be calculated in advance, before childbirth and even before conception. You may not be a specialist in medicine, but it is enough to have common sense, logical thinking and remember the school basics in the field of genetics.
Instructions
Step 1
The health of the unborn child depends on the usefulness of the parents' organism. It is they who transmit all the genetic information to the new generation. The probability of having a baby without pathology is much higher in strong mothers and fathers than in patients. Many mental and physical illnesses are inherited. Check out the medical records of the parents, on the first pages there is a sheet for recording the final diagnoses. It is there that you can get information about diseases. The longer the list of pathologies, the more diverse and wider the spectrum of manifestations, the less likely a healthy generation is.
Step 2
Parents' genetic diseases affect the likelihood of having a healthy baby. If the father or mother has a pathology associated with the X, Y chromosome, then it is necessary to resort to formulas from the field of genetics. XY (father's set) + XX (mother's set) give a different genetic set, if one of the 46 chromosomes is encoded incorrectly, then the whole body of the child suffers. Draw the formula on a piece of paper and connect all the combinations, marking the allegedly diseased gene in the parent with a different color. The percentage of the probability of having a healthy baby in couples where one of them is sick will be combinations in which there is no labeled gene. Assuming that both are sick, mark the gene in each chromosome pair with a different color, then there will be much less pure combinations, respectively, the probability of a generation without pathology is negligible. Often, women do not suffer from male genetic ailments, but are carriers of a disease associated with X. Such mothers pass the defective gene to their sons with a probability of up to 50%.
Step 3
Remember that if the mother's blood is Rh-negative, and the dad passed on a positive gene to the child, then the Rh-conflict arises. Incompatibility causes a woman's defensive reaction, and her body directs all actions to reject the fetus. Such a baby does not always survive or is born with a high probability of developing hemolytic disease of the newborn.
Step 4
Analyze your parents' addictions to bad habits. If the future father and mother abused alcohol, nicotine or drugs, then the likelihood of having a child without pathology drops sharply. Everything that a woman takes during gestation is transmitted through the blood to the fetus. Every toxicological substance from a woman's body affects the baby and reduces the likelihood of having a healthy baby.
Step 5
Read the history of infectious diseases from the pregnant woman's card. Many viral lesions of the mother cause irreparable harm to the health of the fetus. For example, rubella damages the auditory nerve, and cytomegalovirus causes cerebral palsy in babies.
Step 6
Be aware of the dangerous periods during pregnancy. All transferred, even minor, stresses and pathologies of the mother at 6, 14, 18 and 28 weeks of intrauterine development have an extremely negative effect on the baby's condition and reduce the likelihood of having a healthy baby.
