Can Maternal Health affect the fetus?|Cardiac, Thyroid Issues in Mother

"Maternal Health is very important for example if you have heart disease and preexisting heart disease. This will affect how the baby is going to grow and depending on the heart disease, there are ways for us to optimize the condition if they have a septal defect and you can fix that before the pregnancy and we don’t want that complication to happen. If you have heart disease, say valvular heart disease, if you are a mother with a heart problem, you have a child with a heart problem. So genetically there make an effect of mothers illness on the child. Aside from that we don’t correct the cardiac problem or if you become too sick. So early baby in an ICU having its own last of struggle. These are issues we face. Sometimes the pregnancy is compromised where the mother gets very sick and delivery maybe compromised as well and a whole lot of issues can come, other issue can be if you are hypothyroid. If you don’t fix thyroid, depending on the thyroid level, the baby’s brain development can get affected. So there is always an option for us to fix and try and sort these problems out before you get pregnant so that you can decrease the effects of maternal complications which then decrease the effect on the baby as well"