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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being a Gestational Carrier increases your risk of pre-e. "On top of the risk due to IVF, surrogacy is a risk factor for pre-eclampsia. There is a known paternal effect due to the “foreign” nature of the genetic material. Prior exposure to a man’s sperm reduces the risk of pre-eclampsia when carrying his child, as does each subsequent pregnancy with the same man. In surrogacy this risk is thought to be heightened as the embryo is completely genetically unlike the gestational mother and unexposed to the male[/quote] Right, so she's not risking pre-e, she's risking eclampsia, and probably at an early gestational age. [/quote]
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