Pregnancy: Would you risk death to have a baby? - The Telegraph 24th March 2008

Women born with cardiac problems endanger their lives when they undergo childbirth. Victoria Lambert meets some of the risk-takers The moment 33-year-old Catherine Baker realised that her pregnancy had put her life in danger occurred not while she was pregnant but, incredibly, 18 months after her son Joshua was born. For only when she decided to have a second child did she learn that her aorta - the principal artery that carries blood to the heart - had stretched so much due to her first pregnancy that it had weakened considerably. Were she to become pregnant again, she was told, there was every chance it would burst, killing her before the nine months were up.

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