Kim Kardashian Wants A Third Baby, Despite Serious Health Risks

Kim Kardashian wants to have a third baby. “I’m going to try to have one more baby,” Kardashian says in a new promo for an upcoming episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” But a third baby could be very risky for the reality TV star, who revealed in an episode last fall that she had experienced a serious complication involving her placenta during both of her first two pregnancies. [9 Uncommon Conditions That Pregnancy May Bring] “I want my kids to have siblings, but the doctors don’t feel like it’s safe for me,” Kardashian says in the new clip. “I don’t want you to do something that would put you in danger,” Kardashian’s mom, Kris Jenner, says. During her first two pregnancies, Kardashian had a condition called placenta accreta, according to People magazine. Having the condition can increase a woman’s risk of having it again, according to the Mayo Clinic. Placenta accreta affects 1 in 533 pregnancies, according to a 2005 study. It belongs to a group of conditions broadly called “retained placenta,” which means that the placenta isn’t delivered from the woman’s body as it normally would be, within 1 hour of the baby’s birth, according to the World Health Organization. In placenta accreta, not only does the placenta not come out of the uterus as it should, but the placental tissues actually grow deeper into the uterine wall than they do normally. In any case,...
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