A recent research has asserted that although women with Multiple Sclerosis are at a slightly higher risk of delivering via a cesarean section or have babies which grow at a slower rate in the womb, it should not make pregnancies overly difficult for them.

The findings, which were published online in Neurology on November 18, revealed that women with MS were not any more at risk of developing conditions like preeclampsia or premature rupture of membranes than others.

For the sake of research, details collected for a national database of information on 18.8 million childbirths across 38 states was analyzed, which included deliveries by nearly 10,000 women with MS. There were some differences in deliveries by MS affected women and those by others, but not enough for experts to conclude that the former group should find pregnancies difficult or impossible.

"These results are reassuring for women with MS", study author Dr. Eliza Chakravarty of Stanford University School of Medicine. "Women and their doctors have been uncertain about the effect of MS on pregnancy, and some women have chosen to delay or even avoid pregnancy due to the uncertainty. We found that women with MS did not have an increased risk of most pregnancy complications".

Through the study, researchers were able to conclude that women with MS faced far lesser complications, and were at reduced pregnancy related risks, compared to diabetic women.