Doctor asked pregnant woman with complications if her second baby was with the same man — it pointed to a little-known factor in his health
Complications during pregnancy are often associated with women's health issues, and society often forgets that there are several other factors at play. A mom named Sam McGuire (@samalamadingdongdoo) worried that she'd face the same issues as her first pregnancy while having her second child. To enquire, she reached out to her OBGYN and shared the scenario with her. In turn, the doctor asked her one question about her partner that pieced together the puzzle that she had been trying to find an answer to. In the clip shared on December 4, 2025, the woman revealed the jaw-dropping question with a hysterical yet real acceptance.
McGuire had medical complications and health issues during her first pregnancy, which prompted her to ask her OBGYN if she'd face them again if she chose to have another baby. She asked if she'd have Hyperemesis, Gestational Diabetes, or preclampsia again. However, what she wasn't ready for was the question her gynecologist was about to ask her back. She looked at her and asked if she was pregnant with a second baby by the same man as the first time. That's when it clicked for her that a majority of her medical problems during the pregnancy were associated with her partner's health and weren't completely her fault.
"You're telling me that this random midwestern man who says holy smokes unironically and genuinely believes that the Chicago Bears are going to make a comeback every single year is the reason I threw up 36 weeks and had to have an emergency C-section?" she quipped. McGuire noted that although her gynecologist did not completely blame it on her partner, she remarked that his health could be an indicator for the complications she had to endure or may endure if she chooses to have another child with him. According to a study published in Science Direct, there is a direct association between preconception paternal health and the risk for adverse maternal outcomes among healthy mothers.
As seen in McGuire, the study noted that "the odds for preeclampsia without severe features increased in a dose-dependent fashion and were 21% higher among women whose partners had ≥2 metabolic syndrome diagnoses than among women whose partners had no metabolic syndrome diagnosis." The study concluded that paternally derived factors play a major role in indicating the complications that women face during pregnancy and childbirth. McGuire had no choice but to accept and reiterate that it's the ones who are closest that will have you "throwing up for 36 weeks."
McGuire's video struck a chord among women across the internet, who chimed in to share their thoughts. @juliapardo_tacoma wrote, "My husband got sober, prioritized his health, ate better and cut out junk food for most of the year to give me the best chance possible of having a healthy and easier pregnancy." @paris_da_aris commented, "Crying over 2 miscarriages, my lovely Husband goes, 'Babe, I was doing research, and did you know, it's all my fault when you miscarry,' and then proceeds to show me articles. I was shaken up, but it also healed me. I don't randomly cry so much when I think about it." @elizabethrblount wrote, "You gotta tell him to get fit! The more fit and healthy he is, the easier it'll be on you for pregnancy."
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