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Shutterstock Choosing if and when you want to have children is one of life’s biggest decisions. Your career path, relationship status, financial health, and long-term goals all factor into the equation. For women living with migraine, the decision can be even more complex. Concerns about the pregnancy, the health of the baby, and the additional daily stressors of living with a debilitating disease can lead many women to question if having a baby is the right choice now or ever. Study Shows Fears About Pregnancy With Migraine Are Common According to a September 2020 study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, nearly one in five women with migraine avoids pregnancy because of her disease. The survey of 607 women with migraine found that the most common reasons women cited for avoiding pregnancy were fears that migraine symptoms would worsen during pregnancy, that having migraine would make their pregnancy difficult, and that migraine medication would aff ....