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    Is schizophrenia genetic? If a person who has it would get pregnant would the baby affected? Does it do anything to the person's fertility?

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    This is really a question for a doctor or researcher. Though I believe that there has been some research to show a hereditary component to schizophrenia, it should not directly affect your pregnancy. The medications you take for it may, however.

    You should also ask yourself whether you can raise a child when you have such a serious mental illness. Carefully consider how under control it is on your current medications, and whether you can continue taking the same medications and doses during pregnancy and nursing.

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    I agree with little, the best person to talk to is your doctor. There are many factors that can contribute to schizophrenia, genetics is not the be all and end all of it.

    As for having children, the first thing I would ask is about support network/family...but then I'd ask this to anyone having children, with tip top health or not. If you have an understanding doctor or nurse who is willing to discuss this, I'd spend some time talking to them and discussing this in depth before you make a decision about it.

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    Tara, I believe it's your partner not you that has this problem from what I have read.

    This would be something to discuss personally with your Doctor so that you know exactly what you may or may not have to deal with, the one thing that comes to mind, is that reading all your posts the other day on the way he behaves with you, is how he would behave with a child, would he get angry with the baby? This is something you need to ask alot of questions about, and seek alot of information..

    Your boyfriend may be fit and healthy in the physical sense and that's great but from what I read it appears he refuses to take medication and picks "sex dates" with you and breaks them, gets angry, puts you down...

    This would be a concern for me, the angry part, where a baby is involved.

    Is there anyway you can get him to go back and see a Doctor and "try" some medication I assume he has tried before but is trying to deal with this illness on his own by way of regiment exercise, and I commend him for that, but it does not appear that, that alone is the solution.

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    Schizophrenia, along with other several mental illnesses, can be passed to children.

    What a doctor can tell you is approximately what your husband's, in specific, chances are for his child to develop schizophrenia.

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