For women who have scoliosis, it can be a very anxious time going through pregnancy and childbirth. In truth, there are quite a few risks associated with pregnancy, even if you have a perfectly normal spine. However, there are some definite impacts that scoliosis will have from the time of conception right through to childbirth. Here are some of the ways that scoliosis can impact your pregnancy. Scoliosis and your baby There is a definite possibility that scoliosis will be transmitted to your baby. Roughly 30% of individuals with scoliosis will also have family members afflicted by the same problem. Oddly enough, about 29% of female offspring develop scoliosis, whereas only about 9% of male babies will develop the disease. The good news from this is that you have about a 70% chance that your unborn baby will never develop scoliosis, and depending on its gender, you might only have a 9% chance of passing on scoliosis to your infant. Does pregnancy worsen your scoliosis? In most ca...