Medical during pregnancy

[Golaka]

Hi ! Does anyone know how to pass medical exam during pregnancy for family sponsorship? I'm not sure if I can do x-ray, but otherwise they will put me on hold. I want to give a birth in Canada, how can I receive PR faster?
Thanks

 

[jmforever]

I had my medical examination 2 months ago, when i was 5 months pregnant, you just have to let them know that you are pregnant. They put protected shield on my tummy during x ray. And the Canadian Embassy knows that I am pregnant because my husband sent a a letter to them, I am planning to give birth in Canada but until now I am still waiting for my passport with visa.

 

[annabruce]

My wife Anna went through this same issue. There simply is no way to avoid the x-ray. You must do it. You need to make a choice about how much risk you're willing to take. The risk is low with appropriate protection, but there is risk nontheless. Anna and I chose not to take the risk. We decided that if our child was born with a problem we would struggle to deal with the guilt. We would never know whether or not the x-ray caused the problem.

We did the medical without the x-ray and sent this to CIC with a note indicating Anna was pregnant and we would do the x-ray at a later date. Because of the lengthy process of the inland application, I'm not convinced that delaying the x-ray until after birth made any difference at all to the timeline. No way to know for sure. We did the x-ray one month after she gave birth. She landed about 3 months later.

 

[NicAnn]

We did the medical without the x-ray and sent this to CIC with a note indicating Anna was pregnant and we would do the x-ray at a later date. Because of the lengthy process of the inland application, I'm not convinced that delaying the x-ray until after birth made any difference at all to the timeline. No way to know for sure. We did the x-ray one month after she gave birth. She landed about 3 months later.

That's excellent advice annabruce. The research on x-ray radiation shows that the further along in the pregnancy the patient is the less harmful it is to the baby. In the first trimester there is the most possibility for the most harm to the baby because the cells are still differentiating and the cells are dividing very rapidly during this time. Cell damage from radiation is more likely to occur during cell division because that is when the cell is most vulnerable and the damage to chromosomes can do more damage. In the third trimester, the cell divisions are slowing down, but are still at a rapid rate compared to adults, and the possible damage to organs and cells is long term, which means it might not show up until years later when the damage shows up at a later age, and there is no way to be able to determine if it will happen.

True about shielding being used, but it only shields the direct beam, which we try to avoid shooting directly at the abdomen when taking a chest xray anyway. The most radiation will come from scatter radiation from the patient (yourself) as the radiation enters into your body and bounces around inside you, and there is no way to shield for that.

 

[NicAnn]

Shielding mostly gives the appearance of helping shield the baby/reproductive organs. It really does very little to protect from radiation unless the tech is terrible at aiming only to the area that needs xraying (the chest) and has the field wide open to include areas being shielded. Proper collimation is better than shielding, but best yet to wait until after birth of baby.

 

[canadianwoman]

Hi ! Does anyone know how to pass medical exam during pregnancy for family sponsorship? I'm not sure if I can do x-ray, but otherwise they will put me on hold. I want to give a birth in Canada, how can I receive PR faster?
Thanks

I agree with the advice from NicAnn and annabruce. It would really be better to not have the x-ray while pregnant. This does mean they will wait to finish processing your file until after the birth when you can send in the x-ray. However, even if you had the x-ray now, you still probably would not get PR in time to give birth in Canada. This would depend on what visa office you're going through and how far along your pregnancy is.

 

[lioha]

We were going through the same dilemma when we did our medical with my pregnant wife's sponsorship. We chose not to do an X-ray. All the paperwork went through Missisauga for sponsor approval and is now at the Visa Office in Warsaw, Poland. My wife got an email not long ago to send to the Visa Office the birth certificate of our child when our daughter is born and to do an x-ray. They attached a letter to the doctor for my wife to perform an x-ray only. So really, it dealys your application by a couple of months maybe but you avoid the risk for your child which is crucial. My wife gives birth this month and right after we are doing an x-ray and it goes to the VO.