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I have Graves' disease treated by surgery and am taking levothyroxine. Are there any problems for the baby?

Firstly you should increase the dose of thyroxine during pregnancy. There is also a very small chance that the baby could be born with an overactive thyroid but if that happened it would only last for about one month and can be treated easily. A blood test during the later part of pregnancy will indicate if there is a high risk of this. 

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