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Waiting After Pregnancy to Have Deviated Septum Repaired?

wonderbaby19Sep 22, 2009

I had a miscarriage around 8 weeks ago and we are going to try to get pregnant again, but I need to have a deviated septum fixed. I really don't want to wait to get pregnant, but is it going to affect my pregnancy to have to keep dealing with sinus infections?

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