The participants affirmed that, with pregnancy, they experienced more pain crises and recurrent infections, including urinary tract infections. Studies have shown that maternal complications are frequent, especially the infectious ones, bringing considerable morbidity to pregnancy. When evaluating occurrences of pregnancy in women suffering from SCA, urinary tract infection was the most frequent problem, accounting for a quarter of cases, while pneumonia was presented as the second most common infection, with 23.5% of cases(3,11).