High-risk Pregnancy
Multiple pregnancy = High Risk Pregnancy
When multiple pregnancy it qualifies as a pregnant high-risk obstetrics due to higher chance of complications either during pregnancy as the moment of birth itself.
even be why, in multiple pregnancies, unlike of the singleton pregnancies, most often needing a cesarean mainly by the position they have babies at the time that triggers labor.
Typically, babies are placed with the head down, so is called cephalic or vertex position. However, in cases of twin pregnancy, babies who are this position fail to exceed 50%, and one or both babies are in transverse position, lying on the maternal abdomen, or in breech position, sitting.
The question is, if possible be a vaginal delivery in such pregnancies. Indeed, in cases where the two babies are vertex, headache, may be a vaginal delivery as long as no complications with the umbilical cord so as to placental location. Read the rest of this entry »
Care for high risk pregnant
Move a high-risk pregnancy experience is sometimes very hard to bear. If you live it has touched, you know the feeling of anguish and uncertainty affects not only the pregnant but also to their immediate environment.
And this is because we face a future full of questions, not knowing if the risk can be overcome or stop irreversible consequences. It is the same for a pregnant that your baby is developing normally, to discover that something is wrong and is being put into risk the life of one or both.
Nor is it to get pregnant knowing in advance what pre-existing conditions that could affect normal child development: genetic background, maternal heart disease, diabetes, advanced age or something enough, are some of the factors that determine a high-risk pregnancy .
How to act in these cases? The advice given by people who have gone through similar situations are always very helpful, but having enough restraint and information come first. An environment of affection affective enough to make you pregnant women cope better during the months of waiting. Loved and cared knowing that she will also be more attentive to details as important as watching your diet and lifestyle for that to result in better development for the baby to be born. Read the rest of this entry »
High-Risk Pregnancy
Is that pregnancy complications are more likely to t oth maternal and fetal during pregnancy and parto.y that requires a strict medical control.
What are women who may present a high risk pregnancy?
There are multiple situations that make the catalog obstetrician gynecologist a woman may have a pregnancy care.
Thus we have the pre-pregnancy maternal pathologies, such as hypertension, diabetes, coagulopathy, epilepsy, obesity, low maternal weight, endocrine disorders, uterine abnormalities and so on.
Another group are those with adverse obstetric history, maternal or fetal pathology as partners such as intrauterine growth retardation, preeclampsia or eclampsia (pregnancy-induced hypertension), intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, fetal malformations, previous preterm birth, stillbirth, etc..
We also have the fetus and placenta and cause multiple pregnancies, placenta previa and so on.
Is age of women helps to give a high-risk pregnancy?
Yes, the woman’s age is closely related to the risk during pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »
Ectopic Pregnancy: Diagnosis and Treatment
Diagnosis
It is difficult to make, it is estimated that up to 12% are misdiagnosed, resulting in serious complications for the delay in correct diagnosis. Identifying the disease early is a necessary measure to prevent breakage of some of the structures or risk of maternal death from excessive bleeding. The doctor referred Based on the statements and findings on physical examination, together with the presence of risk factors, have the elements to establish a timely diagnosis. The pregnancy test should be positive. In case of doubt, request imaging examinations.
Treatment
Because this is an aberration of pregnancy that is incompatible with the baby’s life and endangering the life of the mother, it can not be left to develop. Without complications, the treatment is abortion, which is performed through minimally invasive surgical procedures (laparotomy).
Complications
Are mainly due to the tissue breakdown caused by growth of the fertilized egg. The principal is bleeding, which can lead to shock and death on the pregnant woman. For some women, fertility may be affected.
Pregnancy After 40
The participation of females in professional life has led women to develop increasingly in various occupations: politics, medicine, law, etc., But all this at what cost to extend the maternity leave?
There is no reason to question the right of every woman to perform professionally, more so in the competitive world of today, where both men and women should show their talents to survive a shrinking market consumerism.
Work and Pregnancy
Work and pregnancy, are they compatible?
Most studies hinder the achievement of pregnancy, impair fertility and increase the rates of spontaneous abortion
Recent studies on pregnancy and labor position suggests that about 87% of workers are affected in their fertility because of work to be carried in his usual place of occupation.
Without going any further, Ms. Estíbaliz Sanchez, had to sue his company for not wanting to give the low of pregnancy, thereby forcing her to continue with their normal work, to be carried out in a chamber at 2 degrees of temperature and Pallet conveyor machine, with the consequences at the level of temperature and vibration which may be the baby during the first months of development.
Dr. Victoria Verdú, a gynecologist at the clinic Ginefiv assisted reproductive stresses that more and more frequent consultations which they receive in their center due to an alteration of the gametes, both male and female, simply because be subjected to much more stress than existed previously.
Moreover, the type of job and what it involves, such as chemicals, posture, vibration and even higher sound frequencies, are triggers for that fertility may be impaired and at the time of wanting to conceive, can not be achieved naturally. Read the rest of this entry »
High-risk Pregnancy in Developing Countries
The pursuit of motherhood at high risk of maternal mortality, both during pregnancy and during childbirth in developing countries.
Campaigners for the rights of women warn of the danger, yet, in underdeveloped countries, to complete a pregnancy. The risk to pregnant women in these countries is the same as British women were 100 years ago.
The International Women’s Day, groups for the Rights of Women, among them is Amnesty International, Oxfam and the White Ribbon Alliance, reported that despite the many promises of improving the health of pregnant women in developing countries, we are still far from achieving this objective, which is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals agreed by the UN.
Rights groups of women reported that 450 women die during childbirth or pregnancy, for every 100,000 births in developing countries, and that this rate is similar to that presented the United Kingdom in 1910, maternal mortality rates.
Jane Dreaper correspondent on health issues for the BBC, said that in some countries such as Afghanistan, Haiti and Chad, this rate is still higher.
Dreaper, notes that many of the problems facing these women are preventable with minimal medical care to treat problems such as bleeding and some basic infections. Read the rest of this entry »