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Tips to Recover After Pregnancy Line
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You have just given birth and do not fit in you happiness with your baby. However, pregnancy has produced several changes in your body, including several extra kilos over. During pregnancy, the doctor told you that the ideal was to win one kilo per month but, without realizing it, you’ve gained twenty kilos during the nine months pregnant and you do not look in the mirror. However, this is not the time to diet or wild excesses, so we leave you a few tips to regain your figure:
- Surely you are breastfeeding your baby, so you can not eliminate any nutrients from the diet or drastic dieting. However, it can avoid saturated fats, found mostly in sweets and eat a balanced diet. It’s a good idea to go to a nutritionist to give you guidelines for the diet.
- Exercise. Just take a walk for thirty minutes. A good idea is to put your baby in the stroller and take him to the park to walk a few laps, which will clear you while you tone your body.Seize the moments in which your baby sleeps to do the things you can not do while awake. Do not stand watching TV. You can do the housework, a few minutes of yoga or any other activity you enjoy.
- Seize the moments in which your baby sleeps to do the things you can not do while awake. Do not stand watching TV. You can do the housework, a few minutes of yoga or any other activity you enjoy.
- Do not buy larger clothing because it would be like if you were installing on those extra kilos. Ideally, keep the same clothes and clothing to be recovering as you recover your line.
- Make up and take care of your appearance, as this will help you feel better and have more courage for the day to day.
Benefits Breastfeed for Mother and Baby
It is giving the milk from mother to baby from the moment of birth through two years of life, preferably. Once you have given birth to the baby, the pituitary gland (hypophysis) begins to increase the amount of production of a hormone called prolactin, which stimulates breast cells. These cells begin to absorb nutrients from the bloodstream and use it to produce milk.
Since this process takes very little time, the first days after birth your breasts produce a fine white fluid, called colostrums. Since milk, colostrums are nutritious and contain antibodies (defenses against diseases that contain the mother). After 3 or 5 days produced milk. Prolactin controls the amount, to the point that the more milk the baby takes, the more prolactin pituitary and produce more milk will be.
When the baby stops sucking, milk production ceases in a week or two. The flow of milk is controlled by the reflection of closure. Otherwise the milk would be leaving continuously from the breast. When the baby sucks the nipples respond by sending sensory impulses to the hypothalamus in the brain. The hypothalamus immediately directed to the pituitary gland to produce hormones (oxytocin) that travel through the bloodstream.
When they get to the breasts, the cell surrounding the socket, where milk is stored, and contract and thus leave the milk duct. The whole process takes 30 to 60 seconds. Once the milk, the reflection of “stop” and “march” is easily triggered. Often the same sound of crying stimulates reflection. However, stress can interfere with the reflection. Read the rest of this entry »
Progress in Malaria Vaccine During Pregnancy
A recent study has developed an important step towards the creation of a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria. The parasite causes the disease can cause fatal reactions in women during their first month of pregnancy.
With the development of the vaccine will prevent many deaths and problems during pregnancy.
Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite of the genus Plasmodium that is transmitted to people by the bite of a mosquito. When these mosquitoes bite people, the parasite enters the liver where it multiplies rapidly and goes on to infect red blood cells or erythrocytes. Febrile seizures this causes sudden, intense, every two or three days. This process is exhausted, leaving the body in the case of young children is a high probability of fatal without treatment.
That is why malaria causes about 400-900 million cases of fever and approximately 2-3 million deaths annually, the vast majority of cases occur in children under 5 years. The only way to direct infection among humans is that a pregnant woman transmits them by spraying insecticides to the fetus, which is why these women were particularly vulnerable to this disease because the parasite prevents nutrients from the mother pass through the placenta, thus resulting in abortions and premature births. This disease is very worrying, especially in countries with high infant mortality.
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Myths about nutrition in pregnancy
Pregnancy is a wonderful stage of creation, giving life to a new being, and therefore this stage requires special care for the mother, as well as adequate food in order to promote the birth of a healthy baby, good weight and full development.
There are many myths about nutrition during pregnancy and the weight gain to be taken at this time. It is our goal to clarify some of these myths and provide tips on nutrition in this important stage of life.
Myths and Realities
1. The mother should eat for two.
This is completely false, studies have shown that during pregnancy increases the power required extra 300 kilocalories a day. These can be met by adding an extra cereal daily (1 reb. Bread or ½ 1/2T potato or rice or 1 tortilla) 2 vegetable, 2 fruit, 1 protein (30g of meat, chicken or fish or beans 1/2T, beans or lentils) and 1 milk (1 glass of milk or yogurt or 1 reb 1t. cheese).
2. The more weight increases the larger mother and baby.
False, excessive weight gain by the mother does not translate into a larger baby but if you increase the likelihood of the mother to develop some diseases such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia. The average weight gain is from 9 to 13 kg and will depend on factors such as weight to the design, establishment of the mother, food type and genetic factors.
3. The mother should raise the minimum possible for not being overweight after.
False, weight gain during pregnancy ensures that your baby’s weight is appropriate, increase blood volume needed to irrigate the baby, the placenta has good size for feeding, to increase the mammary gland for lactation and adequate to form a fat reserve to protect the baby inside the uterus and also to be a reservoir for breastfeeding.
4. In pregnancy may increase the likelihood that the mother was constipated.
True, many mothers may suffer from constipation, it is important to include in your diet whole grains (bread, tortillas, cereal fiber) legumes (beans, beans, lentils) and fruit (preferably with skin) and vegetables and drink at least 8 glasses of fluid a day.
Third Month on Pregnancy
Changes in Mother
You may find that your appetite improves, although they continue or are craving and certain smells may bother you.
Changes Uterine and placental
The uterus is filled with amniotic fluid, the placenta is small but fulfills its function of secreting estrogen and progesterone to exchange nutrients from mother to baby and baby products toxic to the mother.
Size Uterus
Your uterus is now the size of a small grapefruit.
Physical Changes
The blood volume increase 40% -50% during pregnancy. As a result, you may begin to notice your veins more, particularly in his stomach, breasts and legs.
Emotional Changes
Nausea can begin to decrease slightly. Hormones are responsible for the appearance of spots on the skin.
Physical and Psychological Changes in Trisemester Pregnancy
PHYSICAL CHANGES
During the first quarter, she focuses mainly on physical changes. In the absence of menstruation, is often added some discomfort in the pelvis and increased vaginal secretions.
Women feel more tired and have more sleep than normal, because your body is working very hard to form the placenta and embryo development. You may also suffer vomiting and dizziness after getting up in the morning.
Rise
This is due to metabolic and hormonal changes she is experiencing, especially the concentration of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG, responsible for secreting estrogen and progesterone in early pregnancy. This hormone is to detect blood and urine to see if the woman is pregnant or not.
It is also common for the mother feel the need to urinate more often because the uterus begins to press on the bladder.
Increase the volume of the breasts and are more sensitive due to the action of estrogen and progesterone. These changes occur in preparation for lactation.
The areola, the pigmented area around the nipple, acquires a darker color below the skin is a network of bluish lines that supplies blood to the breasts.
It is also during this period that increases the production of maternal blood (hematopoiesis), whose main function to promote the exchange of nutrients in the bloodstream of the fetus.
This increased production of blood, about a liter and half liter or more than usual, gives a woman that looks healthy and glowing is said to acquire pregnant.
In this period tend to increase between 1 and 2 kilos of weight if there were no problems with nausea. This weight gain does not correspond entirely to the fetus, but also the placenta, the amniotic fluid, the uterus, breasts and increased blood volume.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES
During the first trimester of pregnancy is common that women also experience mood swings. This is probably due to hormonal changes necessary for the body to maintain the pregnancy.
Some women may have mixed feelings about motherhood, even when the pregnancy is planned, and raises are prepared for motherhood. The state of insecurity and anxiety are alternated with states of euphoria.
These concerns are fading as the months go and the woman adapts to her new state.
Nutrients During Pregnancy
When you are pregnant, you have to always remember when you’ve eat that you “must eat for two”.
What nutrients are needed most?
- Folic Acid
- Vitamin D
- Iron
- Calcium
- Zinc
It is present in various foods such as liver, whole grain breads, cereals, beans, peas, leafy vegetables (spinach, chard, beet greens, etc..), Fruit and yeast. It is a water soluble vitamin (which is diluted in the fluids of the body) is required for DNA synthesis, cell division, development of red blood cells, prevention and treatment of anemia during pregnancy. Its deficiency during conception and early months of waiting has been associated with poor birth outcomes, especially defects in the brain and neural tube such as spina bifida (a congenital cleft of one or more arches of the spine, where Leaving the spinal cord as a tumor). These problems develop during the first month after conception, before most women know they are pregnant, so it is important to take folic acid at least one month before conception.
It is fat-soluble (which is diluted in body fat). It is very important to help calcium absorption and distribution. To get it, pregnant women should be exposed to the sun regularly. If this is impossible, with only consume enough milk to meet calcium needs is obtained, because milk is fortified with this vitamin.
Iron carries oxygen to all body tissues, is part of the muscles and the rest is stored in the liver, bone marrow and spleen. Iron has three functions:oxygen transport, energy production in muscle and DNA synthesis .The amount of iron needed by the body increases during the growth stage, women of reproductive age, pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body. The 99% is in bone.
It is necessary for the formation of bone structure of the baby and to maintain strong bones of the mother. The need for calcium is crucial during the last trimester, when formed bones and teeth of the fetus. If the mother’s diet does not replace the necessary calcium, the baby will take the ore that is available from the maternal skeleton, causing bone weakening. Foods consisted calcium, are :milk, yogurt, cheese, greens (spinach, chard, Chinese mustard, etc.) and soybeans. If that does not tolerate dairy products, the woman must take preparations containing calcium, because otherwise your bone structure will be weakened, to remove the baby that much-needed mineral.
The majority of zinc is stored in muscle and is highly concentrated in red and white cells.
It is very important for pregnant women by the functions it performs in the body and must ensure their consumption during the entire period of gestation, to avoid inter alia, the risk that the baby is born with low birth weight.