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Physical and psychological preparation
Preparation courses for mothers are essential for most mothers. Led by midwives and doctors in training classes are provided appropriate physical and psychological that motherhood is a positive experience. A good preparation for motherhood leads to increased health and welfare of the pregnant woman and her family.
Despite advances in the epidural, the birth preparation classes remain essential for pregnant women. Anesthesia does not prevent learning to correctly breaths and to act appropriately at the time of delivery.
In addition, we should not ignore the causes of major changes to come, nor how to be prepared to deal with typical situations that occur during pregnancy and the postpartum period. All that you learn in class.
It is also very important to be in contact with other pregnant women with whom you can share your concerns and fears.
Women should be aware that their participation is essential to the birth of their baby and, for this takes place under optimum conditions, experience and training acquired in the course of preparation for childbirth remain the most effective and so far irreplaceable.
The NHS, through its health centers, offers pregnant women very complete preparation courses run by professionals of the highest level.
Maternal education: childbirth preparation courses
Maternal education courses or childbirth preparation allow the mother become more aware of their status and a positive attitude towards it. The methods used in these courses offer the ability to overcome fear and to endure pain better, besides acquiring a good command over the muscles themselves, particularly those involved in the stages of labor. Read the rest of this entry »
Psychology Before Pregnancy
The ideal age for motherhood is 20-25 years, as commonly believed, but in the 34. This is the startling conclusion reached by a British study, published recently in the journal Health and Social Behaviour Journal.
After reviewing the medical records of a sample of 3,000 women who had at least one son, Professor John Mirowski and his team of researchers has found that health problems begin to decline after age 22 and reach the lowest level at 34, then back up, “a woman who has first child at 34 years, “says the scientist,” is, from the standpoint of the state of health, 14 years younger with respect to a woman who has had a child at 18 years.”
It must be said, however, that his thesis does not convince everyone, but the author of the report is substantially in accordance with its critics, “to some extent, is better the longer women wait to have children,” says Mirowski. “Obviously, when the reproductive system begins to weaken, it is risky to delay childbearing. We need to find a balance, weigh the different problems. However, my research shows that from a purely physical standpoint, do not worry about having a child after age 30. And this is the most important data. Women 34 years have no reason to panic when they are pregnant . social and economic benefits of delaying childbirth until later in the process of adult compensated aging. “
Statistics also endorse his words, a generation ago, the average age at which women had a child in the UK was 24 years, now is 29, and continues to rise. For every 1,000 births in 2003, for example, 96 were to mothers between 25 and 29: Well, the category of mothers between 30 and 34 years was just a point behind with 95 births per 1,000.
In our country, motherhood comes even later. According to latest statistics, the average age for a child is around age 35, when in 1975 was 25.41 years.
Psychology Before Pregnancy
Suffer from depression before pregnancy causes changes in the sleep of the baby : sleeping more naps during the day, takes longer to fall asleep and wake up often during the night.
The mothers who have had depression before or during pregnancy are more likely your child has sleep disturbances during the first six months of life. This is verified by the results of a study by the Institute for Sleep and Chronological University of Michigan (USA).
The research is divided into two groups: one group of mothers who had sought counseling during pregnancy, and another consisting of mothers without depression. The children born to mothers slept more naps depressed, they needed more time to calm down and get some sleep and woke up more often during the night.
The infants of mothers depressed showed a sleep-wake cycle unstable unlike the babies born to women who were not depressed. “Keeping a very regular schedule for sleep is incredibly important for babies , “says study leader Roseanne Hermitage.
Chronic sleep deprivation is associated with an increased risk of depression at all stages of life, according to Armitage. In the case of future mothers, lack of sleep is really a problem due to hormonal changes and the need to recover from pregnancy and childbirth. “We have identified one of the risk factors that can help these children develop depression later in their lives, “Hermitage concludes.
The quarantine after delivery
As the name suggests, covers roughly the first forty days after giving birth and is the term used to describe the recovery period immediately after birth, as although most women return to normal physical before, emotional adjustment required much longer
Postpartum Depression
Almost every mother has just given birth have what is known as “baby blues”, a period of 10 days duration approximately characterized by emotional instability that alternate with other moments of tears of euphoria. Irritability or feeling of fear caused by the fear of not knowing whether he can cope with motherhood are some of the most common symptoms. In most cases, this “baby blues” reverses spontaneously within a few days. Now if these symptoms become more severe in intensity and extend over time, mom can go into a depression blues that must be recognized and treated by a specialist.
Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperal stage represent a particularly sensitive period for the occurrence of anxiety-depressive symptoms in both mother and father, conditions that may lead to negative effects on infant development, mainly for three reasons:
1. The direct effect on children exposed to parental mental disorder.
2. The indirect impact of parental disorder on interpersonal relationships.
3. The presence of adversity commonly associated with psychiatric disorders.
A recent study suggests that the prevalence of depression during pregnancy is between 7.4% in the first quarter and 12.8% in the second. After delivery, nearly 80% of new moms going through a phase where fatigue , coupled with the new responsibility, fear and a sense of sadness, generate a high degree of stress that can undermine the already weakened physical resistance psychological and new mom. Read the rest of this entry »
Partners to help young pregnant women
There are also organizations and associations to direct their efforts to help young pregnant women. You can find a list below.
Mother Network Foundation was created in 2007 with the purpose of activating a solidarity of support, advice and help women to overcome any conflict emerged with an unplanned pregnancy, in Spain. The volunteers are trained to direct attention to pregnant women with difficulties and organizations working in support of motherhood. Each year, serving more than 1,000 women.
Grants for young pregnant
Let’s talk today about how to find support for pregnant teens and young women , a situation that many mothers have to face and also sometimes do alone. An unplanned pregnancy is a difficult situation to assume, but more so if the mother is alone and without personal resources and financial support to deal succeed.
The first denial, fear, anger, everything is normal, but in the end, we must make a decision and is an important decision, which can not be taken taken the confusion, panic or feelings of abandonment. This is a decision that will change our future and that is also vital for the child would have. So before you do anything, you have to calm down, look for good advice, rely on family and organize our ideas, seeking, above all, resources to be able to decide freely and responsibly, without closing your eyes, but also without closing doors.
When a teenager or a young woman becomes pregnant without having planned or have equity there is a moment where, if you decide to go ahead and give life to his son, will face economic uncertainty and concern for their logical and the child’s future.
If your family or your immediate environment can not or do not want to give all the support and material assistance they need, or simply if you want to take care of her little boy ecom sustain by itself or with the help of his partner who may also be very young and jobless, the situation is complicated. And if no one supports or is completely alone, still going to be more vulnerable and feel despair at seeing no way out.
In such cases you will need financial assistance or material resources to continue the pregnancy if it is your decision.
For a woman to have her baby and decide freely is necessary to have support networks and financial support measures, employment and education for these girls will be mothers. While going to change all his life and will face difficulties, you will not regret to see their children grow up next to her, but society need to take care of them so that they can care for their children and also to strive to achieve their dreams. Read the rest of this entry »
The ultrasound revealed the baby’s health in the mother
The highest technology, applied to monitoring the process of pregnancy, unlike what happened in past decades, can know the good health of the unborn baby.
One way to ease the anxiety of the mother and father, to know whether the child will be born healthy, but must wait until 20 weeks gestation.
But thanks to an ultrasound next generation is possible to have accurate data possible malformations or sidewalk in various diseases, at week 12, or whatever it is, in the third month of pregnancy.
This scanner is a breakthrough that requires the intervention of a fetal medicine specialist, who can analyze the results obtained from this study to determine the health of the baby inside the mother. Read the rest of this entry »