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Eight tips for a healthy pregnancy
Now that you know you are pregnant, it is more important than ever that you begin to care both physically and emotionally. Your chances of having a trouble free pregnancy and a healthy baby are greatly increased if you follow these tips:
1. Select and visit a gynecologist as soon as possible
Good prenatal care is essential to the health of your baby and choose your doctor as soon as possible means you have several months to build a good relationship in preparation for childbirth.
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Psychology: Your Emotional State
For a woman, pregnancy is much more than a fact that compromises your body. It is not only of biological, physical, hormonal, but there is a revolution in psychological and emotional.
For most psychologists pregnancy is an important event in women caused mixed feelings. On the one hand, is a source of great joy, and secondly, the cause of many fears. Emotional changes were already apparent during the first month of the quarter. There’s no physical signs that show evidence of pregnancy, but possibly you are very tired, sleepy, somewhat confused by how the pregnancy will develop more sensitive … It seems that the action of hormones has much to do in that mood. Read the rest of this entry »
Conduct of normal childbirth
You are at the end of your pregnancy, you lose water or you experience painful contractions and close it’s time to leave for maternity. From your arrival at the facility in your room with your baby, this is what happens.
The arrival at the maternity
Upon your arrival, a midwife is your constant (voltage, temperature) and considers the cervical dilation. She puts on your arm a catheter to be used in cases of infusion and install two sensors in your stomach that monitoring records uterine contractions and the baby’s heart.
The early work
You are then installed in work room. You can get up and do exercises with a ball.
Every hour, a midwife measure cervical dilation and takes your constants. Of regular monitoring can estimate a healthy baby.
Gradually the contractions become more frequent and painful.
Namely: if the expansion is too slow, your baby may suffer. The wise woman you are given a product to accelerate the frequency and intensity of contractions. The contractions can cause vomiting.
Epidurals
The cervix is dilated to 3 cm: it offers the epidural you will give birth without pain. An anesthetist practice then a sting in your back, place a catheter into the spine and injects the anesthetic: your pain fade in 10 minutes.
Once the epidural placed, you can not move, eat or drink. You are under continuous monitoring.
Namely: You can request the epidural until 7 or 8 cm dilated. Make up your time!
Expulsion
When the cervix is fully open, it fades away undertakes baby and you feel an urge to push. This expulsion.
The midwife then install the brackets at the end of the bed to elevate your legs.
You should push strongly to the rhythm of contractions. This stage lasts about half an hour. The portion of the head is the hardest, then the body comes alone. Sometimes you make an incision of the perineum (episiotomy) to prevent tearing.
Namely: the gynecologist obstetrician is called in case of complications, if any need to use forceps or suction cups to help your baby out.
The issue
Your baby is born but it is not finished: it is the placenta. This phenomenon usually occurs without effort 20 to 30 minutes later.
Baby First Aid
Immediately after birth, your spouse can cut the cord.
A medical team takes care of your baby and unclog his airway by suctioning the mucus in his nose and mouth. Your baby is weighed and examined from every angle! Fontanelle, hips, genitals, shoulders, abdomen … The midwife then took his temperature and it takes a few drops of blood.
Once dressed and his ID bracelet in place, your puppy may find your arm.
Namely: we often measure the baby the next day.
And the mother?
Meanwhile, you are not forgotten! The most important thing is to check that all the placenta was expelled. The stitches are made in cases of episiotomy. After two hours of monitoring, you regain your room with your baby.
These are: the average labor lasts 12 hours for women giving birth to their first child and 8 hours for others.
Ultrasonography of the third quarter
Observe the growth of the fetus
Measurements. As always, the sonographer begins by walking the sensor on the entire surface of your abdomen. The fetus is already too big for him to see in its entirety, but stopping on the skull, femurs, the doctor is able to take action. These data are essential to ensure the baby continues to grow normally. At this stage of pregnancy, weighing between 1, 4 and 2 kg and measuring about 40 centimeters, all organs are working and will soon be ready to go.
Morphological examination. The sonographer continues his review focusing on organs have developed a disease from ultrasound in the second quarter, including the brain, heart and kidneys. It checks for example that communications are established between the heart and the atria are normal or that the kidneys are working properly.
The fetal well-being. Another important aspect of ultrasound in the third quarter: make sure the baby is moving well, he made hand movements that his animated face and swallows it normally, which means for the specialist as it breathes well. A Doppler examination to verify the quality of exchanges between mother and child and then feeding the fetus via the placenta.
The presentation of the baby. It has already upside down in the lower segment of the uterus? Perfect. Ready for the big trip, it is likely to remain in that position until delivery. A breech deliveries or it appears in transverse position? Do not worry, he can still turn around and another ultrasound at 37 weeks of pregnancy will make sure. If this is not the case, your gynecologist will prescribe a scanner to measure your pool. If it is large enough, you can give birth vaginally. Otherwise, a cesarean will be scheduled.
Diseases during pregnancy
Infecciones
Any pregnant suffering from infection should be treated as if I were not taking into account two things: avoid the fever rises over 38 ° and medicate if needed, but with simpler and known antibiotic possible (avoiding the modern that have not been tested in pregnancy). Sometimes, if there is pus, the doctor will tell a culture to find the best drug. Should drink plenty of water to prevent dehydration and eat foods rich in vitamin C as oranges or kiwis, to enhance defenses.
Kidney colic
When a pebble is stuck in the duct that lowers the kidney to the bladder (ureter), there is a very intense intermittent pain, sometimes with nausea, vomiting and a lot of unrest. If the picture is not can trigger contractions in the uterus and promote premature birth, also predispose to kidney infections. You have to take medication prescribed by your doctor without fear. To relieve the pain is very useful to apply hot water in the side that hurts, it is taking a warm bath or a shower directed at the affected area. Drink lots of water helps to remove the stone. The có1icos can be very annoying (some say more women than childbirth).
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ABO blood type incompatibility between mother and fetus
There are two classifications used for different types of human blood, the ABO and Rh.
* In the case of the ABO, people can be type A, (only accepts other A and O have antibodies against B), type B, (only accepts other B and O have antibodies against A), type AB (accepts A, B and O, no antibody) and type O (only accepts other O has antibodies for everything else).
* In the case of Rh, people can be positive or negative. The negatives develop antibodies against the positives.
But what is all this antibody?
It means that the body recognizes that element as an invader like a bacterium or virus and attacks it.
What is the ABO blood incompatibility?
Also known as Perinatal hemolytic disease, occurs when the blood of mother and fetus are of different blood groups that we are compatible. For example, if the mother has type O blood and the baby is A, the body of the mother identifies the “A” written on each red blood cell of the fetus as if it were a disease and attacks, destroying the baby’s blood.
What to do if there was diagnosed?
Do not fear the worst. In most cases of ABO incompatibility is possible to have the baby under medical surveillance as the “writing” in the baby’s red blood cells is weak and more difficult for the body of the mother’s note, so do not develop fetal erythroblastosis and have a benign disease.
I need to attend the controls from the time suspected to be pregnant, so it will detect whether this problem exists in time. Controlled with proper care the baby will be as normal as the rest.
Exercises in preparation for childbirth
Childbirth is a moment filled with anxiety and many moms, especially if they are first-time. It is true that physical work of labor compared to the physical work performed by an Olympic competitor, and just as a high performance athlete, moms also have training exercises that prepare your muscles for this crucial moment.
Here we show you four simple exercises that help strengthen and help improve the flow of strategic areas of your body.
Kegels
This exercise serves to strengthen the pelvic floor (group of muscles supporting the bladder, ureters, uterus and rectum). By improving the circulation of this area favors the recovery of tears that can occur during childbirth, and also if it was necessary to perform an episiotomy. Improving circulation in the anal area also prevents hemorrhoids and prevent suffering from postpartum incontinence.
* You can practice the exercise sitting, reading, watching TV, or standing. Tighten the muscles around the vagina, as if trying to interrupt the stream of urine in the bathroom and count to four, then relax the muscles. Start with about four and up until reaching 10 with practice.
* You can practice three times a day.
Angry Cat
* Place your hands and knees on the floor, keeping arms straight. Do not open or close a lot of arms and legs, must agree to the breadth of the shoulders and hips, respectively. As inspired by tightening the abdominal muscles and lower the position of the buttocks as if to bring them into the stomach.
* Relax and return to the normal position while you release the air.
* Repeat at your own pace, depending on your breathing.