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First visit to the obstetrician
Suspecting be pregnant, check with your doctor. It is important that pregnancy is controlled from the beginning. You see, in most cases, you need only follow the directions of your doctor to carry a pregnancy to term without risk. At your first visit to the doctor, being pregnant, do not forget to mention if you are taking any medication.
Surely the specialist you’ll be sorry, you take blood pressure, your heart rate and hear you perform a pelvic exam by vaginal similar to that makes you gynecologist. Because many problems of pregnancy can be inherited your doctor will ask you questions about your family history.
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How to choose your obstetrician?
The obstetrician is the professional who deals with the care of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Often the practitioner gynecologist and obstetrician is also learning about the pregnancy, the woman decides to continue meeting with him. But if not, should “take the field” for a doctor to accompany you at this important stage of his life.
In the event that it is a novice who is not pregnant, is likely to recur at the same obstetrician who attended the / previous births, if the experience was satisfactory. Otherwise, you are in the same situation as a novice and should seek a new physician, but with the advantage of the experience of childbirth and the relationship with an obstetrician, therefore will have very clear what is expected of the professional .
If you choose an obstetrician “zero” is important to ask for recommendations. That’s good to listen to friends who already had babies and is also a very good thing that can provide the clinician and / or gynecologist. The first appointment with the obstetrician used to meet, talk and see the link that is generated between the professional and the couple.
Keep in mind that people are all different. If a friend recommends us to your obstetrician as the “best” for their expertise in their pregnancy, there is no guarantee that to us the same thing will happen because each individual has different needs and as the saying goes: there is a doctor for each patient. So it’s good to attend the first appointment without prejudice or expectations and make your own experience, taking the time for this important election.
Visits to the obstetrician
The obstetric visits are an important part of your pregnancy. If your pregnancy without complications will visit the doctor every month until you reach approximately 30 weeks. After the visits will be every two or three weeks. After 36 weeks your obstetrician may want to see you every week.
It is very important that you take the time to select a doctor, should be someone you trust, with whom you can talk to clarify all your doubts and worries with consistent responses.
While waiting for your next visit list all your doubts thus better use the time to visit and avoid him forget about all the questions.
It is important that you aware of any medications you are taking, and always consult him before taking any medication.
Generally, each visit, the doctor will take control of your weight, blood pressure, urine, measure your abdomen to determine the growth and position the baby and monitor your baby’s heartbeat. These controls are subject to the individual obstetrician.
When the pregnancy goes beyond 35
Spending more time alone with the couple to settle or to travel economically, for example, performed professionally and many other reasons cause more women today are mothers in that age range, at one time belonged to the “mothers years.”
The term mother, who applied to women over 35 years, has fallen into disuse, because on the one hand, it is increasingly common for women to postpone motherhood and, secondly, because in vitro fertilization ovodonation today and are very common and can resolve problems that once seemed insurmountable. However, we must not ignore that, after 35 years with the aging of the egg, it becomes increasingly difficult to get pregnant and also increase the likelihood of occurrence of spontaneous abortions and births of children with Down syndrome.
So if a woman decides to become a mother after 35 years should, first performed a general check up and implement the necessary precautions to minimize risk and carry a healthy pregnancy: for example, stopping smoking, if it ago, lose, or gain weight, if needed, begin a fitness routine-if it has not yet started, control blood pressure and tendency to diabetes, stop drinking and supplement their diet with folic acid and with all the supplements as directed by the obstetrician.
If pregnancy is not achieved naturally and is used assisted fertilization, we study the couple and ova and embryos prior to the procedure “and this is because it is scientifically proved that the possibility of conceiving a baby with birth defects, especially Down syndrome, is accentuated with age: if a 25 year old woman has 1 chance in 1250 of having a baby with abnormalities chromosome as Down Syndrome, that probability rises to 1 in 400 to 35 and 1 in 100 at 40.
That’s why after 35 years indicate amniotic fluid analysis to determine if the embryo has any chromosomal abnormalities. Genetic counseling and ultrasound are studies that give more information on baby health and the proper progression of pregnancy.
In addition, another set of diseases that occur more commonly in mothers over 35 years, such as hypertension, which can be caused by pregnancy and is called preeclampsia – and gestational diabetes, pregnancy-product also . The more complicated deliveries, which often derive from or are scheduled as caesarean sections, and even premature babies with low birth weight are also more common in mothers than 35 than in those who are in the range of 20 to 30
But motherhood after 35 is possible and is a very special experience, because the baby is mature and experienced parents in many ways. With proper controls and care, a pregnancy at this stage may take quite normally.