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How to increase my chances of getting pregnant
I am suspicious of ideas
- The sexual position is not ideal: No need to stop making love in one position because you have heard it was more conducive to procreation is a myth! Experts recommend, however, the positions that will bring the sperm as close to the cervix, that is to say the missionary position, the positions where the woman is on the back or side, and greyhound. The positions where the woman is the man, however, are avoided.
- The female orgasm has nothing to do with pregnancy and ovulation orgasm are completely independent, so you do not enjoy forced to procreate.
- The legs in the air after the love is useless: no need to bend you painfully in the position of pear after love, it would have no impact: the sperm does not flow into the uterus as in a funnel, but crosses the neck guided by chemical signals. However, you can stay on his back about ten minutes before getting up, so give them a chance to as many people to move.
I’m not afraid to consult a specialist
If you can not procreate, it may simply be due to any pathology. It should then go see a specialist. Discomfort during menstruation, pain during intercourse, backache, diarrhea or constipation are all symptoms you should worry.
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.
Get Pregnant
Here are some tips for help conceive faster because it is rare that the first successful attempt to become pregnant. Moreover some doctors believe a year as a reasonable time for a couple to achieve a healthy pregnancy. After that time, just recommend starting to have tests to determine if there is a problem of infertility in one or both members of the couple.
Have sex the day before or the day of ovulation increases the chances of getting pregnant. A few days before ovulation, your cervix produces cervical mucus, which facilitates the travel of sperm into the uterus. For more accuracy, you can get an ovulation test, which measures the LH hormone in urine, or take your basal temperature barely get up.
You can spot yourself that cervical mucus. Two or three days before ovulation, the flow is abundant, transparent, and stringy (like egg white).
Another important factor is the frequency of intercourse. Doing it every day does not mean a greater chance of becoming pregnant. Sperm survive in fertile mucus 3 to 5 days, so that the ideal frequency would be every 2 or 3 days. Daily relations deteriorate sperm quality to not allow for proper sperm production.
With respect to the positions, you must practice positions to facilitate the arrival of sperm into the uterus. By implication, are not recommended standing poses or those which drain the semen in the vagina.
Maintain a healthy diet and eliminates the snuff and alcohol from your life. There is evidence that both decrease fertility. After intercourse, stay in bed for about half an hour, and if you put a pillow under your pelvis rather, to maximize the chances of sperm reaching the egg.
No man should wear tight-fitting underwear and avoid hot baths in tubs, affecting sperm production. It is also said that the contractions produced during the female orgasm helps the sperm swim faster and may reach its goal, so let’s have fun!
Tips for coping with nausea
Hormonal changes, increased sensitivity of smell and excess stomach acids are among the factors contributing to that 80% of pregnant women feel nausea. Usually they will disappear by the end of the first quarter, although in some cases can last throughout pregnancy. Be sure to consult with your doctor if you vomit repeatedly, excessive vomiting can cause dehydration.
To survive the nausea we suggest:
* Eat meals in small quantities and at frequent intervals. Nausea may be worse if the stomach is empty.
* Eat foods rich in carbohydrates and proteins
* Have on hand water crackers; probá waking to eat some and wait about 30 minutes before getting out of bed.
* Nausea may be worse when taking prenatal vitamins. Check with your doctor if this is your case.
* Avoid spicy foods, fried, which produce acidity and eating less fat.
* Eat yogurt rich in vitamin B, which reduces nausea.
* Smelling lemon and / or drinking water or tea with lemon.
Swimming during pregnancy
Swimming is one of the most desirable sports to do during pregnancy and has virtually no risk if practiced with care.
These are some of the benefits that you provide this activity:
* The feeling of lightness allows your joints are released
* The horizontal position facilitates a better distribution of body weight without overloading a particular area.
* Being an aerobic activity improves cardiorespiratory system.
* PROVIDE tone the muscles, exercising the arms, back, abdomen and legs, so it is considered a complete activity.
* Helps to relax the most congested areas during pregnancy are common waist pains caused by the redistribution of body weight and the “typical poor posture of the pregnant woman“.
* Helps control your weight, you feel agile and active.
It is important that you attend the pool is clean and safe. It is also desirable, if it is within your means, you choose those times where the crowd to the sink is less, to avoid collisions with other swimmers or noises that are annoying you.
Consult your doctor before starting the activity.
How much folic acid should be taking?
Folic acid is a substance found in many foods and has been shown that in certain regions of the world in which there is a deficiency of folic acid in the diet, such as parts of England there is an increased risk of malformations in nervous system – such as spina bifida or myelomeningocele, and has also been seen that administration of folic acid in the diet prevents this type of malformations.
That is why the administration should be the same in women who are looking for a pregnancy, and folic acid should be taken before pregnancy to occur and continue eating until around the third month of pregnancy. The recommended dose of folic acid to prevent problems with neural tube closure are about 1mg per day, unless the woman has a baby with a problem of this kind, in which case the recommended dose is higher, around 5 mg per day.
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.