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Sex during pregnancy: benefit for all
In most cases, sex during pregnancy poses no risk, even when the delivery date approaches, if the doctor approves. However, one of the most common pregnancy myths is that you can not have sex, especially once advanced pregnancy.
During the 9 months of pregnancy will be no change in the couple’s sex life, stages in which there will be more activity or stages at which overcome the inconvenience, and in addition each family will live in a different way, so it is difficult to generalize.
But what is certain is that if there is no contraindication, have sex at this stage can be very beneficial for many reasons, both mother and baby and the couple’s relationship.
And without forgetting that the world of sexuality fortunately is very broad, and options such as fondling and masturbation or sex play without penetration is an essential part of pleasure.
Benefits for the relationship between dads. Because the couple is a special time that we strengthen the common project of having a child, fortifying an emotional attachment also through the bodies. Read the rest of this entry »
Proper positions for sex during pregnancy
The charges make the pregnancy hormone to ‘a volcano’, but it is time to test the positions of ‘Kamasutra’.
During the first three months of pregnancy can present three types of sensation in women. “First, a complex of guilt and sexual rejection or inhibition, and second, fear the result of physical changes that are being generated, and third, the sexual appetite remains despite the hormonal burden,” says sexologist Carlos Pol Bravo psychiatrist.
However, there is evidence that sex during this time is more common than believed. Especially in the early months, blood flow and the exaltation of estrogen. In addition, pregnant women are more uninhibited, because during pregnancy there is no risk of becoming pregnant.
“After the third month away slightly couple’s sexual intent nuisance as dizziness and nausea that harm the aesthetics of the erotic world,” said Fernando Bohorquez, director of the Sexuality Clinic Colombian families and couples.
Contraindication
Despite the psychological and physical process by which flows through the mother, intercourse is contraindicated only if you have bleeding or discomfort and if the gynecologist determined to be a high-risk pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »
The stages of pregnancy
There are three different stages of pregnancy, called trimesters, each about 13 weeks. The stage of pregnancy, or trimester, is important for the growth of your baby and may be uncomfortable for you. As your body adjusts to the raging hormones of a new pregnancy, it is possible that the experience of illness and moody mornings. Your breasts will swell and lose their period. Your baby will grow from a small group of cells from an embryo with the beginnings of the eyes, ears, fingers and toes. The baby will be able to move his arms and legs. At the end of the first quarter, you may notice that you are “show” and your doctor can tell what sex the baby is.During the second trimester, your belly will grow as the baby does and you begin to feel the baby move.
You may experience headache, dizziness and back pain of the changes that occur to your body. Fortunately, the disease has disappeared in the morning, but you can start to retain water. Your baby’s bones are developing and which is covered with a thin layer of hair called lanugo. As your belly expands, you continue to gain weight. However, the second trimester is the time most pregnant women enjoy the most.The baby’s growth slows at the end of the third quarter. Vital organs are developed and fat begins to develop under the baby’s skin. During the last weeks of the third trimester, the baby begins to descend into the birth canal.
They have gained 25-35 pounds (ideally) and may experience some fatigue and numbness in the pelvic area. It is more frequent urination and your breasts may begin to feel heavy and leak. Of course, the third quarter ends with the birth of your baby! Maria writes for Pregnancy Due Date, a site that tries to information for expectant mothers. For more articles on pregnancy, visit our Pregnancy articles archive.
Hemorrhoids during pregnancy
Hemorrhoids are plexus (group of interconnected vessels) collect venous venous drainage of the last portion of the bowel and perineum to bring the blood into the deep veins and then to the heart.
During pregnancy, varicose veins and all (the hemorrhoid is), it tends to bulge, this is done because there is a weakness characteristic of the walls of these veins, a weakness of the surrounding tissues and which do not contain a mechanical factor that has do with the increased blood volume that handles mainly pregnant and pressure that makes the pregnant uterus on the pelvic vessels, causing a drag on the perineal venous territory.
What are the symptoms?
The main symptoms are bleeding during bowel movements, itching, burning or pain. Sometimes the swollen veins protruding from the anus and can be the size of a grape.
Tips for getting pregnant
What you have to do and you know it, but there are some good tips on how and when they can help you get pregnant faster.Yourself that you can detect cervical mucus. Two or three days before ovulation, the flow is abundant, transparent and a thread (similar to egg white).
Balance during pregnancy
I’m sure that with all the physical changes that occur with pregnancy, many women feel insecure with your body and wonder how you can continue to maintain the balance. But not to worry. There are differences between the spines of men and women that allow the latter to achieve the necessary balance when in the state.
As the belly grows, the center of gravity of the pregnant woman’s body moves forward. To counteract this, the female spine is designed to arch more, because the curvature is composed of three vertebrae instead of two as in the case of men, and besides, their joints are longer.
Obviously it’s a bit risky for a woman with spine problems, such as lordosis, scoliosis, kyphosis, arthritis, osteoarthritis or osteoporosis (also occurs before menopause), etc., bear a pregnancy. In such cases it is recommended that you save all the rest possible toward the second trimester to avoid any accidents.
On the heels, most obstetricians recommend that if you are accustomed to them and not cause any trouble, you can continue using them. But keep in mind all the changes in the positions that the body is experiencing during these 9 months, plus the tendency of the lower extremities to swell.
Although the body of the pregnant woman to make some accommodations for her to keep moving calmly, take into account that since the first 3 months of pregnancy until six months after birth (time taken by ligaments and muscles to return to its place) the brain has to adjust to this new provision of the body, which increases the risk of an accident.
Among the precautions that every pregnant woman should take are:
* Avoid bending over to pick things up off the floor.
* Climbing on chairs, stools, ladders to reach anything.
* Be especially careful when walking on wet soil by rain, cleaning, etc.. And when walking on unstable ground such as rocks or unsettled land.
* Double carefully when bathing. The tiles are a very dangerous trap. Best if you can put little flat rubber to prevent slipping or install a safety bar which can help.
* Avoid loading weight (although it seems light).
* Take special care when going downstairs. (the highest percentage of falls during pregnancy is due to this.)
Smoking during pregnancy
Can I smoke while pregnant?
Smoking is absolutely contraindicated during pregnancy.
If you are trying to conceive would be good to quit as soon as possible, or if in your case, you got pregnant unexpectedly and sustained smoking is good for your baby to give up this habit in the very moment you learned you were going to be a mom.
Maternal consumption of snuff can lead to important implications and complications to the baby.
During pregnancy:
• Perinatal mortality: is higher in infants of smokers. It suggests a direct relationship to the level of consumption of snuff: the greater the consumption the greater risk.
• fetal weight at birth: babies born underweight which means that probably their lungs are fully developed and must use the first few days on a ventilator.
• Complications during pregnancy such as placenta previa, ectopic pregnancy, vaginal bleeding and preterm delivery.
After birth:
• Breastfeeding: it is proven that nicotine passes into breast milk.
• Sudden death: the children of parents who smoke are at greater risk. No one should smoke in the home, car or wherever you are baby.
• Respiratory diseases of childhood: the children of mothers who smoke tend to have more respiratory infections and asthma.