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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 »
Premature Babies
When the baby is born prematurely need special medical care. Can be monitored in a particular sector of motherhood, or even being hospitalized in a pediatric service. When the child is premature or ill there is another solution: The neonatal units.
It is considered premature baby who was born before 37 weeks gestation. As a consequence, their bodies and core functions have not reached maturity. The premature baby will need to develop within the incubator in the first place if born before the end of the eighth month, if less than 2.5 kilos, if you are malnourished, if you have trouble breathing or have had a difficult birth. In any case, it will be kept under close surveillance by the medical team. Read the rest of this entry »
Pregnancy After 40
The participation of females in professional life has led women to develop increasingly in various occupations: politics, medicine, law, etc., But all this at what cost to extend the maternity leave?
There is no reason to question the right of every woman to perform professionally, more so in the competitive world of today, where both men and women should show their talents to survive a shrinking market consumerism.
Strange Dreams During Pregnancy
Dreaming is completely natural, they say we dream if we sleep, but not always remember our dreams.
When you are pregnant also dreams, and indeed there are some recurring dreams often repeated in women, so dig a little about dreams.
There are several factors contributing to dream, rising emotions, sleep deprivation, and altered levels of hormones, so it is normal to have weird dreams during pregnancy.
Month 4: Excess
You begin to be properly installed in your pregnancy, it becomes more and more comfortable. Let us guide you calmly listen to your body.
Side Baby: The time for finishing
For the rapid upheaval of the first three months, followed a long period finishes. The fetus is improving, his face is affirmed, in a word it is humane. The fetal head is recovering and seems smaller. Members stretch, legs are now longer than the arm. The liver works. The fetal skin is covered with fine down called “lanugo.” The hands are well trained, hair and nails grow. He begins to suck his thumb or even a toe. At the 17th week of pregnancy, the fetus is about 15 cm and weighs 200 g.
Side Mom: Time of 1st shots
Some of you feel the first kicks of the baby. Your uterus grows, it is now the size of a melon, where sensations of stretch in the groin. Your belly was well rounded and your pregnancy begins to show.
Tip: Constipation
Many pregnant women suffer from constipation. To avoid this, use a diet rich in fiber (prunes, greens …). The morning fasting, drink a full glass of water and continue to drink during the day at least 1.5 liters of water rich in magnesium. Above’re exercising. Nothing better than walking to avoid this.
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.