Posts Tagged ‘pregnant women’
Bathing suits for pregnant women
Pregnancy is a beautiful stage, and although we suffered major physical changes, and are a little larger than normal, we can still look hermosas.Este is a fundamental aspect to keep our morale high and there is no possibility of depression, which can greatly affect the little boy in us.
Nutritional Advice for Pregnant Women
Good nutrition during the gestation period is essential. Women should take care of what you eat as this will also affect the baby. It is important to follow a balanced diet, varied and healthy during these 9 months is essential to avoid anything that might come to represent a danger to both.
Therefore, when shopping, it is important to choose fresh foods. Avoid pre-cooked and when we cook, it is best to make Grilled, baked, steamed or boiled. As for fried or sautéed foods it is best to take them only if necessary. If they can avoid, the better.
It is best to avoid fatty meats and sausages, smoked and salted fish and spicy. In the case of healthy fats such as olive oil, it is preferable to eat it raw in salads, vegetables or toast.
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 »
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.
Breastfeeding
Buenos Aires health program launched a prevention campaign
Breastfeeding could save each year, the lives of some 1.3 million children a year, said the World Health Organization.
The activity worldwide, aims this year to reinforce the importance of breastfeeding to save lives in situations marked by natural disasters, wars or pandemics, such as influenza A H1N1.
“The immune system during pregnancy, is naturally suppressed, why women are more vulnerable to infections during this period,” said Flavia Ranieri, Provincial Program Coordinator Maternal and Child Health Ministry of Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, referring to pregnant women as a group at risk.
In this sense, Health Program recommends Aires “pregnant women to continue their monitoring of pregnancy and addressed, if possible, in the health center (CAPS) closest to your home.”
“From go to the hospital, pregnant women with febrile symptoms and can not wait to request priority attention,” reports the same health program.
Do not stop breastfeeding even when they have flu symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
Aspirin Reduces Risks of Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Aspirin reduces risks in pregnant women with antiphospholipid syndrome. Antiphospholipid syndrome birth rate was uneventful in women who took Aspirin ® as a preventive measure increased from 38% to 72%.
The administration of Aspirin ® significantly reduces the risk of complications in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, according to research conducted by Dr. Munoz Rodriguez, who has been promoted by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and the Institute of Biomedical Research August i Sunyer The study, whose findings are published in the journal Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, shows that Aspirin consumption lowers the chances of occurrence of venous or arterial thrombosis and abortions, usually related complications with this autoimmune condition.
Specifically, the uneventful birth rate rises from 38% to 72% in pregnant women taking Aspirin ® as a preventive measure.
Research conducted by Dr. Munoz Rodriguez team focused on one hundred patients with antiphospholipid syndrome who underwent a follow-up period of over four years. The specialists found that 91% of patients not treated with aspirin developed new thrombosis, while those who were given Aspirin ® that risk was reduced to 42%.
The long term treatment with anticoagulants was found to be even more effective: only 19% of subjects who received him were affected by new episodes of thrombosis. Aspirin was especially good effect in pregnant women undergoing prophylactic treatment with Aspirin ®.
Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disorder characterized by paintings of arterial and venous thrombosis, abortions, or thrombocytopenia in association with the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies. The syndrome is considered primary if not associated with other underlying disease and secondary if it is linked to other autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus.