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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Today Post::Pregalates comes to The Baby Bump Project
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So what does this mean?
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Today Post::Pregnancy signs,symptoms
Whether I am pregnant? The woman assuming pregnancy, before visit to the doctor who can precisely tell about the pregnancy beginning, attentively listens and looks narrowly at the organism. What first signs of pregnancy?
The very first and probable - a delay of arrival monthly if before the menstrual cycle was regular. Though at some women the bleeding can be observed, but it less intensive and quickly passes.
Before arrival monthly in time the woman can feel a pain, the spasms accompanied by a small, so-called bleeding. It is the earliest symptom of pregnancy. It is connected with planting of an embryo to a uterine wall approximately for 6-10 day after conception.
Some women mark such sign of pregnancy as occurrence of a hypersensibility and morbidity of a breast, and also mark pigmentation of nipples.
Pregnancy sign also is all the known toxicosis. He can find you, since second week of pregnancy, and usually passes to 12 weeks. It can carry different forms from an easy indisposition and a nausea before vomiting wearisome and dehydrating an organism.
On early terms many women complain of headache and migraine occurrence that is connected with change of level of hormones in an organism of the pregnant woman.
Sign of pregnancy from nervous system are the appeared irritability, tearfulness, isolation.
Some mark an aggravation of sense of smell, occurrence of predilection to sour and salty, sharp increase in appetite, a symptom shown throughout all pregnancy.
Also from first weeks of pregnancy there can be such symptom as frequent desires to urine-emission That is connected with increase in the sizes of a uterus and its pressure upon a bladder.
Signs of pregnancy and their degree of expressiveness are shown at women differently. It depends on specific features of each woman. Early diagnosing is complicated and consequently, that pregnancy signs in early term are similar to signs coming nearer menstruations. Therefore at display above the listed signs it is necessary to make the test for pregnancy and to address to the doctor.
1-Absence next menstruations
2-Nausea, sometimes vomiting in the mornings.
3-Speeded up to urine-emission.
4-Pressure of mammary glands.
5-The raised appetite.
6-Undue fatigability.
7-Temperature.
Pregnancy signs
pregnancy symptoms
Today Post::1st week of pregnancy
More often the woman becomes pregnant in the middle of a menstrual cycle, for 12-14th day from the beginning of last menstruations. However it is considered to be a reference point of ten months, or forty weeks of pregnancy the beginning of last menstruations. Therefore we will start to speak about features of development of a fruit from third week of pregnancy, that is after the conception moment.
The woman
At this stage the central nervous system of the woman actively reconstructs a hormonal background gradually to prepare one of three hundred thousand eggs for fertilisation. We name the given week of the first as the prototype of the future child right now is formed. Already on the first week of pregnancy (in an ideal - 3-4 months prior to planned pregnancy) for the woman the complex of preventive actions for improvement of conditions for development of sexual cages and a germ should be actual. In the woman there is an origin of a new life, and the measures accepted on preservation of its health, now, as never, are important. If you have not made it earlier, begin right now.
Recommendations of experts:
1. It is necessary to refuse alcohol and nicotine. To exclude passive smoking - the woman it is not recommended to be in a premise with smoking people.
2. Any medicine appointed the doctor, it is necessary to discuss with it about influence of this medicine on eggs and a germ. To accept medical products without appointment of the doctor it is not recommended. The exhaustive information on influence of a medicine on a fruit can be received, having addressed in mediko-genetic consultation.
3. Try to exclude radiological researches, especially stomach and basin areas.
4. The woman is recommended to accept daily a multivitamin preparation for pregnant women. Such preparation should contain not less than 0,4 mg of folic acid - this vitamin accepted for three months prior to conception and first 12 weeks of pregnancy, saves a fruit from set of congenital defects.
5. Stay of the woman in populous places increase probability of its infection with infectious diseases. These infections are frequently dangerous to a fruit. If someone from house is ill do not regret in an onions and garlic diet. Your problem - to preserve the health, not supposing infection with infectious diseases.
6. Avoid stresses. Your psychological health is not less important. Try to receive more than positive emotions.
7. Analyse a sort your professional (or educational) activity about harm for a fruit (radiation, electromagnetic influences, contact to chemicals).
8. It is not recommended to get pets in pregnancy. If you already have houses a dog or a cat, it is desirable to survey your favourite at the veterinary surgeon. Be convinced, that at your friend in time and all inoculations are correctly made.
9. Limit the use of strong coffee and tea. Try not to abuse chocolate and pepsi.
10. It is recommended to visit the doctor even if health does not disturb you at present. At careful studying of your anamnesis there can be disputable moments for which specification medical examination will be offered to you. Believe, it will not be superfluous. Try to visit the doctor-genetics (if you at him were not earlier).
Data ten councils are actual during all period of pregnancy. You two - two organisms and two persons. However to care of yours health, follows not twice more, the attention to the health should be A HUNDRED TIMES more than before!
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Today Post::pregnancy symptoms and weeks of pregnancy
On the third week of pregnancy after conception the nervous system of the new person is pawned, starts to work pregnancy symptoms. At this time the expert in ultrasonic diagnostics sees, how heart fights, and can judge on palpitation a germ condition.
The period of a bookmark of all internal bodies (basically from the third pregnancy till the sixth weeks) is considered the second critical period of development pregnancy symptoms.
On the fourth week of pregnancy the germ quickly grows, its size increases approximately three times. There is a bookmark of internal bodies: lungs, a stomach, a liver, a pancreas, glands. There are rudiments of eyes and ears. Placenta formation begins.
The fifth week is noted by intensive growth of a brain, development of bronchial tubes and lungs. Kidneys, a rectum, a bladder are pawned. By a weekend the top finiteness becomes lopato-shaped, and bottom - lasto-shaped. The length of a germ reaches 6 mm.
On the sixth week of pregnancy the person and fingers of hands is formed. Formation of an external ear and an eyeball begins. Intensively grows pregnancy symptoms, rudiments of its departments are formed. Genitals are formed.
On the seventh week of pregnancy the top and bottom finitenesses are formed, the child freely floats in nearby-plodnoj liquid, it can strike a leg, move a head. Its length makes nearby 2 see If it continued to grow as quickly as on the second month of a pre-natal life at a birth its weight would make 14 tons, that is it would be equaled to weight of two big elephants!
The nine-week germ to the full becomes the small little man. He sucks a finger, can seize a hand a subject, feels a pain. The length of a fruit makes nearby 6 see
PREGNANCY SYMPTOMS
In eleven-twelve weeks of pregnancy the child reacts to light, heat, noise, a touch. It is still so small, that could stand on a little finger of mother, its length hardly reaches 8 sm, nevertheless, it has eyelids, nails, it is definitively generated also all systems of bodies of the child have started to work. According to ultrasonic it is possible to define a sex of a child.
The third-twelfth weeks of pregnancy - the period of special sensitivity of a germ to medical products, and also to a virus. Last, getting to a germ, breaks formation of heart, bodies of sight and hearing, a brain. Alcohol also can lead to heavy infringements of development of a fruit.
Smoking and narcosis reception lead to oxygen starvation of a germ that is fraught with risk of an abortion or a birth of the baby with the lowered weight.
Since fifteenth-sixteenth week of pregnancy mother can feel pregnancy symptoms. (Term of the first movement of a fruit fixed by mother is very individual. It is considered, that giving birth women feel movements of the child earlier.) Physiologically fruit movements are connected with reduction of muscles-razgibatelej. Their frequency increases at physical activities of mother. The frequent or strengthened movements can specify on pregnancy symptoms. The period of the most intensive movement of the child begins from 20th week when it weighs already nearby 350 g at growth of 25 sm, and proceeds till 30-32nd week. In process of growth of the kid of space in a uterus for its movements remains ever less. In 32 weeks the child weighs about 1,8 kg, has length 40-42 It see still can turn over, but soon occupies correct position for sorts - a head downwards.
From twelfth week of pregnancy of pregnancy already existing bodies of the child increase in sizes, grow, thus continuing to develop - after all the child is yet capable to survive out of an organism of mother. Representations about viability, this border between a life and death of prematurely born child, have strongly changed lately, having come nearer to 20th week of development (not so long ago this border made 30 weeks, then 28 and 25). The case when premature birth has occurred on 19 week of the pregnancy is known, the born girl weighed only 510 grammes. It has survived, however within many weeks was in the special conditions supporting breath, a food and a body temperature.
By fourth month (the sixteenth week of pregnancy) the placenta (a children’s place) is formed. It is similar to a flat cake in diameter about 18 sm and in the thickness 3 see Thanks to a considerable quantity of fibers, the placenta surface reaches 6 ΠΌ2. The placenta connects the child with a parent organism, provides an intensive exchange between blood of mother and a fruit. In normal conditions blood of mother and a fruit never mixes up: the placenta creates between them an original barrier. So, from mother to a fruit passes oxygen, and carbonic gas in the opposite direction arrives. If for any reasons from an exchange half of placenta is switched off, the fruit perishes from oxygen starvation. Through a placenta there pass water, glucose, salts, amino acids, hormones and vitamins. Antibodies of mother pass through a placenta and protect a fruit and just born child from infections. Permeability of a placenta is not only the blessing - it conceals in herself and t! he big danger, after all the placenta is vulnerable for toxins (including alcohol and drugs), viruses and the majority of medical products, and at damage can “pass” to a fruit and the microorganisms which are in blood of mother.
In second half of pregnancy sensitivity of a fruit to pregnancy symptoms decreases. However last weeks a pre-natal life of a fruit carry to the third critical period just because the placenta already stops the growth, and the fruit considerably adds in weight. Any complications of a current of pregnancy during this period can be reflected in end of formation of some bodies. On all extent of pregnancy the child is protected from mechanical damages and is in the special water environment - in nearby-plodnyh waters. About-plodnye water fill a bag. The Amniotichesky liquid contains a quantity of the cages which are torn away from a germ. Therefore the analysis of the liquid received by a special puncture, allows doctors to investigate genetic features of a fruit and to reveal at it chromosomal anomalies. Amnimon it is broken off at sorts when waters depart. Known expression “was born under a lucky star” specifies in heavy complication in sorts when the child is bo! rn, stuck round by a cover. Earlier it quite often came to an end with destruction of the child (because of shortage pregnancy symptoms), therefore the person who has survived in such situation, considered successful.
On the fifth - the sixth month (20-28 week of pregnancy) the body of the child covers a germinal down. These gentle thin hairs drop out approximately one month prior to a birth, except for hair of a head, eyebrows, eyelashes. The child quickly grows, actively moves. First-born greasing - the white zhiro-like substance protecting the child in sorts is formed. A skin of the child red and wrinkled - because of a lack under it of a fatty fabric.
The seventh month (28-31 week of pregnancy) differs that at the kid the dream and wakefulness rhythm is established. He can wake up in the mornings together with mum and welcome its rough enough pushes. It is considered, what exactly from seventh month the child takes part in an emotional life of mother. By the end of the seventh - to the beginning of the eighth month the child starts to hear and see. Under a skin it is formed fatty fibra. The child swallows nearby-plodnuju a liquid, at times even starts to hiccup. Children who were born on the seventh month of pregnancy, survive more often.
On the eighth month (32-35 week of pregnancy) the kid adds in weight and growth; fatty fibra under a skin becomes more, the child “is approximated” to the child already rather small in a uterus, its movements are limited. It stops to “spin” and occupies position by a head downwards, preparing to a birth.
The ninth month of pregnancy (36-40 week of pregnancy) - time of definitive preparation for a birth. The head of the kid nestles on an input in a small basin. In intestines of the child the primary dust accumulates. In lungs the special substance is formed - which does not allow to lungs to be fallen down, - the kid is ready to make the first breath. By the end of the ninth month the skull has the greatest circle in comparison with other parts of a body, therefore on a skull circle define conformity of the sizes of the child and a basin of mother. It is important at the decision of a question on necessity pregnancy symptoms. Usually in 280 days after conception (40 weeks) there comes childbirth. Similar, what exactly the child «makes the decision» that is time to be born. It is ready to do a difficult way through patrimonial ways. Now the child and mother - not a single whole as it was within previous nine months. The child is capable to survive out of its organism, but! a lot of time that will learn to live independently still is required to it.
Practically all life-support systems of the child will pass a stage pregnancy symptoms. So, the system of protection of an organism during the first half a year of a life uses the antibodies received with parent milk, and only by one and a half years the immune system starts to work «in full force». Deducing by kidneys of salts and products of an albuminous exchange becomes effective by the end of the first year of a life of the child, that is why so it is important to supervise quantity of salt and fiber in food of the baby. Liver function is definitively formed by two years. Formation of nervous system - one of the slowest processes in an organism. For example, intensive development of a bark of a brain comes to the end by seven years. The sexual system ripens on the average by 15 years. And by 25 years skeleton growth stops.
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Today Post::The first early pregnancy symptoms
The first early pregnancy symptoms
How to define, are you pregnant or not? We will suppose, for you delay of next menstruation. A day passes, two, week - the menstrual bleeding is not present. And you feel early pregnancy symptoms, sucklings glands seem growings heavy. Or a superfluous somnolence appears, usual actions of surrounding cause an irritation, and some smells simply nevynosimy. Not eliminated, that an appetite rose for you, and products disappear from a refrigerator with an unusual quickness and in strange combinations. Thus slyuni flow yet and, nightly hikes became more frequent in a rest room, and in the day-time long walks are problematic from frequent urges on urination.
All these subjective feelings can be present at the offensive of pregnancy symptoms. But can absent. It is, that a woman marks the delay of menstruation without some other changes in a feel.
There are simple and accessible methods of clearing up of pregnancy symptoms. Certainly, 100 % guarantees are given by not a single method, and a final conclusion can be got only after examination of doctor and additional inspection. But in the first 10-12 days of delay of menstruation even in medical establishment will not be able to give an exact answer about the presence of pregnancy.
If menstruation did not come in the expected day, since a next morning you can take temperature in a rectum. An ordinary medical thermometer is entered in a rectum right after awakening. It is thus impossible to get up from a bed, it is therefore recommended from an evening to put a thermometer near a bed. Nightly sleep must be no less than 6 hours. A thermometer is entered for a muscle, squeezing the zadneprokhodnoe opening, on a depth 2 see on 5-7 minutes, extracted whereupon. Fix the testimonies of thermometer. Procedure is conducted daily during 7-10 days. If a temperature in a rectum stably exceeds 37°c, it testifies in behalf on possible pregnancy.
At the delay of menstruation on three days and it is more possible to take advantage of test for early diagnostics of pregnancy (most tests, present today on sale, determine the presence of pregnancy in the first day of delay). He is simple in the use and reliable enough. Exactness of answer will be higher, if to conduct researches 2-3 times. In spite of external distinctions of tests, in basis a chemical reaction lies on a specific hormone (khorionicheskiy gonadotropin - KHG) which begins to be produced in the organism of woman during pregnancy, and products of its disintegration. The hormone and disintegration products are allocated with urine. With them the chemical reactant by which the strip or a test plate is impregnated also enters interaction. Be convinced that working life of the test has not expired. For research it is better to take a morning portion of urine: after a night dream concentration of a hormone and products of its disintegration raises. Accordingly,! the probability of raises also that the reactant will find out these hormones. If you do not trust tests, it is possible to hand over urine on definition of the quantitative maintenance hormones. However, such analysis is spent far not in all medical-diagnostic centres.
But here 3-4 weeks passed, you made sure, that temperature in a rectum steadily higher 37 ° C, a test on pregnancy twice gave a positive result. Your feel is wonderful thus, subjective disorders are not present, you feel the wave of forces, emotional getting up. Is it needed to go to womanish consultation? Stands. Above all things - to make sure of that pregnancy is an uterus, that a fruit egg implantirovalos’ in the cavity of uterus.
The point is that an impregnation takes place out of cavity of uterus, and the impregnated ovule must get to the place of implantacii on an uterine pipe. And if on the way of fruit egg there are obstacles as narrowing in an uterine pipe or pipe coal of uterus or impregnated ovule too long moves up on an uterine pipe, and a fruit egg already is too great for the road clearance of uterine pipe, it does not get in the cavity of uterus. There is ektopicheskaya, or extra-uterine, pregnancy. It should be remembered that extra-uterine pregnancy on early terms gives exactly such high-quality reactions, what uterus: they are universal for pregnancy in general.
At examination vrach-ginekolog will see indirect pregnancy symptoms: venous plethora of outward privy parts, change of colouring the mucous membrane of vagina and neck of uterus: it acquires a sinyushnyy (cianotichnyy) tint. At two-handed research softening influence of isthmus is marked (the place of connection of body of uterus and neck of uterus is so named). The self body of uterus at pregnancy is large, soft, can be asymmetric due to vybukhaniya in the place of introduction of fruit egg. Pal’piruyutsya necessarily, that felt, appendages of uterus: uterine pipes and ovaries on either side. It is, that even at correctly developing uterine pregnancy discover education in the place of projection of appendages of uterus. It can be yellow body of pregnancy or cyst of yellow body in one of ovaries. Such pregnancy symptoms obratimy, that the normal structure of ovary in time is restored. But educations can appear and pathological.! That it to find out, it is necessary to resort to the additional methods of research. Most simple, accessible and safe for a health the ULTRASONIC of organs of small pelvis is considered. Depending on the choice of research (transabdominal’no, I.e. through a front abdominal wall, or transvaginal’no) method, since 2,5-3 weeks of pregnancy can be got information about the presence of pregnancy and its localisation.
To the term of pregnancy 4-5 weeks the modern level of development of medicine allows not only to diagnose presence of pregnancy but also give the prognosis of its further development (at transabdominal’nom research). Besides ULTRASONIC, an expectant mother can on this term pass a test inspection, exposing the risk of development of prenatal’nykh (arising up vnutriutrobno) diseases for a child, risk of infecting of fruit, appearances of genetic changes and different anomalies of development. It will not demand some special expenses of forces or time from you. For research blood serves as material from the finger of expectant mother. If you want to know half your child to 12 weeks of pregnancy, it is possible to appeal to the city laboratory of prenatal’noy diagnostics.
But for you all fine. A fruit egg is in an uterus, an embryo develops correctly. On the screen of monitor you saw the future child, which while anymore look like a berry, surrounded a brilliant shell. We congratulate!
Today Post::Pregnancy symptoms on early term?
Pregnancy symptoms on early term?
How to define pregnancy? Pregnancy first signs? Pregnancy symptoms on early term?
We will suppose, for you delay of next menstruation. A day passes, two, week - the menstruation bleeding is not present. And you feel nausea at mornings, sucklings glands seem growings heavy. Or a superfluous somnolence, usual actions of surrounding cause an irritation, appears, and some smells simply nevynosimy. Not eliminated, that an appetite rose for you, and products disappear from a refrigerator with an unusual quickness and in strange combinations. Thus slyuni flow yet and, nightly hikes became more frequent in a rest room, and in the day-time long walks are problematic from frequent urges on moche-ispuskanie.
All these subjective sensations can be present at pregnancy approach. But can and be absent. Happens, that the woman marks a delay menstruation without any other changes in state of health. There are situations and absolutely opposite - pregnancy is present, but menstruation a bleeding, let and in smaller volume, comes to the put term.
There are simple and accessible ways of clearing of a situation. It is not necessary to postpone visiting of the gynecologist and corresponding inspection, especially when probable pregnancy - undesirable. Very often girls try to find any explanations to absence menstruation in the put term - “I still the virgin”, “it was my first contact”, “we in it is engaged seldom”, “the partner supervises itself”, “I use contraception means”, “at me recently was menstruation and sex in safe day”, etc. Pregnancy has been excluded only in case of full absence of any forms of sexual affinity, contraception means only reduce risk of undesirable pregnancy to a minimum, but cannot exclude it completely!
It is not necessary to guess - there are simple ways of diagnostics of pregnancy, including in house conditions. Certainly, 100 % of a guarantee are not given by any technique, and the definitive conclusion can be received only after survey of the doctor and additional inspection.
There is a doctor at examination - a gynaecologist will see indirect Pregnancy symptoms: venous polno-blood of outward privy parts, change of colouring the mucous membrane of vagina and neck of uterus: it acquires a sinyushnyy tint. At two-handed research softening influence of isthmus is marked (the place of connection of body of uterus and neck of uterus is so named). The self body of uterus at pregnancy is large, soft, can be asymmetric due to vybukhaniya in the place of introduction egg fruit. Pal’piruyutsya necessarily, that felt, appendages of uterus: uterine pipes and ovaries on either side.
It is, that even at correctly developing uterine pregnancy discover education in the place of projection of appendages of uterus. It can be yellow body of pregnancy or cyst of yellow body in one of ovaries. Such changes of obratimy, that the normal structure of ovary in time is restored. But educations can appear and pathological, for example, extra-uterine pregnancy. That it to find out, it is necessary to resort to the additional methods of research (ULTRASONIC).
Pregnancy symptoms
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Today Post::pregnancy symptoms month after a month
To the beginning of the second trimester the circle of your waist will increase a little. On the fourth month of pregnancy accoucheurs can already define pregnancy term on standing height pregnancy symptoms - its uppermost part which by this time is probed through a forward belly wall. By 16 weeks the uterus bottom settles down approximately in the middle between a forehead and a navel.
On this term the size of a fruit and quantity pregnancy symptoms are that, that the child can freely move in a uterus. Though absolutely still the tiny embryo starts to move already on ! the second month of a life, you can feel for the first time fruit movement only since 15 - 16th weeks of pregnancy. Term when you can feel for the first time movements of the kid, depends on features of your pregnancy. It is considered, that already giving birth women feel for the first time pregnancy symptoms a little before the pregnant women, passing this fascinating way for the first time. However be not frightened, if on the fourth month of a life the kid while in any way does not let to you about itself know: the period of the most intensive fruit movement begins approximately from 20th week at giving birth and from 18th week - at repeatedly-rodjashchih. Activity of the child depends on its state of health, from that, the kid sleeps or is awake, and also from mood of future mum and other events occurring at this moment.
pregnancy symptoms and your state of health
With approach of the fourth month of pregnancy your state of health, most likely, will improve: slackness and a nausea will disappear, the risk of spontaneous interruption of pregnancy will decrease.
Continue to watch the weight, but do not forget that a food should be high-grade. In the second trimester of pregnancy often enough develops pregnancy symptoms. You can “help” the organism, having begun or having continued reception of polyvitamins for pregnant women (especially in winter and spring months) and-or preparations of iron, folic acid. Certainly, before to begin reception of any medicines, including vitamins, it is necessary to consult to the doctor.
With increase in term of pregnancy at you can appear pregnancy symptoms. To solve this problem the balanced diet with the high maintenance fibras (discuss it with your attending physician or the dietician) will help.
At many pregnant women the condition of veins changes, especially at hereditary predisposition to illness. These changes can be shown differently - from cosmetic defects in the form of dark blue “threads” of the expanded veins on a skin to weight, pains in feet and other unpleasant sensations. Therefore necessarily take care of preventive maintenance pregnancy symptoms: try to support optimum for your term of pregnancy weight (excess weight can lead to illness strengthening); in lying position try to raise feet over body level (put under them a dense pillow to cause blood outflow); carry special supporting stockings; do not forget about daily walks (they in general render beneficial influence on state of health of future mum and the kid).
At this stage reorganisation of all system of blood circulation proceeds, the volume of circulating blood essentially increases. In connection with increase in volume of blood and increase of the maintenance of hormones, at the woman can occur occasionally pregnancy symptoms which usually are not an occasion to anxiety.
At hereditary predisposition to increase of arterial pressure it is necessary to supervise its level regularly.
But, despite possible complexities, as a whole the fourth month of pregnancy usually proceeds favorably. Enjoy this respite - after all the excitements connected with sorts, still it is far, and you feel yourselves much better, than in the pregnancy beginning. The fourth month of pregnancy - safe enough in many respects the period, and rather timely will think about pregnancy symptoms.
The fourth month of pre-natal development
By the end of 16th week of pregnancy the length of a fruit reaches 16 sm, and weight of a body - about 200 During this period “tadpole” (so it is tenderly possible to name the child of that his head seems is disproportionate big concerning a trunk) gradually becomes more and more similar to the newborn kid. It learns to own handles and legs, starts to swallow of waters surrounding it, with pleasure sucks a finger. During this period of a cage of a brain share with the maximum speed, both hemispheres are already generated, there are furrows and crinkles - the brain bark is formed. Almost all bodies more or less accurately differ at pregnancy symptoms, handles and legs are visible, it is possible even to count fingers for them. The child makes “respiratory” movements by a thorax, its heart is reduced almost with the same frequency, as at newborns, kidneys and bodies of a digestive path start to functio! n. At a fruit the skeleton is gradually formed. At this stage begins possible to define group of blood and a Rhesus factor of the child. Under certain conditions on this term of pregnancy you can already learn, for whom you wait - the boy or the girl.
Diagnostics of developmental anomalies of a fruit on the fourth month of pregnancy
Four months of pregnancy is optimum time of carrying out of ultrasonic research for an exception of rough infringements at a fruit as during this period as a whole all bodies of a germ are already generated also their structure it is possible to “see” at ultrasonic - the most widespread, economic and informative method of individual diagnostics. This research usually allows to reveal defect available for a fruit. In case of developmental anomalies of nervous system - most frequent of similar infringements - reaches 95 - 100 %. The syndrome of Down comes to light by means of ultrasonic, according to various sources, from 40 to 80 % of cases.
Other method of diagnostics extended all over the world pregnancy symptoms is level definition in whey of blood of the pregnant woman of their biochemical markers: an alpha-fetoproteina, the threefold test. In practice in our country at the pregnant woman only one usually is checked - these two indicators. This research is spent usually since 15 - 18 weeks of pregnancy. Change of quantity an alpha-fetoproteina occurs at anomalies of development of nervous system, illness of Down and some other conditions. At an adverse current of pregnancy and at a number of pathological conditions of a fruit in whey of blood of the pregnant woman the maintenance hormones changes.
Result of the threefold test and furthermore change only one indicator cannot serve as a definitive method of diagnostics of presence at a fruit of any developmental anomaly. Definition pregnancy symptoms on the fourth month of pregnancy, as well as ultrasonic, allows to reveal group of the pregnant women requiring further, deeper antenatal diagnostics of developmental anomalies. It is not excluded, that such diagnostics will demand doctors and special equipment; among such methods, for example, reception about-plodnyh waters, reception of blood from vessels of an umbilical cord by its pre-natal puncture with the subsequent definition of a genetic material of a fruit. These techniques assuming intrusion in an organism (in this case in a uterus cavity), are not completely safe, therefore are spent only in the presence of serious indications.
Purposeful antenatal diagnostics of a condition of a fruit is recommended and in situations when in a family there were cases of a chromosomal pathology, hereditary illnesses of a metabolism and also when the woman shortly before approach of pregnancy or in the first trimester was exposed to influence of any adverse factors (to them the radioactive irradiation, some medical products) concern, for example, pregnancy symptoms.
In case of revealing pregnancy symptoms tactics of the further conducting pregnancy is defined by a consultation into which enter the accoucheur-gynecologist, the doctor of ultrasonic diagnostics, sometimes - and other experts. But, what consultation decision was, it cannot be realised without opinion of the woman.
Today Post::All known pregnancy symptoms
All known pregnancy symptoms
If it is the young girl who only has begun a sexual life, for it pregnancy happens undesirable is more often. And very often panic fear from month to month does its sexual life strained. How many at me was familiar girls in a similar condition of doubt. «And if mum learns?» «And if will be late?» «And if I now make abortion suddenly there will be no children?». And on what only feats were gone by my acquaintances to “get rid” of the child, still, being up to the end not assured that it actually is. Both weight! s lifted also potassium permanganate drank and stuck to itself intravenously so-called «a hot prick». All came to an end, or menstruation, or rise in temperature and inevitable operative intervention, or a birth of the child. Not to do similar nonsenses in this article we will disassemble, what pregnancy symptoms really take place to be and in what cases the woman can suspect, that there can come pregnancy.
The skilled women, already gone through this condition is literally from first days of conception, not having waited yet planned day menstruation, suspect at itself pregnancy. Not because they had sex in «dangerous days», and on the internal sensations. It not necessarily nausea and vomiting. This inexplicable condition, clear only to the woman. But this pregnancy symptom it is possible to name faster an exception, than a rule.
pregnancy symptom it is possible to name one of the most known indirect. That is they are, but on them it is impossible to do definitive conclusions.
1. Absence menstruation. (But after all it can be and a sign of some diseases).
2. The nipple circle to become more dark. The big sexual lips become more dark also. (The woman can so to seem, as it “winds” herself).
3. The breast to become more elastic, increases in sizes, someone has a feeling of a pain or pressure.
4. A nausea, vomiting, intolerance of food. (Besides these signs can be and a consequence of other conditions of an organism).
5. Predilection for certain food. Predilection, huge desire to eat something (cucumbers salty etc.). Probably even predilection for food absolutely inedible - to a chalk, for example.
6. Intolerance of certain smells and change of tactile sensations. (A smell of perfume, a cream for footwear, disgust for make-up drawing).
7. Well and certainly there are changes in behaviour - nervousness, whims, ! tearfulness.
8. Indications of the test for pregnancy.
9. Indications of the test for ultrasonic.
All these pregnancy symptoms can be shown and in the event that the woman subconsciously to prepare for pregnancy. To desirable or not, - not so it is important. As speak men: «If the woman has hammered to itself into the head certain thought consequences can be the most different». But after all all these pregnancy symptoms can be and symptoms of certain diseases, instead of necessarily pregnancy. It can be gynecologic diseases, oncological, illnesses of internal bodies.
As to the test for pregnancy its indications can be trusted only for 80-90 percent! And one more important point rather menstruation a cycle.
At some women in the first months of pregnancy menstruation comes, as it is necessary, - in time. There was at me an acquaintance, the woman in years and with already adult children. To it just also there was similar “incident”. Thought, that the beginnings simply to add in weight and only on the fifth month of pregnancy all has risen on the places. To recede was late, - it was necessary to give birth. (Today I am convinced, that it was only to the best though could be on the contrary). Similar examples only confirm once again what to be protected it is necessary, as it is necessary, and not to think that will carry by.
So-called percentage pregnancy symptoms the gynecologist can “see” hundred only. Their woman cannot independently define, see, distinguish. So as soon as you “have suspected” at yourselves pregnancy - address to the expert.
If one “are careful” of pregnancy and there and then pay attention to the first changes of an organism others opposite, - try to find an explanation or consolations for themselves. Something like: «it was my first contact», «we in it is engaged seldom», «I use contraception means», «at me recently was menstruation, and sex was in safe day». But pregnancy can be excluded only in case of full absence of sexual affinity, contraception means only reduce risk of undesirable pregnancy to a minimum, but cannot exclude it completely.
The most important thing if you have suspected at yourselves pregnancy - not to be nervous, “not wind” yourself, not to please ahead of time potentially the father, and not to do at all only from pregnancy symptoms the important opening.
Today Post::New Perspective
“33 weeks, using a little "forced perspective" to show the enormity of the situation” says Jen.
Love it.
Today Post::Preparing to pregnancy symptoms.
Preparing to pregnancy symptoms.
In the ideal world we would be to plan in a condition a life in the smallest details. In valid in which there lives the majority of us, the best plans give way unforeseen pregnancy symptoms. We need to accept and derive only it the greatest benefit from this, that to us it is given. But in any circumstances your child has the right to be born the healthy. And to take care of it follows even before approach pregnancy symptoms. Here some councils to the future mums.
Be carefully surveyed. As you, and your husband should be surveyed at the therapist, it will help to reveal all pregnancy symptoms which should be corrected in advance.
Visit the stomatologist. Pass careful check of a teeth, make all necessary procedures, for example, a X-ray of a teeth, sealing, tooth and maxillary operations.
Pass inspection in connection with planned pregnancy. Address to the gynecologist for the purpose of revealing of potential risk which can appear in planned pregnancy. If your anamnesis or clinical inspection reveals pregnancy symptoms during pregnancy guardianship of the accoucheur (or the corresponding expert) will be necessary.
Inspection and (or) treatment of deviations which could complicate pregnancy (polyps, kist, good-quality tumours, thyroid gland hypofunction, an endometriosis, inflammations of uric ways) is necessary also. If you had earlier such problems with pregnancy as an abortion or premature birth, discuss with the doctor of a measure of prevention of repetition of these symptoms. Even if you are assured, that you do not have the illnesses transferred sexual by, consult about tests for a syphilis, a gonorrhoea, a clamidiosis and a herpes. Make the test for a HIV (a virus causing AIDS).
Other inspections which should be spent before conception: definition of level of haemoglobin (for anaemia revealing), the blood analysis on a Rhesus factor (to find out what Rhesus factor at you: positive or negative), the urine analysis (to reveal fiber or sugar presence), etc.
If you are sick of a diabetes, an asthma or any other chronic illness, receive the consent of the doctor to pregnancy and be convinced, that your condition under the control.
Start to observe for pregnancy symptoms. Possibility to become pregnant when you want, will be considerable above if you have sexual contacts during a favorable part of a cycle. Precisely knowing when you have become pregnant, you can establish approximate date of sorts is easier.
Make inoculations. You should be assured, that are steady against krasnuxas (or having transferred this illness, or by an inoculation), that you have an inoculation (time in 10 years becomes). If there are no inoculations from measles and you never it were ill or concern group of high risk of infection with a hepatitis virus, that, probably, now it is useful to get this stability. Inoculations are better for making three months prior to planned pregnancy.
If someone from you or close relatives has genetic frustration, address to genetics. (You should be surveyed about genetic illnesses). The previous gynecologic problems (such as two abortions, a birth of a dead fruit, long time of barreness or a birth of the child with defect), and also marriage with the cousin or other near relation-too can be an occasion to address for genetic council.
Improve the diet. It is necessary to receive enough folic acid lack of an organism of mother leads to defects of a spinal cord at children. It contains in grains of a rough grinding, green vegetables. Exclude from a diet poor-quality meal and the refined sugar. Enrich meal integral grain, products with the high maintenance of fiber and calcium. Limit caffeine consumption (coffee, strong tea, cola). If recently you were on a diet, provide, that to pregnancy the organism has restored pregnancy symptoms (it is possible to consult to the doctor).
Take vitamins and the mineral salts intended for pregnant women. Certain researches have shown, that additional consumption of vitamins before pregnancy and in the first months of pregnancy is necessary. However if you accept any other food additives, refuse from pregnancy symptoms as surplus of vitamins can appear risky.
Care of a figure, but be not overzealous. Physical exercises will increase elasticity and a stretching of muscles, i.e. Will prepare them for carrying and a birth of the child. However avoid an overstrain: excessive trainings can damage. Do not accept too hot and cold baths.
Do not subject itself to influence of chemicals. For maintenance of the maximum safety you should avoid harmful pregnancy symptoms. Avoid influence on an organism of toxins in housekeeping.
Limit consumption of medical products. Before to accept any medicines, necessarily consult with the doctor about their influence on pregnancy and fruit development. From pregnancy symptoms it is necessary to refuse at least for a month (and some from 3 till 6 months) prior to the beginning of attempts of conception of the child.
Both parents should limit consumption of alcohol and stop to smoke. It is proved, that cancerogenic substances of tobacco and alcohol negatively influence sexual cages as men, and women. Still the worst action on fruit development renders the use of drugs. If exists pregnancy symptoms, it is necessary to address for the help to corresponding experts.
Remember that health and good care of self during pregnancy will yield the fruits not only to your children, but also children of your children.
Today Post::Pregnancy symptoms the First trimester
Pregnancy symptoms the First trimester
The first trimester of pregnancy (as a rule, with 5 for 12 week) it is frequent (at 50-60 % of women) saddens such unpleasant condition, as pregnancy symptoms, or as it named earlier, a toxicosis (was considered, that egg allocates certain toxins which cause all unpleasant displays, but, despite persistent searches, these toxins and have not been found out). pregnancy symptoms - more competent name, it underlines, that this condition arises only during pregnancy.
For today there is no uniform theory of development pregnancy symptoms. On modern representation a certain role in this process infringements of regulation of internal bodies from nervous system, incompatibility of mother and a fruit and other factors play insufficiency of adaptable mechanisms in a female organism. Among displays early pregnancy symptoms we will note a nausea (usually in the mornings), vomiting, a sljuno-current (and also in very rare cases - dermatosis, shown by a skin itch, eczem, and a good-quality jaundice of pregnant women).
It is not necessary to believe, that these troubles are a natural component of the first trimester of pregnancy. Constant attacks of a nausea and furthermore vomiting exasperating you should become an occasion to consultation at the doctor. We will tell at once: only in 10 % of cases medical intervention and serious treatment is required to you. It is necessary at heavy degree pregnancy symptoms with unrestrained vomiting, sharp weight reduction, organism dehydration. In easy and sredne-heavy cases the aromatherapy, acupuncture, physiotherapy, psychotherapy try to resort to not medicinal methods of treatment, such, as herbal medicine.
Try to facilitate the condition, leaning on following simple recommendations.
Your food should be as much as possible various, consist mainly of easy-usvojaemyh products and to contain a considerable quantity of vitamins. You should watch enough of a drunk liquid (1,5 - 2 l, it it is desirable to include here alkaline mineral water). To have breakfast it is necessary, not getting up. It is better to refuse three meals a day, and to break the day diet into 6-8 small food intakes which need to be separated from drinks. At pregnancy symptoms frequent chewing (salty nutlets, crackers, dried fruits, etc. will approach) well helps. At a sljuno-current it is good to rinse a mouth infusion of a camomile, a sage, mint.
We from the bottom of the heart hope, that the troubles connected with the first months of pregnancy, will not prevent you to follow the accurate plan of the necessary actions presented in our traditional table.
Optimum term - 8 - 10 weeks of pregnancy (the end of February - March). At early pregnancy symptoms necessarily ask the doctor on what else inspections you need to pass (proceeding from your specific features), find out, whether consultation genetics is required to you.
If your work is not harmful, is not connected with excessive emotional and physical pressure, you can, at desire, play for time till that time while it is possible to hide a stomach (certainly, it depends on features of your figure, but, most likely, colleagues will notice increased tummy in April). If your work can is for whatever reasons adverse be reflected in a pregnancy current (if there are doubts, consult with the accoucheur-gynecologist observing you!), it is necessary for you to notify as soon as possible the heads on forthcoming changes and to demand transfer into other work
Do not forget to plan visiting of school for pregnant women - for this purpose it is considered the most suitable the second trimester of pregnancy. For you it is April, May, June. It is not necessary to postpone school visiting in "a long box" - time is required to you to put into practice the received knowledge. Besides, the warm spring sun, absence of ice in the street, easier and convenient clothes, and also recession of infectious diseases will make training at school pleasant and safe for your health.
The first trimester of your pregnancy is necessary on the middle of winter - the beginning of spring. Actual there is a preventive maintenance of infectious diseases as the fruit passes in the first trimester the major stages of the development - begins pregnancy symptoms and formation of all bodies and systems, and any influence of a virus can affect this process by the most adverse image.
The second trimester - spring - the beginning of summer. Soft spring weather will make this period of your pregnancy especially pleasant. However at the same time it is the period of flowering of many plants which can cause allergic reactions. If you are inclined to such seasonal allergies, consult to the doctor, what protivo-allergenic preparations to you can be accepted during pregnancy.
The middle of summer - the beginning of autumn. For you this time of preparation of an organism to pregnancy symptoms. Be especially attentive to recommendations about a food. Watch quantity of a drunk liquid - in summer heat your organism easily loses it, at the same time in the third trimester it is especially important to avoid water “overload”. If you are absolutely healthy, can (and should) to drink 1,5 l of a liquid a day. If you have signs of a late toxicosis (there are hypostases, arterial pressure raises), necessarily consult to the doctor.
The beginning of your pregnancy is necessary on a season which is traditionally considered dangerous on development of avitaminosises. For the kid on so early terms especially important enough of folic acid which basically contains in greens which even if meets on counters of shops, at this time, alas, not better quality. Therefore it is expedient, having consulted with the doctor, during this period to accept the polyvitamins containing folic acid, or simply preparation of folic acid.
Your diet necessarily should contain fiber enough, including animal, vitamins and microcells as during this period and till the end of pregnancy your kid actively grows. Watch enough pregnancy symptoms - it is necessary for growing bone system of the child, at a lack of calcium of your diet the kid “takes” it from your bones and a teeth. The same concerns and iron - even if at you normal level of haemoglobin, with iron (the complex of vitamins is necessary for pregnant wome! n) for you. The matter is that at this time in a fruit organism stocks of iron which be required to it in the first months of a life are created. It is actual and in III trimester.
The same recommendations, as in the second trimester, special attention give to an exception of the diet of potential allergens (to which, among other, all red vegetables and fruit concern) as at this time the immune system of a fruit is ready to answer them with development pregnancy symptoms. Last months before sorts the child actively types weight, therefore a fruit should receive from you enough of nutrients and at the same time you should not overeat. Besides, necessarily consult to the doctor concerning reception of polyvitamins: even if you did not accept them or have stopped reception, during active preparation of your organism to pregnancy symptoms additional sources of vitamins and microcells can be necessary for you.
Today Post::Birth behind bars
According to a recent report in the New York Times, there are still states that keep pregnant inmates shackled during labour and birth. In some cases, an inmates legs, wrists and even abdomen are chained, quite obviously making medical treatment difficult. Although the Federal Bureau of Prisons last fall called for an end to the practice except in cases where inmates are a danger to themselves or others, it is thought that some women are still shackled in spite of state regulations.
After birth, the treatment of new mothers is no better. Most prisons make no provisions for inmates to be with their newborns. Infants are typically taken away from the mother immediately and either sent to live with family members or placed in foster care. According to a 2000 report in Time, New York, Nebraska and Washington State are the only exceptions; prisons in these states have nurseries in which infants are allowed to live with their mothers for a year to 18 months. Understandably, it is debatable whether infants are better off living in prison at the most critical point in their little lives. There is a dearth of research regarding long-term psychological effects of prison life on children.
In New York, however, the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility opened the nation’s first prison nursery 100 years ago, and today its parenting program has had dramatic results. Only 10% of women who successfully completed the program returned to prison, in contrast to 52% of inmates overall.
There is some hope for pregnant inmates. There are a number of organisations across the US that try to organise volunteer doulas (traditional birth attendants) to help to empower pregnant inmates. The Peace Tree Prison Doulas serve incarcerated women in North Carolina penitentaries. They offer two main services to these women; each week they facilitate a pregnancy, labor and postpartum discussion group based on the womens’ interests and needs, as well as provide continuous birth doula support when inmates go into labor. After delivery, they provide continuous postpartum counseling and breastfeeding support.
How can we deny pregnant women their right to a safe birth?
Today Post::The secret is out
Has anyone else noticed that almost all of the Victoria’s Secret ‘Angels’ are preggers (except for Miranda Kerr)?
Clearly, parading around in your knickers improves your chances of conception.
Today Post::Mums of the month
The Rugby Breastfeeding Cafe, a Warwickshire-based support group where local mums can meet up to feed their babies and chat in peace, has found an innovative method for fundraising: a calendar featuring mums breastfeeding from all walks of life in order to ‘challenge views people might have about breastfeeding’. A recent article in the Telegraph describes the photos as ‘provocative’. Rosie Evans, 28, organised the calendar and says “It shows that you can be young, trendy and sexy and still be a breastfeeding mum.”
I’m not so sure. While I’m all for empowering women to feel comfortable to breastfeed and to feel sexy when they are doing it, I think this premise is problematic. I get annoyed when people say that ‘you can still be a mum (or breastfeed) and be sexy’ as if the two things are always going to be mutually exclusive. Maybe I’m an idealist, but I just don’t like the thought that mothers today will always have to worry about ‘proving’ that motherhood isn’t the end of their sexual lives. While it can do nothing but good to get more images of women breastfeeding in daily life, at the same time, why should we have a calendar to prove that?
Thoughts?
*Interesting, the Rugby Breastfeeding Cafe has already complained about the tone of this post, apparently I’m not being supportive enough. I don’t see any place here where I’m not being supportive of breastfeeding, of a woman’s right to breastfeed in public or the breastfeeding support group.
If you read closely, my criticism is not about any of these things, it is about the over-sexualisation of women’s bodies and the quite complex struggle women have in trying to negotiate being mothers and sexual beings in a culture that implores that women be sexy all of the time. I don’t think publishing a calendar remedies this, sorry!
One of the organisers seems to suggest that I haven’t talked to breastfeeding mums so somehow I just don’t understand. If anything, I think I’ve built my academic career on talking to women about being mothers. I always try to be thoughtful and sensitive on this blog in between being funny with moments of smug every so often. I thought about deleting the post but changed by mind. This is an open forum, if you disagree with anything I have to say, you are most welcome to leave comments, as always. In saying that, this is an open forum for me too. It irks me that the person from the Rugby Breastfeeding Cafe that bothered to comment actually didnt provide a contact name or email address for me to respond to her directly and appropriately. I’ve removed the images that were originally posted (which I thought would be only be a boon for calendar sales or at least direct traffic to the site).
Today Post::Kendra Wilkinson: author?
I think Girl Next Door, Kendra Wilkinson is taking over my life.
Now, the pregnant former Playboy bunny is writing a memoir that will be published next summer.
According to Us, “The memoir will be a humorous, relatable, fish-out-of-water tale that captures the spirit of one of the most beloved Playboy cover models in history.”
Just what the world needs.
I mean seriously, how on earth is she going to write a book? Has the publisher seen the rhetorical abortion that is her blog?
Today Post::Breast is not always best
I can feel a controversy brewing.
Joan Wolf, an American academic, examines the medical studies on breastfeeding in painstaking detail in her forthcoming book.
Her conclusion?
"The evidence to date suggests it probably doesn't make much difference if you breastfeed."
And the many of the world’s leading experts agree. While breastfeeding is beneficial for babies, some of its benefits have apparently been ‘oversold’ to new mothers. Wolf, herself a mother and one that did breastfeed her babies, says she was shocked by the information that she found. One of the major problems she says is that it is very hard to separate the benefits of the mother's milk from the benefits of the kind of mother who chooses to breastfeed. In the UK, for example, the highest class of women are 60 per cent more likely to breastfeed than the lowest, so it is not surprising that research shows that breastfed infants display all the health and educational benefits they were born into. In effect, breastfeeding studies could simply be showing what it's like to grow up in a family that makes an effort to be healthy and responsible, as opposed to anything positive in breast milk.
Michael Kramer, professor of paediatrics at McGill University, Montreal agrees. He has advised the World Health Organisation, Unicef and the esteemed scientific body, the Cochrane Library, and been conducting research into the health effects of breastfeeding since 1978. "The public health breastfeeding promotion information is way out of date," Kramer says. The trouble is, he said, that the breastfeeding lobby is at war with the formula milk industry, and "neither side is being very scientific … when it becomes a crusade, people are not very rational."
Thoughts?
Today Post::Swiney
Preggos: Beware the swine!*
SWINEY!
Seriously, is anyone out there wearing a mask in public? Considering there are ’stylish maternity sickness vomit bags’, why hasn’t some bright spark started making pregnancy specific swiney masks with pictures of little foetuses covering their mouths?
*Yes, I know swiney is deadly for pregnant women in some cases. But it’s Friday, and I’m having a bit of fun.
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