Archive for September, 2008
Exercise during Pregnancy
Why the Exercise during Pregnancy is Important?
Some pregnant women have the questions about the exercise during their pregnancy. Can I get the exercise during my pregnancy? Is it dangerous or not for me and my baby’s growing then? Some women are though in their minds that they have a nine month pass to keeping up with their gym routine. In the first trimester, the first three months they are battling morning sickness and exhaustion and the other common problems during the early pregnancy. In second trimester, the next three months they are beginning to show. The third trimester, the last three months are so uncomfortable that walking ten feet to the bathroom is pure torture, so there is no way they will be able to walk on a treadmill for ten minutes.
Serious Problems in Pregnancy
SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN PREGNANCY
All pregnant women always hope that their pregnancy has no serious problems, but sometimes it can happen. It is important to know what is it, here some of the serious problems in pregnancy.
- Hiperemesis Gravidarum
- Vaginal bleeding
- Pre-Eclampsia ( High blood pressure because of pregnancy )
- Severe Itching and Obstetric Cholestatis
Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes in pregnancy
Gestational diabetes is one of the most common pregnancy complications that happens during the pregnancy, some of the pregnant woman get it. This condition happens when pregnant women have high blood sugar levels during their pregnancy. It is not really known what can cause gestational diabetes. Some experts say that overweight women have a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes, but there is not much evidence to support this. You can watch your sugar level. You can eat a healthy diet. With controlling your blood sugar level, you can continue your healthy pregnancy.
What is known about gestational diabetes is that one of the only cures is to deliver the baby. After delivery your blood sugar level will go back down to normal. The common treatment for gestational diabetes has been insulin shots. Just as if you had diabetes when you were not pregnant, you would have to take shots each day. Some women find though that by changing their diet, they are able to manage their gestational diabetes without having to give themselves a shot of insulin.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is taking pictures with sound waves. The procedure is totally painless for you and the baby. Ultrasound use in order to: determine the sex of the baby, make sure everything is progressing okay, and have something extra to charge you for. At the end of the procedure they will present you with the first picture of your unborn child.
Looking at Ultrasound Pictures of Pregnancy stages
The history of ultrasound is based in the sonar that was used by the world’s navies during World War 2. After the war, researchers began experimenting with sonar to see if it could be helpful in medical diagnosis. It was first used to detect cancers and other growths that needed medical attention. It wasn’t until the 1950s that the medical community recognized that sonar could be useful to take ultrasound pictures of stages of pregnancy.
Eating Healthy
Eating Healthy in pregnancy
The quality eating healthily in pregnancy is more important than the quantity. Here some food that useful for healthy diet in pregnancy.
- Fruit and vegetables
You can eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, because those are providing the vitamin and minerals. Those contain the fiber which prevents constipation. Frozen,tinned and dried fruit and vegetables are good too.
- Cereals, bread, potatoes, rice, pasta Those are an important food of your diet. You can combine then with vegetables to make any meal. They are containing the vitamin, fibre, and contain not too much calories. You can try to eat wholemeal bread and wholegrain cereals in your diet menu.
- Lean meat, fish, poultry, eggs, cheese, beans and pulses
You can eat some of them everyday; they are all good sources of nutrients.
Pregnancy and nutrition
Pregnancy and nutrition
Nutrition is one of the most important things that must be keeping by pregnant woman to get the healthy pregnancy. Just try eating as good as you can through out most of your pregnancy. The first trimester in pregnancy might be a little difficult to eat balanced meals when you get the morning sickness and food aversion problems. If you are one of the rare lucky ones whose stomach doesn’t so much as move during your first trimester, then you can take full advantage of eating healthy right out of the gate. Healthy pregnancy is very important for you and your baby.
You must try to eat balanced nutritious meals to laying down the foundation for your baby. The baby’s growing such us the bone development and the organ formation is also depends to yours, what you eat is what your baby’s eat too. Try not to eat the junk food during the pregnancy. Your baby and your body need calcium and vitamins to make the perfect pregnancy.
Common Problems in Pregnancy2
COMMON PROBLEMS IN PREGNANCY
Common Problems in pregnancy part 2
Heartburn
Heartburn is more than just indigestion. It is strong, burning pain in the chest. This conditions caused by the valve between your stomach and the tube leading to your stomach relaxing in pregnancy, so that stomach acid passes into the tube.
What can you do?
- Try to sleep well.
- For a few hours before you go to sleep, avoiding eating or drinking.
- Ask the doctor.
Itching
This condition usually happens in pregnancy because of the increased blood supply to the skin. In late pregnancy the skin of the abdomen is stretched and this may also cause itchiness.
What can you do?
- You can wear loose clothing.
- Ask the doctor if itching becomes severe or continue into more serious problems.
Passing water often
This condition happens in first trimester of pregnancy stages. But for some women, it can continue right trough pregnancy. In third trimester it usually happens too, because of the baby’s head pressing on the bladder.
What can you do?
- Try cutting out drinks in the late evening.
- Ask the doctor if you have any pain while passing water, or pass any blood. Its means that you may have a urine infection which will need treatment.
COMMON PROBLEMS IN PREGNANCY
COMMON PROBLEMS IN PREGNANCY
Here are the common problems in pregnancy that almost all pregnant women get them in their pregnancy stages.
Common Problems in pregnancy part 1
Morning sickness
The name is kind of general, and with good reason. This sickness can be anything from a little upset tummy to a full-blown, hold nothing back, tossing of one’s cookies. It can be different for the other pregnant women. The sickness can also appear at any time or throughout the day.
Nausea
Nausea is very common in the early weeks of pregnancy, in the first trimester of pregnancy stages. Some women are sick; some women are just feeling sick. This happens in the morning, some at other time, some all day long. This condition is not fully understood, but hormonal changes in the first three months are probably one cause. Nausea usually disappears around the 12th to 14th week.
What can you do?
- If you feel sick first thing in the morning, get up slowly from the bed. If possible, get sweet tea; eat something like dry toast or a plain biscuit before you get up.
- Drink plenty of fluids.
- Don’t stop eating; you can eat small amounts often rather than several large meals.
- Get plenty of rest and sleep whenever you can.
- Distract yourself as much as you can.
- Avoid the foods and smells that make you feel worse.
- Remedies containing ginger may be helpful.
- Wear comfortable clothes. Tight waistband can make you feel worse.
- Contact your doctor if you are being sick all the time and cannot keep anything down.
Headaches
Some pregnant women find they get a lot of headaches.
What can you do?
- Regular rest and relaxation.
- A brisk walk.
- Ask the doctor if you have bad headaches. Severe headaches may be a sign of high blood pressure.
The Third Trimester
THE THIRD TRIMESTER
The third trimester of pregnancy stages starts from the 28th till the birth of the baby, that is the seventh, eight, and ninth month of your pregnancy stages. It is the last trimester of pregnancy stages. What do you feel in the third trimester of your pregnancy stages? There are physical and emotional changes in your body in the third trimester of your pregnancy stages.
The seventh month
Physical
- Moving of the baby often and more clearly
- Being constipated.
- An increased vaginal discharge without any soreness or irritation.
- Painful in undercarriage stomach
- Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
- Headache
- Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible.
- Felling the ears and nose choke, sometimes nosebleed.
- Bloody gum when scrubbing tooth.
- Cramp in tooth.
- Little swelling in foot and talus, sometimes in face and hand too.
- Hemorrhoid.
- Feeling itching at stomach.
- Backache.
- Short wind.
- Difficult to sleep.
- Contraction which is not persistent, usually not painful.
- The risk of fall increases.
- Colostrums can be infiltrating out if the breast touched.
Emotional
- The situation that you are absent-minded is still continues
- More dream about the baby.
- More knowledge about how to be a mom, the healthy baby and childbirth.
- Feel boring and tired about pregnancy, emerge wish so that expire soon.
How the baby’s growing in seventh month?
In the last seventh month, the fat begin appear in baby’s body. The baby may take in the fingers in mouth, cry, hiccup, and also can feel sweet or sour. Take action if there is stimulate of pain, sound and radiance. Placenta’s function and amnion’s liquid begin disappear, because the baby which the length is 1.5 kg fulfill the womb.
Maybe the baby can alive if the baby is born now.
The Second Trimester
THE SECOND TRIMESTER
The second trimester of pregnancy stages starts from the 13th week to the 28th week, that is the fourth, fifth, and sixth month of your pregnancy stages. This second trimester is kind of the temporary return to near normal. What do you feel in the second trimester of your pregnancy stages? There are physical and emotional changes in your body in the second trimester of your pregnancy stages.
The fourth month
Physical
- Feeling tired and sleepy.
- Frequent urge to urinate start to decrease.
- Hiccoughs with or without pukes, with or without affluent saliva, start to decrease. But in other pregnant women the hiccoughs is still continues, and the others women just start to hiccoughs. It is different one another.
- Being constipated.
- Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
- Headache
- Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible, mainly if the pregnant women change her position sudden.
- Clothes densely in waist part and breast, stomach looks bigger, maybe because the puffy intestine not accretion of womb.
- The breast is still continuing bigger, but painful and swelling start to decrease.
- Growing appetite.
- Felling the ears and nose choke, sometimes nosebleed.
- Bloody gum when scrubbing tooth.
- Little swelling in foot and talus, sometimes in face and hand too.
- Hemorrhoid.
- An increased vaginal discharge without any soreness or irritation.
- The moving of the baby show at the end of the fourth month ( usually this is not the first pregnancy)
Emotional
- Fluidity like menstruation syndrome, such as easy to angry, heart ambience that is often changes, not rationale, mushy.
- Feeling happy, nervous, elation when you begin feeling that you are pregnant.
- Frustration, when you don’t feel that you are pregnant surely, but your body has too big to wear the clothes that you usually wears, but too little to pregnant clothes.
- Addlebrained sensibility. Beginning absent-minded, bring down things, your mind incoherent, difficult to focus attention.
How’s the baby growing in the fourth month?
In the last fourth month, the length of fetus is 10 cm, now the fetus can take the nutrition by placenta, reflexive stroke (such as: take the finger in mouth and suck) is beginning growing. The seed of teeth begin appear. The fingers and foot appear greater. Though like as a human but the baby still can’t out of sustainable live out of the womb.
