You have finished the stages of pregnancy, from the first trimester and the second trimester. Now you in the last trimester, start from seventh month to ninth month. In ninth month, the time to childbirth is closer. What you need to bring with you in a hospital? What to pack for your stay in the hospital. This is one of the most important elements to giving birth that many women forget until the last minute.

Packing in advance will make getting to the hospital or birth center much easier when you are in labour. When packing your bag, you should include the following:

• Clothing for three or four days
• Clothing for the baby
• Extra pillows
• Emergency contact numbers
• Slippers
• Extra towel
• Hair brush/tooth brush
• Bathrobe
• Extra socks
• Hand cloths

If your doctor suggests anything else, you should pack it as well. You should keep your bag near the bedside or the front door so that you do not forget it before going to the hospital or birthing center.

If you have to go to the hospital early, you will want to pack extra clothing. Since you will be preoccupied with your baby’s birth, you should pack a few weeks in advance.

Once you arrive at the hospital, you may have to wait a few hours before you will be ready to deliver your baby. This time may be painful or it may not. It depends on many factors including stress. You should try to remain as calm as possible. Bring a book or crossword puzzle so that you can keep you mind occupied. This will make the time go by.

As you get closer to the delivery time, your contractions will be closer together. While this can be very painful, you will be getting closer to meeting your baby for the first time. Having a bag filled with items from home will make this time a little easier. Having supportive people around you will also help.

After giving birth, you will be very tired. You will fall asleep after meeting your child. Having their clothing and yours with you in the hospital room is a great start to your parenting.

You are now in the last trimester of pregnancy stages. Your baby will born in a short time in ninth month of pregnancy. You must ready to welcome it. What about your baby’s name? You must choose a name for your baby. Chosen a name look like easy, but sometimes it is difficult too. You must be careful picking a name for your baby. Here the article about: Picking a Name before Your Pregnancy Ends.

Choosing a name is one of the most important things you’ll have to decide on during your pregnancy. Pick a name that your child is going to love, not something he/she will hate or be made fun of. There are a lot of things to consider when naming your child.

• Origin

The origin of a name can help you pick out what name you like best, this also adds a piece of history to your child. Giving your son/daughter an Italian name because their great grandfather originally came over from Sicily will mean a lot to the family. Not to mention your child will always know they’re Italian. This doesn’t mean you can only choose names that go with your heritage, there may be a name out there that belongs to your child that isn’t.

• The Sound of the Name:

Names can be hard to pronounce sometimes, not just for other people but for your child as well. Don’t choose a name you have a hard enough time saying, imagine how hard it’ll be for your own child to learn. The spelling can also be a cause for concern. Your child must learn how to spell his/her name; you don’t want a name that has over 20 letters long. Do you think you’d be able to learn to spell that in kindergarten? Think about your child first, sure the name might sound great but make sure it isn’t something that is going to be really hard. This doesn’t mean don’t choose a name that is unique, that is what makes your child stand out. But make sure that is what you really want.

• Meaning

Meaning can be another factor when choosing a name, learn what that name means before you pick it. You might want something that means something dear to you. My daughter’s name means pure hope, I thought it was a lovely gesture and it sounded beautiful. Think about choosing a positive meaning for your child, this is the first thing that will be associated with him/her the moment he/she is born.

• Gender names

Gender naming is another important issue. Think about if the name sounds like a boy’s name or a girl’s name. There are names that can go either way such as Sam, Erin or Angel.

• Nicknames

When picking out a name, don’t forget that your child may end up being called by a nickname because of the name you have chosen. If this is something you don’t want, try picking a name that can’t be shortened. But don’t be surprised if it happens anyways. If you don’t mind, try picking out a name that’ll have a nickname you enjoy.

Last but certainly not least, remember children can be cruel think about the initials your child will have. You don’t want something that its initials mean something else. You want your child to be proud of his/her name. Not everyone is going to like the name you have chosen for your child, but as long as it is something you like, your child will like it too.

]]> http://www.pregnancy-stages.info/picking-a-name-for-your%e2%80%99s-baby/feed 0 http://www.pregnancy-stages.info/ultrasound http://www.pregnancy-stages.info/ultrasound#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:50:35 +0000 Lianny http://pregnancy-stages.info/?p=13 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.

Ultrasound is a series of very high frequency sound waves. These sound waves are of a frequency that can not be heard by humans, so they are not detected by the woman or the fetus. A tool called a transducer, which looks something like a stethoscope, is placed on a woman’s abdomen. The sounds go through her skin and bounce back off whatever they contact inside the abdomen, producing an image that resembles a fuzzy black and white photograph. These images have become the now familiar ultrasound pictures of stages of pregnancy.

The use of ultrasound became increasingly prevalent in the 1960s. By then, scientists had discovered that, if the sound waves were in motion, the Doppler Effect would produce more accurate pictures. The Doppler Effect is familiar to most people when they hear a horn coming toward them and then moving away. Since sound is different if it is coming or going, the technique was used to produce more accurate pictures. The technique also allows ultrasound pictures of stages of pregnancy to detect motion of the fetus.

By accident, it was learned that the best ultrasound pictures of stages of pregnancy were produced when the techniques was used on women with full bladders. The use of ultrasound has become a common practice in obstetrics and women usually enjoy seeing the first “pictures” of their infants.

Ultrasound pictures of stages of pregnancy are most common in the second and third trimesters of the pregnancy. By that point, the fetus is usually large enough that it can easily be detected. During the next several weeks, depending on the position of the fetus, it may be possible for a woman to discover not only the gender of her child, but whether or not she is carrying more than one child.

This information, however, is not infallible, as the pictures can be misleading in the earlier weeks of the second trimester. As the fetus grows and its organs, arms, legs, fingers, toes and head become more recognizable, it is easier to detect the gender of the child or children. The ultrasound pictures of stages of pregnancy also allow practiced physicians to detect any possible problems in the fetus.

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.

Eating well during pregnancy is going to help your baby eat well after it is born and on solid foods. As your pregnancy progresses, some of what you eat will cross the placenta and the taste will be in your baby’s amniotic fluid. Babies swallow this fluid and their taste buds are so develop that even in the womb they are able to taste the flavours. Doctors believe that babies who are exposed to a wide variety of fruit and vegetables while in utero have less of a chance of being a fussy eater later in life. They believe that these are the babies who will eat their fruit and vegetables without putting up any fight.

Doctors also believe that moms who drink their milk through out their pregnancy have an easier time weaning their babies from formula or breast milk to regular milk. This however is only one benefit, the other benefit of drinking milk throughout your pregnancy is all the calcium you will be giving your baby’s bones. Many doctors recommend that you drink at least one eight oz glass of milk, usually fat free a day. Calcium is a must have your baby’s bones and his teeth, even though you won’t see his teeth for at least a few months.

This isn’t to say that you have to stay away from all sweets all the time. You can indulge every now and then and thanks to cravings you may find yourself wanting sweets more often than not. You do have to keep it in moderation. Being pregnant should not be looked at as an excuse to eat whatever you want for nine months. Both you and your baby could pay a dear price.

The third trimester of pregnancy stages starts from the 28^th 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 eighth month

Physical

• Moving of the baby often and more clearly

• Being constipated increases.
• Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
• Headache
• Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible.
• An increased vaginal discharge without any soreness or irritation.
• 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, belly button jutting.
• Backache.
• Breathless increases, because wombs push the lung.
• Difficult to sleep.
• Contraction increases.
• The risk of fall increases.
• Colostrums can be infiltrating out if the breast touched.

Emotional

• The situation that you are absent-minded increases.
• Feeling wish so that expire soon.
• More knowledge about the healthy baby and childbirth.
• Feeling happy because the birth of baby will come soon.

How the baby’s growing in eight month?

You can measure your baby from top to toe with his legs extended; your baby is about 45 cm, and weight 2.5 kg. In this month, the baby’s brain grows very fast. Eyes of your baby begin to open around now. Response to sound grows more consistent. The body’s system growing already, but the growing of lung is not full.

The ninth month

Physical

• The changes of baby’s movement.

• Being constipated increases.
• Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
• Headache
• Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible.
• An increased vaginal discharge without any soreness or irritation.
• Felling the ears and nose choke, sometimes nosebleed.
• Bloody gum when scrubbing tooth.
• Cramp in tooth when you sleep.
• Little swelling in foot and talus, sometimes in face and hand too.
• Hemorrhoid.
• Feeling itching at stomach, belly button jutting.
• Backache increases.
• Difficult to sleep.
• Contraction increases and hardly.
• Painful in hip and posterior part.
• The risk of fall increases.
• Colostrums can be infiltrating out if the breast touched.
• Easier to breath when embryo’s position dip already.
• Frequent urge to urinate increases after embryo in dip position.
• Tiredness or affluent energy, or alternate happens.

Emotional

• The situation that you are absent-minded increases.
• Feeling wish so that expire soon.
• Dreaming about the baby.
• Not patient and anxious.
• More sensitive and easy to angry.
• Feeling happy because the birth of baby will come soon, and worry too.

How your baby’s growing in ninth semester?

It is a time to organ finalization and for the baby to grow strong enough to survive on its own after birth. The lung is full growing. Your baby is about 5 centimeters long. Your baby weighs is 1.25 kg. The baby is less active because the hip is too narrow for the baby now. Your baby also continues to take small breaths and although your baby not breathing in air, only breathing in water, it is still good practice for when your baby’s born. Your baby will arrive soon and the physical effects of pregnancy will be soon forgotten.

The second trimester of pregnancy stages starts from the 13^th 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.

The fifth month

Physical

• Moving of the baby.

• 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, 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.
• Growing appetite.
• 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.
• Increasing heartbeat.
• More easy to orgasm or more difficult.
• Backache.
• The colors of skin in stomach or face are changing.

Emotional

• Heart ambience that is often changes, start t to decrease, but sometimes fluidity like menstruation syndrome, such as easy to angry, mushy is still appear.

• The situation that you are absent-minded is still continues.
• You are able take the realism that you are pregnant.

How the baby’s growing in the fifth month?

In the last of fifth month, the mother can feel the rooting of the baby. The length of the baby is 20.3 – 25.4 cm. The layer of smooth’s bristle cover up the body. The hair begins growing in head. The white eyebrow and eyelash begin appear.

The sixth month

Physical

• Moving of the baby more clearly.

• Being constipated.
• An increased vaginal discharge without any soreness or irritation.
• Painful in undercarriage stomach
• Feel burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
• Headache
• Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible.
• Growing appetite.
• 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.
• The colors of skin in stomach or face are changing.

Emotional

• More little heart ambience that is often changes.
• The situation that you are absent-minded is still continues.
• Feeling boring about pregnancy. (“Why the people can’t think the other things except my pregnancy?”)
• Feeling worry about future.

How your baby’s growing in sixth month?

During the second trimester, the baby continues to grow rapidly and refines its body function to get ready to enter the world

In the last of sixth month, the length is about 33 cm with the weight 0.9 kg. The skin is thin and gleam, without fat’s layer. Fingers and foot can be seen. The eyes open. If the baby is birth, the baby can alive with intensive treatment.

The first trimester of pregnancy stages is the stage of pregnancy from conception to 12 weeks, that is the first, second and third month of your pregnancy stages. This trimester is a strange time. What do you feel in the First trimester of your pregnancy stages?

There are physical and emotional changes in your body in the first month of your pregnancy stages.

The first month

Physical

• The pregnant women have no menstruation. ( Although be able have a little as usually you have menstruation )
• Tired and sleepy
• Morning Sickness
• Often to urinate
• Hiccoughs with or without pukes
• Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach
• Food aversion and craving
• The changes in breast. Often the breast become larger and feels tender, rather as they may do before a period. The breast may tingle. The veins may show up more and the nipples may darken and stand out

Emotional

• Fluidity like menstruation syndrome, such as easy to angry, heart ambience which often change, not rationale, mushy.
• Feeling happy, nervous, elation.

How’s the baby growing in first month?

In the last of first month in the first trimester, the embryo is very tiny, just like apple seed and tinier than rice. As long as two weeks later, brain, spinal cord, heart, digestion’s system appear already. Hand and foot’s seed will begin to appear.

The second month

Physical

• Feeling tired and sleepy.
• Frequent urge to urinate.
• Hiccoughs with or without pukes, with or without affluent saliva
• Being constipated.
• Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
• Food aversion and craving
• Headache
• Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible
• Clothes densely in waist part and breast, stomach looks bigger, maybe because the puffy intestine not accretion of womb.

Emotional

• Fluidity like menstruation syndrome, such as easy to angry, heart ambience which often change, not rationale, mushy.
• Feeling happy, nervous, elation.

How’s the baby growing in second month?

In the last of second month, embryo looks like as a human already. The length is about 3 cm from head to bottom (1/3 from that is head), the weight is about 1/3 ounces (13 grams). The baby has heartbeat, arm, leg with fingers and foot’s prospective. The cartilage begins to change with bone.

The third month

Physical

• Feeling tired and sleepy.
• Frequent urge to urinate.
• Hiccoughs with or without pukes, with or without affluent saliva
• Being constipated.
• Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
• Food aversion and craving
• Headache
• Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible
• Clothes densely in waist part and breast, stomach looks bigger, maybe because the puffy intestine not accretion of womb.
• Growing appetite

Emotional

• Fluidity like menstruation syndrome, such as easy to angry, heart ambience which often change, not rationale, mushy.
• Feeling happy, nervous, elation.
• Appearing the new dispassionate

How the baby’s growing in third month?

In the last of third month, length of this fetus is 5 to 7 ½ cm, weight ½ ounce (20 gram). More body’s part growing, blood circulation’s system already continue, heart begin to produce bile. Reproduction system begins to grow, but still difficult to differentiate sex of the baby.

Pregnancy stages are the three trimesters during which your baby progresses from an embryo to fetus, to the time it is born as a recognizable tiny human. Pregnancy trimester is divided into three stages of three month each, which is the first trimester, the second trimester and the third semester.

The First Trimester

The first trimester is a strange time. During the first trimester, your baby is growing at a tremendous rate. You also may look pretty much like the same woman who is not pregnant. But your body is going trough changes faster. Hormones are firing away and all sorts of other chemical are doing your stuff. The resulting side effects are varied, not only from woman to woman, but for each individual woman from hour to hour.

The second Trimester

The second trimester is the kind of temporary return to near normal. It’s the proverbial calm before the explosion. One cool thing does occur in the second trimester: you can actually feel your baby. The baby makes its presence known through kicking. The second trimester is also the time that many expecting mothers will undergo ultrasound. Ultrasound is taking pictures with sound waves.

The Third Trimester

This is the last trimester of pregnancy stages. The third trimester brings more of the same-only worse. First off, sitting down will be an effort for you and something that is impossible to do gracefully.

Once you have traveled trough all the stages of pregnancy, you will begin a brand new chapter in your life as a mother. Though the journey may seem long and hard, enjoy it as much as you can. All of the pains that you are happened will be well worth the struggle. The amazing growth and development of the baby within just a few months is one of the greatest miracles of motherhood.