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Pregnancy and smoking
Disorders that may occur in the pregnant smoker are directly proportional to the number of cigarettes smoked. It also influences the stay in places where the surrounding environment is polluted by smoke snuff. One thing that has been observed in many women smokers is that the placenta of these is much greater than those that do not smoke during pregnancy or have never smoked.
This response is defined as compensation to offset the lack of oxygen induced by maternal smoking. To be greater the size of the placenta in these women, the frequency of placenta previa with greater risk of abruptio placenta, bleeding of the same and early rupture of membranes. All of these complications occur more frequently in those smokers who have a high level of consumption.
Several studies have confirmed that the incidence of placental complications is higher in pregnancies of women who smoke than in those who are not.
These complications carry a high risk of preterm birth and fetal or neonatal loss are related as cause of death in deaths related to the birth of the children of smoking mothers.
The cessation of snuff when pregnancy is confirmed, puts these women in a situation almost similar in terms of harm to the fetus is concerned, that of women who never smoked. The fact observed by most gynecologists is that children of mothers who smoke weigh on average at birth between 150 and 250 g less than those infants whose mothers did not smoke.
In female smokers who quit smoking during pregnancy, the weight of their children is identical to the children of those who have never smoked. Although not yet known exactly what is the time when the consumption of snuff is more detrimental to the final weight of the newborn, it seems more evident in the third trimester of pregnancy, a period in which oxygen demand is greater and more urgent.
If you are planning to become pregnant, consult your doctor formulas exist to quit smoking.
Swimming and Pregnancy
Swimming is one of the best sports you can practice without any problem throughout pregnancy. The fact of floating in the water allows tonifiques all your muscles without force them violently, like other violent activities. Besides swimming, you will also help in maintaining your weight and makes you burn more calories than those few that your baby does not need.
It is proven that swimming, apart from toning muscles, relaxes, improves breathing capacity and position of your spine, reducing back pain so common during pregnancy. Besides being a fun physical activity you can do with your partner, the water will make you lose the feeling of excess body weight, especially in the last trimester of pregnancy and will relieve back pain.
As to the different styles of swimming, it strongly discourages the butterfly. Will combine different types of refined, using the most compatible for each person according to their preferences.
We must take into account other aspects such as:
• Make the movements in a softened.
• Do not ever reaching the point of exhaustion. If any symptoms of dizziness or fainting should stop the session immediately.
• Conduct a low intensity aerobic work.
• Perform all movements on coordination with breathing rates.
Other water exercises like jumping or diving, will be banned. First, the risk of trauma to the pregnant woman and the second by the possibility of causing injury to the baby.
The benefits we report the different styles are:
Crawl: This style is achieved correct breathing rate workout. It promotes and enhances neuromuscular coordination of the abdomen muscles.
Back: It will be beneficial especially as regards problems of the spine, common in pregnancy. It will be convenient to perform the backstroke double.
Breaststroke: One of the styles indicated during pregnancy. It should serve is made with a decontraction muscle in the lower back, where there are tensions involuntary. It is good to exercise the adductors-abductors.
20 Weeks Pregnant
We all know that a pregnancy is 40 weeks of pregnancy, so congratulations, you’re halfway through the pregnancy and your baby is already very big! Is as long as a banana. It measures about 25 centimeters, but that does not mean that in the last week has grown 10 centimeters, what happens is now measured from head to toes. In previous weeks, measured from head to bum, because before my legs were very close to the body and it was difficult to measure from head to toe.
Your baby is now covered with a white substance and a little fat is called “vernix caseosa”. This substance protects your skin while you are floating in the amniotic fluid. It also helps the baby to pass more easily through the birth canal during birth. Now swallow more amniotic fluid each day, and that is very good for your digestive system because swallowing helps you practice for when you eat really. In these weeks also taking place in his tummy a substance called meconium. Meconium is black or very dark green, very sticky and is made of all the dead cells, secretions of the stomach and amniotic fluid your baby swallows. Meconium is accumulating in the intestines and will appear in the first diaper you have to change.
Thyroid Disorders During Pregnancy
The thyroid gland is a neuroendocrine, located just below the Adam’s apple with the thyroid cartilage and trachea. Weighs between 15 and 30 grams in the adult and is formed by two butterfly-shaped lobes on both sides of the trachea. The thyroid gland regulates the metabolism of the body, producing proteins and regulates the body’s sensitivity to other hormones.
If this gland is not working properly, it can suffer from hypothyroidism (underactive gland) or hyperthyroidism (overactive). These diseases can have very harmful to the pregnancy if not detected and treated early through a simple blood test.
Hypothyroidism: This type of imbalance may impair the mental development of children. Some symptoms may appear:
• Fatigue
• An unexpected weight gain
• Dry skin
• Intolerance to cold
• Muscle weakness
Hyperthyroidism: This condition may increase the risk that the baby is born very low birth weight or the mother has preeclampsia, a disease characterized by high blood pressure. Some symptoms that may appear are:
• Heat intolerance
• Heat in the skin
• Sweating
• Tremors
• Weight loss
• Palpitations
Fortunately, very few pregnant women suffer from some form of thyroid imbalance. But if you notice anything unusual, it is best to notify your doctor to be safe. Watch for these symptoms when the baby comes, because 1 in 20 women develop thyroid problems after childbirth.
The Second Trimester Ultrasound
The second trimester ultrasound done around 20 weeks of gestation, the most important of the scans that are performed throughout pregnancy, as it also assesses fetal morphology and anatomy. This ultrasound can diagnose 70% of the serious diseases of the baby.
Then we will see the goals of the second trimester ultrasound:
A. – Fetal biometry. The following parameters are taken:
• biparietal diameter, ie that measured head width. Is the measure most commonly used to know how many weeks are pregnant.
• Head circumference, ie the circumference of the head.
• abdominal diameter, which is what measures the abdomen to the navel.
• abdominal circumference.
• Length of the femur, which is the parameter that assesses the size of the baby. Femur is chosen to be the longest bone in the body.
2. – Vitality fetal
An assessment of fetal life by fetal movements and heartbeat.
3.-Evaluation of the placenta.
• The location, if earlier, later or in background.
• Number of vessels of the umbilical cord. Normally there are three, two arteries and one vein, but it sometimes happens that there are only two, an artery and a vein. Sometimes this is associated with fetal pathology, and therefore will have to follow it closely.
4. – Assessment of the amount of amniotic fluid.
5.-Determination of sex of the baby. Parents are anxious because it is this scan tell if male or female.
6.-Fetal Anatomy
Should be performed thoroughly and in order not to skip any important structure:
Head: We will see if there dome head and brain mass, will continue to face check if you have two eyes nose and mouth if the palate is full and if the lip is tight.
If a defect:
• Anencephaly: the absence of brain, is a malformation incompatible with life.
• Cleft lip defect in the closure of the upper lip, problems in feeding.
• Cleft palate: If there is a fissure in the upper palate.
• craniofacial abnormalities
Tips: To evaluate the presence of all four limbs with five fingers each.
Possible malformations:
• Syndactyly: When two or more fingers are together.
• Defects in the formation of the extremities, such as shortened limbs or no formation of a hand, it is often the case when there Amniotic Band is developed that prevents the full membership because it acts as a stopper.
• Claw Hand
Chest: Check that the heart is left with four cameras with their glasses, there are two lungs that right cardiopulmonary circuit.
Malformations:
• Dextrocardio: Heart on the right sometimes produces no complications.
• Transposition of the great vessels the large vessels such as aorta and pulmonary artery are placed opposite. Surgical treatment at birth.
• Cardiomegaly: The heart is bigger than normal.
Abdomen: Displays the stomach, is the intestinal mass and are within the abdomen, visualize the bladder and both kidneys.
Spine: Check that the whole and not interrupted at any time.
Possible malformations:
• Spina Bifida: Default neural tube fails to close at its most distal, thus what is produced is an alteration in motor and sensory level of the lower limbs and incontinence.
Genital integrity check.
Malformations:
• Uterus bicornis: heart-shaped uterus
• Hypospadias: the male urethra has a wrongful termination
• Ovarian agenesis: No ovaries
Preparing for the Arrival of a New Sibling
The arrival of a newborn to the family is a source of joy, but also the announcement of possible problems with older children, who until now have been the “kings of the house,” especially if it is an only child.
Jealousy is inevitable to a greater or lesser extent, so we must accept as natural. All children often feel that the arrival of brother robs them of their place in the family. Only the love of parents can overcome such feelings and reactions become something lasting.
There are no magic bullets, but something that helps parents allowed the child to be active part of the period of pregnancy. In this way feel that you are not marginalized or him away.
The months of pregnancy are great for the child gradually gets used to the idea of ??having to share their parents, their space and perhaps also their toys.
It is necessary to consider certain recommendations to help better prepare the child:
- Parents should be those who give the news, not a relative or friend.
- Talk with the child’s good to know how you feel and, at the same time for parents discuss their own feelings about it.
- It is worth mentioning that other children have siblings.
- If possible, visit someone who has had a baby recently.
- When discussing the issue, it is convenient to refer to “our baby” to convey that to be a member of the family.
- To help the child to become aware of the existence of a brother, you may be invited to feel the kicks that gives the baby to move in the womb.
- It’s good to give kisses and hugs to guatita, bearing in mind that the inside is your brother.
- The child can attend an ultrasound, if your doctor allows. The opportunity is to explain what you see is a baby growing inside the mother.
- It’s good that they do participate in the choice of name.
- When you buy something the baby, tie a small gift to the child as well.
- It is recommended to participate in choosing the furniture in the room.
- Go together to buy the clothes and let him choose a garment.
- Could make clothes that he has used when small and choose what you will lend a brother.
- After shopping or the doctor, it’s good to share with your child and make something together.
- If changes of room, it is convenient to do so well before the birth, to prevent the child thinks that move.
- If a little girl, can they be motivated to play with dolls, to acquaint you with the process. It is convenient to buy toys that represent each one of you. The child can create stories involving the baby.
- There are stories that tell of the arrival of a baby home. Would be good if you read this type of literature.
Above all these recommendations, the most important thing is that they make you feel you love him, explain and reiterate as love him and that the arrival of a sibling will not change how they feel about it. This is necessary to avoid a feeling of abandonment arises in the small.
After the birth
Childbirth is a time of great excitement and commotion time and therefore must take into account a number of indications:
The clinic and the arrival at the house:
- The days when the mother is confined must leave at home, preferably with a relative. The child should not these days staying in another house, since his return may have feelings that his brother has invaded their space and that caused his departure from the house.
- It is good to the hospital to see his mom and see the baby, explaining where to go beforehand and why.
- It is desirable that the child is welcome in the house to the new family member.
- When someone comes to know the baby, try to attend to the child too, to feel that they take into account.
- Let her see the child the things you will be able to teach his brother when he grows up.
- Permítamle touching and stroking the infant, as this will close the bond between children.
- It is also advisable to ask for help to the child, in some tasks related to the baby, to feel that provides the care.
- Highlight the importance of being the largest and the advantages. For example, go biking with friends and going to movies, among other things.
- Try not to modify the child’s routines.
Nor should fall into the opposite extreme, exaggerating or concern for the older children. The more natural than the parents and explain that love is shared equally among all the brothers, things will go better. If so overprotective or act differently than usual, children feel that something strange happens.
Jealousy would have to go to the extent that they all used to the situation. Impress the child is essential that their presence and collaboration are essential to the care of his brother, which creates a positive attitude towards the baby and helps to create a fraternal bond between them.
Despite following these recommendations, there may be different in your child’s behavior that indicate the presence of jealousy. Some are normal and only lasts about three to four months. However, if you believe that undermines or lasts a long time is good to ask a professional orientation, for example, a child psychologist.
Reactions that the child may have:
Parents should be aware that it is likely that before the arrival of a brother, his son go back in some learning, including:
- To urinate, if you already warned.
- Try to get attention, when parents are busy.
- Difficulty in sleep and poor sleep.
- Be daring and disobedient to those around him.
- Mourn than usual, for anything.
- Assaulting the baby with tweaks and minor knocks. In that case, we must make him see that this is wrong and must care for his brother.
- Problems in school performance, if you go to school.
Ninth month of pregnancy
So you only have four weeks to birth your baby, do not sleep well and you get tired much faster in recent weeks also decrease your baby kicks a lot, because it has no space to move around much, will be in the fetal position and quiet remaining weeks until delivery.
Changes in the pregnant
Many suffer from leg cramps especially at night, eat bananas, the potassium helps you stretch your legs and lower them at bedtime, this will help you feel a little better.
Another change you can experience in the last month of pregnancy is that your belly pops out, that by stretching your belly has suffered. Need more care and not much to push yourself physically, there will be things that you can not do, let me help.
In the last month you may see some varicose veins in your legs, that the weight gain, hemorrhoids, insomnia, and stretch marks as your skin has stretched a lot. Do not worry because most complaints will disappear when your baby is born. While varicose veins may not go.
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