Care in the pregnancy

You are pregnant, and in this only moment, we want to accompany you, why, it is already this you the first pregnancy or not, there always arise doubts, questions, fears, and it is good to be provided with a good information to calm down and to enjoy one of the most transcendental moments in the life of a woman.

Here we will deal with the care of the health and the prevention during the pregnancy. That you must bear things in mind to take your pregnancy to happy term. There exist persons who treat the pregnant woman as if it was sick. It is not that you could do any thing in this stage, but yes, it is possible to do an absolutely normal life, bearing in mind certain care, as for example: not to do excessive efforts, not to smoke, not to drink alcohol or certain medicines, etc.

It has taken care during the pregnancy that the common sense already will indicate you that it is the correct thing to do or not, and has taken care during the pregnancy that perhaps you do not know, that have to do with current medical studies for the illnesses prevention during the pregnancy both of the mom and of the baby, studies that detect anomalies of the baby during his gestation, which it is necessary to know things to recognize an emergency, when it is necessary to come to the doctor, etc.

We hope that this care guide should be useful to you during the pregnancy, that together with your doctor obstetra and the persons that you love he will accompany you along this adventure of 9 months, which is to bring a new life to this world.

Stress and pregnancy

To remember: All your actions, they reverberate straight in your baby inside the womb. That's why when you are stressed, your arteries contract, and your baby receives less blood contribution and nutrients across the afterbirth and his cardiac frequency increases. The low oxygenation and nutrition during a long time can harm the growth of your baby. Being able to come to term, but with a low weight on having been born.

The long exhibition to the hormones of the stress, calls epinefrinas (adrenaline, noradrenalina, etc), that will come to him across the afterbirth, can affect the autonomous nervous system of your baby. This might cause, that your son has on having been born: irritability, crying and problems in the feeding. The irrational fears, according to some psychologists, usually have root in the prenatal stage.

Although it is true that the stress is a factor deriesgo for the fetus, like so many other factors, also it is true that not every pregnant and stressed woman will have complications in the childbearing. The same way, if you feel tensed, consult with your obstetra; do a consultation with a therapist, or:

- gymnastics in the water, since the warm water relaxes and calms;

- some recreation activity that you of pleasing;

- Prechildbearing exercises, they will teach you respiratory exercises that will help you to relax, as well as being with other women who are spending the same that you, he will help you to speak about your fears, and be informed and contained, this also will relieve tensions.

Normal inconveniences during the pregnancy:

At the beginning of your pregnancy, it is normal to feel pulls, pricks or cramps in the abdomen. They owe to the stretching of the ligaments that support the womb, which is in full growth stage.

Also it is normal to have light contractions, sometimes up to several times in the day. They happen along the whole pregnancy and are usually painless. There are called “false contractions”, and they are sporadic and arr�tmicas. And they can differ easily with the childbearing contractions. Sometimes you will be able to feel how your paunch becomes hard for a small space, and then it relaxes. They can happen in any moment. Sometimes you can feel them after having had sexual relations. Do not worry so if there are this type of painless contractions, it is absolutely normal.

In the last trimester, especially in the eighth month, inconveniences can feel in the low part of the ribs. This happens for the increase of size of the womb, that it expands towards the thorax. The pressure that exercises the womb on the floating ribs, which are the last ones, can provoke inconveniences in the whole area. In this epoch, of course you will have several contractions in the course of the day.

Sometimes it is common to have cramps in the legs, it might be lacking in potassium. It consults with your obstetra, of course you of some potassium complement, or some change in the feeding. But do not autotake medicine.

Position to sleep during the pregnancy:

In the last months of pregnancy the sleep is very difficult council.

The more the paunch grows, the more difficult it is to find a comfortable position to sleep. The doctors advise not to sleep mouth arrives, so that the weight of the paunch does not compress the circulation of the veins that transport blood to the womb and the afterbirth.

Also it is not a comfortable position, since the pressure that exercises the belly on the diaphragm makes the respiration difficult. The ideal position is a side decubitus, (sideways), preferably on the left side. In most cases the baby is placed mouth below, with the back rested on the left part of the womb. This way the baby will be more comfortable. If you notice that of this side your baby moves very much, it tries the right side.

Important advice: to put a pillow between the legs, and under the paunch it helps other one very much.

Care of the teeth during the pregnancy:

Is it normal that the gums bleed in the pregnancy?

No, it is not normal that the gums bleed during the pregnancy. If this happens, it is an illness sign periodontal, as it happens with any person.

If this is your case, you must meet to the dentist to do a control to you. On the other hand, I recommend to you to realize the dental brushing of meticulous form, three times per day, and using a dental cream fluorada and with antibacterial agents. Also it is good to use mouth rinsing and dental floss at least once a day.

Mammary care during the pregnancy:

The breast receives important hormonal influences during the pregnancy. They can provoke some of these hormones in some cases, benign or malignant illnesses. For this reason, this is the moment in which it is necessary to have major mammary control. The ideal thing would be that your doctor was deriving you to a mast�logo (specialist in breasts), which should do 3 control panel to you during the pregnancy: to the 3, 6, and 9 months of the pregnancy.

It is not advisable to practise mamograf�as during the pregnancy. If a mammary operation was indicated during the pregnancy, this would not harm to the normal development of the same one.