Showing posts with label Pregnant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pregnant. Show all posts

Monday, December 13, 2010

Some tips to relieve stress in pregnant women


You can try some tips to overcome stress. Remember above all try to protect you and your baby from the bad influence of this stress.

Some tips to relieve stress in pregnant women:

• Try Searching for Cause. Try to find out whether the cause of your stress - your personal relationships or in connection with your job, or the other and find an effective way to cope and deal with it.

• Eat a Good Diet. . When we are healthy and fit, we will be able to cope with stress by better. For that you must keep a healthy diet, adequate rest, and do regular exercise that will help you to keep fit.

• Sports. . Research shows that exercise during pregnancy not only makes a healthy body-fit also makes a healthy soul.

• Avoid Habits That No Good For Emotional Factors .. Look for other alternatives if you become really want to smoke, or alcohol. Try to switch to exercising, talking with friends / family, singing, chewed gum, or eat fruit or anything else you can do to divert your wish that this could harm your baby.

• Communication. . Social isolation and feeling alone makes you more difficult to deal with trouble, sorrow. Establish a good emotional relationship with your partner, your family and your friends. Communication / good emotional relationship will help you deal with adversity and sadness because of support from spouse, family and friends.

• Following the activity. . Meditation, Yoga and massage will help reduce tension in your muscles. According to research proved these activities affect the body's reaction to stress by lowering stress hormones and slow the heart rate.

• Rest the Comfortable., Lie down on one side (the left side recommended), dikamar a quiet, listen to soft music, imagine yourself in place that you like for example on the beach, in parks etc..

• Talk with your doctor .. You can talk about your feelings and your complaints to your doctor. Do not hesitate and shy to express your feelings and your complaints to your doctor. The doctor will assess whether you need treatment or not, or if you need to consult a doctor of psychiatry. So that can be taken as quickly and as possible.

Try to make the days are beautiful during your pregnancy, which will give an unforgettable wonderful experience for you and your partner.

Pregnancy is a wonderful gift from Him to you!
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

How sleeping position is best for pregnant women?


Pregnant women should not have to worry about the baby in the womb you feel uncomfortable or dangerous, because the mother's body is so unique in the created order to provide protection, as well as the fetus in the womb you do not ever feel uncomfortable because the fetus in the womb floats in amniotic fluid and have their own space to move freely.


Sleeping with the prone position, it is safe for pregnant women but usually pasa first trimester of pregnancy, the breast enlargement and breast are also more sensitive will cause inconvenience to sleep on his stomach, and at a time when your stomach has begun to enlarge (initial 14 weeks) sleeping with the prone position become very uncomfortable because you have to support the thigh with a pillow to sleep on his stomach because the stomach begins to enlarge. From a survey of pregnant women who slept with the prone position before 16 weeks of 1% but after about 16 weeks to 0%.


Sleep on their backs, it is recommended after pregnancy is 16 weeks pregnant women to not sleep on their backs, because you put to sleep on their backs the whole weight of the uterus to the back, intestines, and the inferior vena cava. Sleep on their backs can also increase the risk of back pain, hemorrhoids, and indigestion, and disrupt breathing and circulation. Supine sleeping position on the second and third trimester can also affect blood pressure. For some women, causes a decrease in blood pressure that makes them feel dizzy, to the others, actually increase blood pressure. In the case of pregnancy with high blood pressure with their backs to sleep is NOT recommended.



Actually, how sleeping position is best for pregnant women?


No further research on safe sleeping positions for pregnant women, but highly recommended after 16 weeks gestation, pregnant women should sleep with SLOPE POSITION TO LEFT SIDE, because this position gives advantage for your baby to get the blood flow and nutrients to the maximum placenta because of the large vein (vena cava inferior) on the back of the right spine of which return blood from the lower body to the heart. It can also help the kidneys to remove excess fluid from the product and the mother's body, thereby reducing the swelling in the feet, ankles and hands.


Sleep SLOPE POSITION TO RIGHT, are also good, you can change their right-left tilt position to make you sleep more comfortably.


If you wake up tonight and find you sleeping on your back, do not worry, --- you are not doing anything to harm your baby. Return it to your side. Moreover, in later pregnancy, in which the stomach is enlarged, along with other conditions such as cramps, frequent urination, false contractions, your baby is kicking the stomach, a sense of increased stomach acid that will cause the mother would wake up several times at night so she is definitely going to change sleeping position and therefore automatically a few times so do not sleep on their backs.

Tip: To sleep on his side a more comfortable put a pillow between your knees and your back one. Or you can buy special pillows for pregnant women.
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Friday, December 10, 2010

If you are in doubt whether you are pregnant?

If you are in doubt whether you are pregnant? 
In early pregnancy there are signs and symptoms that occur early, - you try to find out whether the signs / symptoms have on you.

Some of the symptoms that occur early in pregnancy:

• Not getting your period / menstruation. This is because the lining of the uterus is prepared for pregnancy. It is important to know the first day of last period, which can determine the approximate age of pregnancy and childbirth. Keep in mind that not getting your period but as a sign of early pregnancy can also be caused by something else.

• Nausea and vomiting. Occur because of hormonal changes. Known as "morning sickness" because of nausea and vomiting often occur in the morning in the first months of pregnancy.

• Frequent urination / urination. Occurred because bladder pressure by the enlarged uterus. Complaints will usually be reduced in pregnancy after 12 weeks and re-emerges after 28 weeks gestation.

• Cravings. Want a certain makanan2, occurring in the first few months.

• Other signs, such as breast enlargement hard, enlarged nipples, darker sometimes feels itchy and sore.

Every woman has symptoms that vary some mild, some are heavy but do not have any complaints. When the symptoms above do not have to you, then you can verify with other test, because every pregnant woman have a complaint and different symptoms.

To ensure your pregnancy, then you can test the urine. Tools for urine test can be found in pharmacies and you can do this test yourself at home.

On examination the urine test is to measure the levels of HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) hormone produced by the placenta and will increase in the urine and blood during the first week after conception.
In using these tests look at the instructions, and the most accurate and done in the morning, because this hormone increases the amount in the morning.

If still in doubt consult your doctor. Doctors will be able to confirm your pregnancy with ultrasound (ultrasonography), found a picture of the fetus.
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