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Foods to avoid during pregnancy

afni — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:01:12 +0000

Due to the natural body changes with pregnancy (especially in the region of the stomach and other digestive organs, which is invaded by the uterus), it is possible to be any kind of intolerance in relation to food in other circumstances were readily accepted .

1) Generally food often cause discomfort and strong spices of all kinds, fried foods, sausages, smoked or salted fish and elaborate cakes.

2) Reduce the consumption of all foods in third grade or no nutritional value, devitalized, demineralized and desvitaminizados.

3) A proper diet is necessary to prevent or reduce the consumption of substances that essentially contain caffeine, which excite and stimulate the body, without feeding.

When the mother drinks coffee, the caffeine level in the blood of the embryo reaches immediately the same as that of the mother but the mother while caffeine is eliminated over time, in the embryo, the removal process is much more slow. Caffeine ingested through coffee, tea, cocoa and cola.

Taken in quantities interferes with the growth and development of the fetus, causing low birth weight and increasing the risk of spontaneous abortions, and also to inhibit iron absorption by the body.

4) should also avoid all canned foods or complex preparation, because the more elaborate a meal, most impoverished in nutrients while increasing their calorie content.

5) It is desirable to reduce the consumption of spicy dishes; of raw or undercooked meat, remember that toxoplasmosis is transmitted from cat to cow, “which may cause food poisoning, such as shellfish, mussels or oysters.

6) and refined, processed foods, used to flavor and preserve, as well as colors and flavorings elaborate pastries or cakes.

7) You should also replace sugar with other sweeteners like honey or brown sugar.

As for alcohol, it is prudent to restrict consumption in particular the first three months of pregnancy, half a glass of wine for dinner can mean a moderate consumption is not harmful to the baby.

It is important to remember that alcohol passes rapidly into the placenta and that the issues involved are serious alcoholic mother to unborn child: 20% of children who have mental health problems are gestated by alcoholic mothers.

9) Avoid excessive sugar and salt (remember that most foods contain some salt).

10) Avoid foods that fatten.

11) Always pay attention to food labels, if they find that the product contains fats, dyes, salt, additives, excess calories, etc., Have them in moderation and “suspicion.”

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Light Stress Good for Unborn Babies

Jaques Rossoe — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:24:37 +0000

Light Stress Good for Unborn Babies

During pregnancy you can avoid stress and tension but should be avoided. But a little stress will not hurt. Indeed, American research shows that just may be good for the development of the brain of the unborn child. Reported that the British magazine New Scientist.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore studied 112 pregnant women three times during the last three months of their pregnancy. They asked the women whether they felt stressed and spent the movements of the fetuses identified. Two weeks after giving birth all babies were examined again.

Their findings showed that babies of women who were exposed to mild to moderate stress, were more mobile in the womb. After birth, they also showed that average well-developed brains had. Moreover, the active fetal birth a better control over their limbs than babies of stressed mothers less. Scientists believe the cause may be found in the stress hormone cortisol play a role. That plays a big role in developing brains.

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Skin problems when you’re pregnant

Dianaedward — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:27:43 +0000

As a woman, would you want to always look beautiful and attractive. Although at the time pregnant, you do not want to look bad. Whereas in the pregnancy there are some changes in your skin. Changes in skin during pregnancy due to hormonal changes or due to changes in body weight. For that, you should recognize these changes and how handling.

Melasma

Will usually arise brown blotches on the skin, especially in around the eyes, cheeks and upper lip close. This is due to hormonal changes that make your skin sensitive to sunlight. For maintenance, you can try using products that contain ingredients and materials stain erode like AHA, Hydroquinone and retinol after lactation. To stop during pregnancy, you should use sunscreen every’ll move out.

Stretch Mark

Signs usually appear reddish scar on the skin around the abdomen. This is caused by the widening of skin tissue due to the sudden need to support the additional load. For maintenance, you can not totally eliminate but at least reduced. You can use a moisturizer such as olive oil or vitamin E oil during and after pregnancy. In order to reduce the risk of stretch marks, you should watch your weight because it is usually on body weight during pregnancy will increase dramatically.

Acne

If you do not usually have acne, you may be pregnant at the time will be experiencing it. This is due to hormonal changes in your body and this includes a natural thing. For treatment, you should not carelessly use drugs that contain antibiotics, BHA and AHA.

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Post-birth, When should exercise

Dianaedward — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:03:34 +0000

After a normal birth mother could be doing mild exercise. For mothers who gave birth to a fault, mild exercise can be done after birth or 10 days after the injury improved. Start with the sports movements are slow, especially if you are not a lot of exercise during pregnancy.

Select a walk before the start of the program, for example in the morning. On foot to make the blood circulation going well. On foot it is a practical exercise, inexpensive, and simple and can be done anywhere. These activities can burn as many as 120-180 calories. In order to obtain optimal results, you should do it continuously for 15-30 minutes.

Walk with ease, and stop giving birth if the stitches used to hurt. In addition, when walking, the road forget to breathe at regular intervals to avoid tiredness. Gradually increase the exercise program not only walk, such as gymnastics.

Sports always begins with the heating and cooling end with. We recommend that you consult with your doctor to reduce the risk of unwanted, on the other side of postpartum mothers are advised not to exercise too much.

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Sex & Pregnancy

baby West — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:19:06 +0000

Many women live a doubt about having sex during pregnancy. There are no medical reasons not to have sex during your pregnancy. You can just get into bed without any risk to your baby. The baby is protected by the membranes and amniotic fluid. Indeed sex keeps your pelvis smooth, has advantages in childbirth. Also having orgasm is no problem. The contraction of the uterus is also not ready when you come. Sex is possible to break the membranes.

Need for sex

There are no medical reasons for you to abstain from sex. That is a good thing for 9 months is long. Is particularly important to trust your instincts. If you feel you can. On the other hand, it is not obligatory. During pregnancy is hearing your whole household moon on his head. Your body is changing rapidly. You need to sex this will be different than normal. Talk about even with your partner.
The first 3 months

In the first three months, most women need less sex than normal. They must adjust to their new situatation. The hormones play, including what leads to irritability, nausea and even depression. It would also not say that you do not need to have sex or you weird if you do just makes love. until the eighth month From the fourth to the eighth month, the need for sex often sharply again. Again hormone. Sometimes you make the hormomen that much easier to climax. eighth and ninth months In these months, the need for sex sometimes books. Although opinions differ in this period can best use a condom. (also see risks)

Risks

Until the membranes have broken the baby is no risk and you can go to bed together. About sex in the last two months of pregnancy differences of opinion a bit. Why you in this months best use condoms when you go to bed together. In the 8th and 9th months would be a risco that the baby infection rises. Furthermore, in this months the risk that the hormone prostaglandin in semen excites the ordered.

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Development of Embryo Growth

baby West — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:00:22 +0000

pregnancy test if you get that far, the woman can hardly keep for themselves: pregnant! Who strong in character, might pretend nothing is wrong. But how do you keep it for you if you frequently sick or any invitation to turn because of large fatigue? A small comfort that these symptoms usually after the first three months to disappear. Even by DUSA bite . The point is that the embryo goes through a growth spurt, and that does not come. NÃ ¡the first three months, the belly grow significantly, to around the first twenty weeks ‘butterflies’ feeling and not just growing the baby, but also the parents-to a big event here!

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Alcohol Threshold

baby West — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:38:47 +0000

It is difficult to set a threshold dose or a dose limit beyond which the drinker is considered excessive drinker, alcoholic or alcohol-dependent. Very briefly, alcohol dependence or alcohol abuse begins when the amount of alcohol ingested is greater than what the body can tolerate, metabolize or oxidize. A consumption of more than four “cups” of alcohol (wine, beer or hard liquor) three times per week in all pathological cases. This concept of threshold dose or maximum dose of alcohol is still questionable because it ignores factors of individual tolerance and sensitivity to the harmful effects of ethanol. The effects of a single ingestion of alcohol on the body vary from one topic to another: the alcohol (alcohol in the blood) induced by alcohol intake and risk of dependence vary depending on the volume of body weight, eating habits and repetitive or isolated from the alcohol. The ingestion of alcohol in large quantities, still harmful, are particularly toxic in pregnancy, in children and adolescents and the elderly.

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Pregnancy and drugs

Ann Brown — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:34:02 +0000

The need to prescribe drugs to any young woman asks the doctor, be it clinical or specialist gynecologist, problems regarding the possibility of a pregnant woman found in front, who may or may not know your situation. What would obey such a problem?

Do not forget that when given a drug to a pregnant mother, it also acts, in a variable manner, on the embryo or fetus, who is a subject in active, continuous and dynamic change, physiological characteristics make it particularly sensitive to the action of all substances which cross the placenta. That is why it is essential to tell your physician the possibility or the certainty of a pregnancy, if he omitted question about it. We know today that many factors contribute to the negativity that the drugs administered to pregnant women can have on the unborn baby.

Among them we must rank the anatomical and functional characteristics of it’s own time when you are given medicines whose chemical characteristics are also vital. It is based on the foregoing, the doctor will select the type, style, time and dose of therapy chosen. Only someone who is thoroughly familiar with the biological conditions of the mother-child unit can bring to conclusion this process which seeks the good health of the mother should not cause harm to unborn child. Must be inferred from this that the self-medication, which is always risky for anyone who carries out, this is doubly damaging, the possible effect on the mother, compounded by the harmful action of a being in training, who by this condition is highly sensitive activity against external agents.

We believe it may be useful for understanding the influence of drugs on being pregnant, analyze what happens at different stages of gestation, from conception until birth. The embryonic period encompasses the first eight weeks and is characterized by rapid differentiation to acquire most of the anatomical features of the human species. It is the stage of formation of: organ par excellence, hence the action of external agents, both chemical (drugs) and physical (X-rays) can cause birth defects.

We had already found that the ability to produce such damage (teratogenicity), varied not only according to the type of drug, but also and especially in relation to the timing of development in which he played. Thus during the first two weeks, or until the implantation of the egg or zygote, there seems to be a low susceptibility to drug action, judging from the little evidence gathered in connection with the production of malformations, could it be because the action foreign agent can cause death of the zygote.

It was noted, however, that mothers who consumed lysergic acid during the period immediately following conception, gave birth to babies with malformations in the limbs, this is due to the action that this drug has on the chromosomes (particles of the nucleus carry the genes of heredity). By nesting the embryo in the uterus, at the end of the second week begins the period of very rapid differentiation in the growth of many vital organs. The same is continued until the eighth week and is characterized by a high sensitivity on the part of the embryo to the action of drugs administered to pregnant women, who often ignores his status.

Numerous and important organs may be affected in their development, thus giving rise to congenital malformations. Such is the case of central nervous system, some organs of the senses (sight and hearing), heart, limbs and external genitalia. The negative action can affect several organs are fully developed at that time: the case of rubella virus that can affect both the heart, eyes and ears. In other situations the action is specific to particular organs, as with thalidomide (nervous system depressant), which interferes with the development of arms and legs, while respecting the overall growth and the nervous system and circulatory system.

We recall that in the 60s in Germany alone, were born more than seven thousand children with malformations due to consumption of this drug by their mothers in the first two months of pregnancy. In the fetal period, which extends from the eighth week until birth, to complete the development of structures, differentiating the various functions of many organs, which highlights the nervous system and genital tract, which adopts and characteristics of each sex. External agents can then further affect the growth and function of organs, systems and devices, with less chance of malformation.

As you can see, the period of greatest risk in relation to the possibilities of actions harmful to the child in his gestation period corresponds to the first weeks of a pregnancy can still be ignored. We reiterate therefore that it is absolutely essential to avoid any potential self-medication by pregnant as a result to be all women of childbearing age. Confirmed pregnancy should only be used prescription medications by physicians, which should always be advised of this situation when radiological studies indicate start drug treatments.

These tips are part of the Childcare antenatal, ie that branch of medicine that deals with the child from conception until birth, always keeping in mind that no values above life itself and health, considered both as biological, such as affective, social and spiritual.