Probing baby

Receptions Leopold - a special probing, which carries a doctor to determine the location of the fetus in the uterus. If the doctor makes such manipulations, ask him how is the fruit.

How to find out the position of the fetus?

Sometimes mums forget that they are the best experts on how the fetus is inside them. All it needs to do - is to pay attention to how the child moves, and where this movement is felt - for example, where a woman feels strong aftershocks, located legs baby.

Positive pregnancy test

Make a pregnancy test Pregnancy tests - early diagnosis   - not difficult. Before you do a pregnancy test, it is necessary to study in detail the instructions to not make small mistakes.

First you need to choose and buy a test. All the tests are the same, only different names, brand and price. You can buy a package of several tests, as many women prefer to confirm the first result after a few days.

Instruction most tests require that the urine collected in the morning of the day that was to begin in the subsequent month or after that day. The farther pregnancy develops, the greater and more gonadotropin accumulates in the blood. However, a blood test is more accurate than a urine test.

Fetal heartbeat

The heart begins to beat the baby in the first trimester. Of course, this can not be heard even with Doppler before the ninth - tenth week of pregnancy, and sometimes even to the twelfth - fourteenth week. The way the heart beats baby called fetal heart, it is quite fast, faster than an adult. It beats at a rate of 180 beats per minute, somewhere in the twelfth week at a rate of 120-160 beats per minute and remains so during the entire period of gestation.

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First trimester - a time of growth of the baby. Studying the ultrasound pictures, you'll be surprised how quickly moved the fruit from a point in a small fragment of the driving body with arms and legs.

X-ray flaw detector

For a long time it was thought that X-rays harmful to the fetus. Most pregnant women do not even think about how to make an X-ray. But there are times when the doctor may prescribe x-rays - but only when the benefits of x-ray outweigh the danger.

The two main things that should be taken into account in the study of X-ray:

• placement of X-ray (picture on the future should be clearly displayed area of ​​interest)
• gestational age.

If the x-ray was done 3-4 weeks after conception, the risk is almost zero, if the irradiation was used in all 10 rad. Irradiation of more than 10 Rad can cause miscarriage Miscarriage - is more common than you think . It is thought that at 10 I am glad there is some risk. At 18-27 weeks, the dose of irradiation should not be higher than 10 rad. After 28 weeks the risk of X-ray exposure has the same for both mother and unborn child. But less than 5 rad dose not cause any complications at any stage of pregnancy.

Questions that pregnant woman should ask prior to the X-ray:

• Maybe you can make any other test and not to resort to X-rays?
• What happens if I do not do an x-ray?
• Can you wait for the X-ray? (up to 20 weeks, or do it after the baby is born).

It is important that if a woman, no matter what period it was not urgently need to make an X-ray - it is better to do! If the work is connected with the X-ray of a pregnant, or other types of radiological examination as soon as possible to warn the leadership of their situation.

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