Control Weight During Pregnancy

May 29th, 2009

It is important to control pregnant woman’s body weight during pregnancy in the standard range.General recommendations of weight during pregnancy to allow increase about 12 kg (or 10-14 kg).If the pregnancy is divided into three phases, the best result is weight gain 2kg during the first phase, 5kg during the second phase and 5kg during the third stage.

The women of original weight at this time may increase the nutritional intake, but the obese women don’t lose weight at this time.

Pregnant women seem to fall into two categories where weight is concerned. Some take advantage of pregnancy as a time to eat anything they want with no concern about gaining weight. Others obsess over every bite of food and count every calorie. Neither of these is ideal. You can control your weight gain without starving yourself, or your baby.

Gaining too much weight while pregnant can pose health risks to both mom and baby, for example Pre eclampsia,Gestational Diabetes,Complications in labor and delivery,An increased need for interventions during delivery,A large baby, requiring help from a vacuum extraction, forceps or c section,etc.

Not gaining enough weight during pregnancy can be just as dangerous. A growing fetus needs proper nutrition for healthy growth. Dieting and restricting food intake can pose serious risks to the unborn baby, including low birth weight or Malnutrition. Pregnant women need to avoid becoming obsessed about weight gain. Unfortunately, the super model pregnant moms who seem to bounce back a week after the baby is born don’t help.

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Pregnancy ：Three Periods

May 26th, 2009

Pregnancy is typically broken into three periods, or trimesters, each of about three months. While there are no hard and fast rules, these distinctions are useful in describing the changes that take place over time.

  • the first trimester is from week 1 to the end of week 12
  • the second trimester is from week 13 to the end of week 26
  • the third trimester is from week 27 to the end of the pregnancy

The First Trimester

During the first 3 months of pregnancy is the embryo stage. The the size of embryos is about mung bean size, but some of the major fetal organs such as brain, eyes, spine, liver, arms and legs have begun to develop, the heart started beating.

Morning sickness can occur in about seventy percent of all pregnant women and typically improves after the first trimester.

In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy the nipples and areolas darken due to a temporary increase in hormones.

Most miscarriages occur during this period.

The Second Trimester

Months 4 through 6 of the pregnancy are called the second trimester.

In the second phase, pregnant women can feel activity of the fetus in the ventral.

In the 20th week the uterus, the muscular organ that holds the developing fetus, can expand up to 20 times its normal size during pregnancy.

Most women feel more energized in this period, and begin to put on weight as the symptoms of morning sickness subside and eventually fade away.

Planned and benign prenatal education can be implemented, but the focus should be paid attention to the protection of the fetus.

The Third Trimester

The last 3 to 4 months is the third trimester of fetal development. In the third stage, the fetus continued to increase body weight, fetal lung development has been improved to breathe after birth.

The important thing is to do a good job of preparation for childbirth.It is during this time that a baby born prematurely may survive. The use of modern medical intensive care technology has greatly increased the probability of premature babies surviving, and has pushed back the boundary of viability to much earlier dates than would be possible without assistance. In spite of these developments, premature birth remains a major threat to the fetus, and may result in ill-health in later life, even if the baby survives.

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