Pregnancy

How do you know when you are pregnant? The first sign of pregnancy is when you miss your period, then you will start to experience morning sickness most women have a 28 days period cycle while some women don’t. The moment you find out that you are pregnant you should go seek medical care (which is called prenatal care) to ensure that you and the baby will have a healthy pregnancy. You can either go to your private doctor or a nearby clinic.

Prenatal care is very important especially if this is your first child you will need to know what kind of changes your body will be going though. Prenatal care will help to prevent any kind of complications during birth. The physicians will advice you as to how to maintain a healthy diet during the pregnancy. Some women get crave for certain food, personally with my first child I didn’t really  get any, but with my second I crave for water I would drink water the whole day and hardly eat any food.

Prenatal care is necessary especially if you have Diabetes, or high blood pressure. If you have any of those diseases you should inform your physician about it because it can definitely cause complication at child birth. Women with Diabetes or Heart Diseases can cause high-risk pregnancy could experience an increase risk of preterm labor.

Here are some of the habits you should avoid doing during pregnancy, smoking, taking drugs, and drinking alcohol because it can affect your unborn child. If you want to know the sex of your child you can do an ultrasound. Physicians do ultrasound to determine how much baby you are carrying also show you how the baby is developing. Here are a few of the most frequent complication during child birth, breach birth, the cord raped around the baby’s neck, the baby loosing air and If your child is taking too long to come out.

As the child begins to develop your belly become bigger. Most women feet will become swollen but don’t worry its common in pregnant women so you must elevate your feet on the sofa if possible when sitting down. Every time I got pregnant I notice that there was a mark from my navel to the top of my vagina its looks like a line. Normally women give birth on the ninth month however a woman can give birth on the seventh month, which is called premature labor.

There are three stages in labor. The first sign of labor is when your water is broken then, contraction that causes progressive changes in the cervix and ends when the cervix is fully dilated. However the second stage begins as soon as you are fully dilated and then ends with the birth of the child. Finally the last stage is after the birth of the child then the separation and subsequent delivering the placenta.