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10 moment during pregnancy
Pregnancy is a wonderful experience to beat all the feelings you’ve experienced. You were determined to prepare as best as possible, by reading the pregnancy books and ask friends or family who’ve been through. But sometimes, there are still some facts about pregnancy that escapes from your knowledge.
1. It’s weird when someone stroked or touched your stomach. When we stroked or gently scratching at the abdomen during pregnancy, this baby is part of the bonding between baby and the mother. Or when you will spontaneously stroked the belly without a specific purpose. However, if the conduct of others, even though in-law or brother, it must be very strange. Not infrequently caress or touch the belly it feels very uncomfortable for you.
2. You will wake up seven times a night to urinate. This also occurs in women who have a habit of sleeping soundly, or who do not have a tendency to wake up at night once.
3. Whatever you use, ointments, lotions, and creams to remove stretch marks, still did not work. Stretch marks will remain visible in the third trimester. Hold to your hand does not continue to scratch the skin that feels taut stomach.
4. Pregnancy makes your breasts more sensitive. Because of hormonal changes, breast milk began to fill, and nipples become more sensitive and easily bruised. Sometimes even a shower with water from the shower can make breasts feel tingling because drops of water from the shower.
5. Sometimes it come a big red spots all over the body. In some cases there is a pregnancy disease called Pruritic Urticarial Papules and plaques of Pregnancy. This disease causes swelling and redness that spreads throughout the body.
6. It felt like hugging a doctor who gives you an epidural injection to reduce the pain of contractions before the birth. Maybe you do not want to insist there are drugs pain relief during contractions. But when the pain was unbearable, and the doctor who injected the epidural, your doctor will look like a god savior.
7. Nausea, vomiting all the time in the first trimester of pregnancy. In fact, you feel like dying just because every moment feels like throwing up. Just enjoy this moment, because of nausea and vomiting (morning sickness) it will disappear in the second trimester.
8. Loss of access to drinking coffee is a habit in the morning, cheese, or sushi. Why? Of course you want your baby to be healthier. Sushi (which uses raw fish) can increase Toxoplasma disease risk. Coffee will only make the stomach feel bloated, and increase the frequency to the bathroom.
9. You’ll get used to the ritual of vaginal examinations, breast, stomach, and others. And maybe once you are anti went to the doctor, even when you’re having a bad cold, white, or persistent headache.
10. Used again to have sex with her husband. In some women, birth trauma makes them anti intimate relationship in their minds to make them pregnant again, and struggling between life and death during childbirth. At least, you will need time 4 weeks after the first intercourse post delivery, to truly enjoy sex.
Overcoming Leg Cramps in Pregnant women
Pain in the leg cramps is not very comfortable. Leg cramps often occur in pregnant women. Why does this happen? What can be done to deal with it?
There are several theories about the cause of leg cramps in pregnant women. The first is that the feet are tired of having to bear the burden of gaining weight because of pregnancy. Therefore, the leg cramps occur in the second trimester and get worse when the final trimester. Another reason for lack of blood flow is to the bottom of the body that is hampered by the pregnancy. Increased weight and pressure of pregnancy in the uterus area blocking blood flow to the lower body. Another theory suggests that the future mother of mineral deficiency in the body, such as calcium, potassium, and magnesium. The study says that this mineral deficiency can cause cramping in the legs.
To assist the pregnant mother to be more comfortable, you can do these tips from Susan Warhus MD from his book titled Darn Good Advice: Pregnancy following:
* We’re cramping legs, straighten your legs and leg movement. Keep fingertips pointing upward, and the heel downward. This will stretch your calf muscles.
* Do not push your fingers pointing down as it would aggravate the cramps in the legs.
* Massage gently with the direction of the calf to the bottom of the foot.
* If no, provide heating in the calf and lower leg after leg cramps subsided.
* Avoid standing for long periods to prevent leg cramps.
* Do not fold your legs when sitting because it will inhibit blood flow to the legs.
* Perform a safe exercise for pregnant women, such as walking.
* Occasionally doing rounds in the direction of the foot joints round the clock and vice versa to improve the mobility and flexibility.
* Add water intake to prevent dehydration.
* Add menu containing calcium, like milk, yogurt, cheese, and green leafy vegetables.
* / Create one banana per day to increase the intake of natural potassium.
* Ask your doctor, whether to increase the intake of calcium / magnesium at night.