WHEN pregnant every woman experiencing weight gain. Keep in mind, however, increase the weight of not more than 18 kg. Why?If you are pregnant right now, immediately weighed. Is it still within normal limits? In fact there is no standard rule about how an increase in maternal weight during pregnancy. In other words, every pregnant woman may experience different increases.
However, recent studies suggest that in the United Pregnant Women monitor weight gain to no more than 18 pounds. The reason is, if more than that, he doubled risk of giving birth big babies. The baby is great according to the Association of American Obstetrics and Gynecology is a baby weighing 4 kilograms or more. While the WHO says, the average weight and normal healthy baby at birth is 3.2 kilograms.
In a study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, researchers involve participants more than 40,000 American women and their babies. Once analyzed, data showed that one in five women experienced an increase in excess weight during pregnancy, which make it risky double big baby.
The case of gestational diabetes (diabetes caused by pregnancy) is also often the cause of babies are born with excess weight. However, other facts in this study revealed that the pregnant women increased more than 18 pounds still great potential to have the baby even if he did not have gestational diabetes.
"Given the number of women who experience an increase in weight of more than 18 pounds during pregnancy, the advice to avoid obesity during pregnancy is an important health messages to be distributed," said Dr. Teresa Hillier, a staff researcher of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon.
Hillier insisted, pregnant women that excess weight increases risk having a large baby, which also means the baby's future risk grows with the problem of being overweight or obese. For pregnant women, the fetus is too big a risk complicates the process of birth, such as increasing the possibility tear or vaginal bleeding, and the possibility to give birth by cesarean section. While the fetus itself at risk of "stuck" in the shoulder or collarbone broken during delivery.
In these studies, Hiller and his team analyzed data from 41,540 medical records of women who gave birth in Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii in the period 1995-2003. A total of gestational diabetes is detected and as much as 5.4 percent of which is handled through diet, exercise, and if necessary be given insulin to control blood sugar levels.
Overall, as many as 20 percent of the pregnant women gained weight more than 18 pounds of baby. While pregnant women with normal body weight increase in the number of babies less than 12 percent.
The most high-risk groups is that pregnant women weight increased more than 18 kg and gestational diabetes, which is nearly 30 percent of this group of big babies. While the normal weight as well pregnant women diabetes who gave birth to a large number of only 13.5 percent range.
Researchers reveal, these findings suggest women should avoid excessive weight increase during pregnancy and pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes, also should try to keep weight gain no more than 18 pounds.
Case of body weight increase during pregnancy had continued to increase during the last two decades, and researchers speculate that it is likely related to the obesity epidemic that occurred since childhood.
This DURING pregnant women who have a history of diabetes tended to anxiety because of the mention of the baby will be born with excess weight. This condition can be overcome provided the pregnant woman can control their blood sugar levels.Dr. Eliezer Shalev and her colleagues from Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel studied pregnant women with diabetes. The study, published journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, involved 134 pregnant women who were divided into two groups. The first group of 67 people, not people with diabetes and the second group 53 pregnant women with diabetes. In the group of women with diabetes, blood sugar levels closely monitored so that the blood sugar level was always normal scale.
The results found an average weight of newborns between the two groups is not much different. A total of 11 births of all respondents have a baby weighing no more than 4 pounds, which can be said normal weight babies. Hence Shalev suggested mothers with diabetes following the proper diet, which can keep blood sugar levels during pregnancy.
If you feel so tired to take care your newborn baby, may be advice from Dr. William C. Dement, a sleep physician and specialist,need to be implemented to your activities. Parents (especially mothers) who had just had a baby, usually sleep-deprived for two hours each night until the baby was five months old. Then after five months to two years old child, parents usually lack of sleep for an hour every night. But all can be solved by following your baby's sleep pattern.Average total length of the newborn is sleeping 16-19 hours a day. But, every time sleep time was not long. Moreover, the newborn sleep cycles are still affected his habit when in the womb, where he actually slept more during the day and vice verse is more active at night. As a result, the mother had so often wake up at night.
Breastfed babies are only going to get up every one or two hours to breastfeed. The reason is because the breast milk itself are already 'half' digested, making it easier and more quickly absorbed by the baby's digestion. But the result, the child will quickly and woke up hungry. Therefore, mothers who breastfeed tend to be more or less sleep than women who give their babies formula milk at night.
This is one form of 'struggle' to be done to give exclusive breastfeeding mothers to their babies. While infants who drink formula, it usually will sleep longer, about 3-4 hours, this is because the infant digestive tract more slowly digested. Fortunately, once the age of three months, your baby will sleep longer at night. If awake, at most only one or two trips during the night.
To note, the mother's condition of constant sleep deprivation make body feels sore, weak, tired, and lethargic, reflexes also tend to decrease. Lack of sleep can also lower the body resistance. Fortunately, physical fatigue will be a little 'relieved' when you can lay down and relax for a moment. Unfortunately, this does not apply to mental fatigue.
A very influential part of the brain controls your ability to speak, remember, concentrate and pay attention to, and solve the problem, it will not function properly if you do not really sleep with enough.
As a result, lack of sleep cause you to easily forget, hard to concentrate, moody, more sensitive than usual and may even be difficult to choose the words while talking. Sleep deprivation was also able to become one of the factors (in addition to hormonal factors) causes the baby blues in the mother
In fact many benefits for breastfeeding mothers. However, breastfeeding rates in develop countries, according to UNICEF data (2005) only 40 percent. This amount is of course concern since breast milk is necessary for the development of infant brain and the immune body.
Benefits of breastfeeding for mothers, such as: reducing the amount of blood that came out after the delivery, content and lower abdomen is also much faster to shrink back to normal form, nursing mothers can drain more calories, it will recover more quickly to pre-pregnancy weight.
It also reduces the possibility of pregnancy again, reducing the possibility of suffering from osteoporosis, and reduce the possibility of ovarian cancer and breast cancer.
In order to give breastfeeding mothers, the mother's psychological condition must be calm. For that, necessary support and family environment for breastfeeding went smoothly. Father's role, such as creating conducive atmosphere of the house, encouraging mothers to breastfeed and help in practical matters. It will be very helpful.
Early initiation of breastfeeding (EIB) as an initial step will facilitate breastfeeding next feeding. "Once the baby is born, after the umbilical cord was cut, immediately placed on the mother's chest. The baby will feed itself.
EVEN bulge stomach is, some pregnant women often wear high heels to enhance your appearance. In fact, sometimes the safety of themselves less attention. Moms ! Do not torture yourself! If it does not feel comfortable, why should be enforced?Big changes happening
One significant change during pregnancy is a change in the muscle and bone system as a buffer body. Additions include elements of body mass or body fluid density structure, whether it comes from the fetus or the mother's own body.
Women who are fit body before she was pregnant, generally can tolerate these changes well. Unlike the people who do not fit, such as the woman who left office early and leave late, and who do not regularly exercise. Although this office lady outwardly healthy, but it really does not fit her body.
When pregnant, the uterus will be large and growing muscles of the abdominal wall was increasingly stretched. At that time, the pregnant women center of gravity will shift. Posture will also experience a change in which the shoulders would be like stuck to the back and head until his neck will be more swing forward for balance.
Furthermore, the veins that binds joints will loosen with age pregnancy. Coupled with the depletion of calcium during pregnancy, the muscles that would have been a very big burden during pregnancy.
If Wear High Heels
When pregnant women wearing high heels shoes, there is also a shift in the pivot. If the original is the pivot on the heel and then forwarded to the muscles of the back leg (calf) and back - primarily while standing and walking - so by using high heels shoes that point in the middle of the resultant of the force received by the heel and the front third soles of the feet. This causes the muscles that "forced" to continue stepping stones to the anterior lower leg will be fatigue (feeling tired).
Usually, high heels pregnant women users will feel the fatigue in the legs and back. Fatigue until the numbness is directly proportional to the high heel shoes. Heels high heels better choose a broad base and not too high, about 3-4 cm.
At the stature fit pregnant women, it is possible that muscle fatigue occurs very minimal. Because the muscles are fit pregnant women already trained.
Use But Body Must Fit
So if the expectant mother is accustomed to wearing high heels and diligent exercise before, the use of high heels will be very little affect muscle and bone. Well, this kind pregnant women can still use the high heels shoes.
But it is strongly recommended for untrained pregnant women to avoid the use of high heels so that the muscles are not forced to buffer the body causing excessive inconvenience others.
Mean age of pregnancy increases the burden that must be taken by pregnant women. Until the age of 5-6 months of pregnancy, one can still be seen pregnant women gracefully with her high heels. But afterwards, it would be nice and comfortable if pregnant women not use high heels until the end of her pregnancy.
Terms of Shoes for pregnant women
- Does not increase Workload muscle
- Not easy to cause injury
- Fit to increase the burden pregnant women
- Terms of shoes above are not likely to be found in high heels shoes. Sneakers, flat shoes, sandals rubber mat will be pregnant women shoe needs. However, if high heels into something that can not be separated then choose heel shoes no more than 3 cm, with a wide heel tread.
Pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) that affects about 75% of women of childbearing age is one form of mental health disorders related to women's reproductive cycle. Modern contraceptive pill can be an alternative relieve the symptoms of PMS.PMS symptoms include physical and psychological symptoms. Physical symptoms are usually fatigue, weakness, lethargy, headache, breast pain, abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, sweating, appetite disorders and sexual desire disorders. Psychological symptoms of melancholy, irritability, anxiety, concentration problems, loss of interest, and sleep disorders.
These symptoms appear because in the days before the menstrual hormonal changes in women's bodies.
To cope with PMS, can be done through medical and non-medical therapies. One non-medical measures recommended by expert is charting method. It was a production diary, which details a variety of symptoms before menstruation.
The method helps a woman to recognize the changes that happened to her throughout the menstrual cycle. Thus, in the next month a woman can better anticipate the physical and psychological disorders experienced in the days before menstruation.
Medical therapy to cope with PMS can be done partly by hormone therapy. For that, the modern contraceptive pill can be an alternative therapy.
Technological developments have produced contraceptive pill with drospirenone active substances that are not only useful for managing the pregnancy, but also overcome the problem of STDs.
Drospirenone, is a substance that has properties antimineralocortikoid. The Properties may reduce the symptoms of PMS such as feeling full in the stomach / bloating, improve your mood (mood) and the complaints other STDs. These benefits are already proven through various studies.
In developed countries modern contraceptive pills are commonly used to treat PMS cases.
There are many factors that can affect the brain during early development, such as; love, nutrition, genes, stimulation, feedback, challenge, and the arts. Own brain growth began in the pre-natal (before birth), since the first trimester, and continuing until the post-natal (after birth).
Nutrients that can be obtained from the breast milk the baby, especially when he got milk from the EIB (Early Initiation of breastfeeding) can help develop optimally. Breast Milk is the best single food that can satisfy all the needs of the baby growing up. Especially when he was given exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months. Breast milk contains many nutrients and essential nutrients for health and baby's intelligence.
Milk itself has a wide range of varied content in each of the mother, depending on the mother's diet, nutrition level of the mother, and when he gave milk to the baby. Described by Dr. Jeanne Ross SpA Tikoalu of breast milk production depends on the number of mothers breastfeeding frequency. More and more mothers breastfeed the baby, the more the mother's milk is produced. This is a chain that goes naturally in the body of the mother, when breast milk in the breast is reduced, will automatically send signals to the brain to produce more. In addition, the amount of fluid intake of the mother also helped determine the volume of the mother's milk.
When breastfeeding, the mother would need sufficient nutrition and quality. Sometimes, so the focus to provide the best for the baby, parents tend to concentrate on quantity, but quality is important too. Malnourished mothers can not feed your baby with the best quality. So, for the sake of the child, it is important to notice nourished mothers and what he ate.
The nutrients needed by a mother who is breast-feeding is calcium, zinc, magnesium, vitamin B6, and folate. Ingredients are important for the development of the baby, as well as a substance that helps the recovery of the mother after the birth. These nutrients can be obtained from the intake of solid food daily, also assisted with the help of micronutrition can also get a special milk in nursing mothers.