Planning a Healthy Pregnancy

Before 1998, each year 4,130 babies born in the United States with the nerve tube defect and its nearly 1,200 died. Diseases nerve tube defect is more known as a type of disease spina bifida and anensefalus.
Why this happens?

After research conducted, it appears that this disease occurs due to negligence in the prospective mother's pregnancy they prepare well, and even since before conception occurs. So, what will we do to avoid this? What tips for planning healthy pregnancy ? More

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Between the Intelligence and Pregnancy Mother

Professor Kinsley of the University of Richmond, said the changes in the hormones of pregnancy will protect the brain. Hormones, including hormones, including estrogen, which is known to protect the effect of protecting the surface of nerve in the brain, increasing the efficiency and ingenuity in a mother.

"If a mother thinks about the pregnancy, they usually think about what is happening with the baby and the mother from the neck down. Rarely think that the hormone will affect the mother's brain, "The Kinsley.

During this research is done on female mice. From research that mice that have been childless recall a more sharply compared with mice that had not previously have a child.

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Weight Loss IDEAL WHEN pregnant

To get the ideal body weight when pregnant, you should reach the ideal body weight before pregnancy (BB = Highest ideal body - 110). Why?

During pregnancy will be increased the body weight between 6.5 - 15 kg, or an average of 11 kg. If you weight less, then you must add to the number of your own lack of weight. Similarly vice versa.



While pregnant, does not mean you can eat as you eat or share with 2 times. Because can excess body weight, and this can cause various complications during pregnancy, such as high blood tension and heart.

Besides, can also increase the risk of giving birth through surgery Caesar. The reason, fiber-fiber muscle womb work less efficiently because of piles of fat, a result of this contraction is not strong enough uterus to remove the baby must be done so that the operation Caesar.

On the increase of body weight will be less at risk of babies with birth weight is low, while the mother is also at risk of suffering from bleeding during childbirth

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Determining Fertile Period for Knowing Ovulation Period

For you are the couple who want to quickly get the offspring, one of the main key is to know the fertile wife. Why?

Previously, the fertile period is the occurrence of discharge ovulasi or egg cell that is ready to be fertilized sperm. When you copulate with a partner, likely a pregnancy occurs. Beyond that, your hope to pregnancy is not occured. Because the age of the cells after the egg out of the ovary is approximately 1 - 2 days.

When the egg cell is not fertilized, the egg cell will die and hormones can not be maintained again, so that the uterus is ready to receive the results of fertilization will cave walls and out as menstrual blood.

There are several ways to detect the fertile period, including:

a) Calculating the Cycle of your menstruation
Generally, menstrual cycle approximately 21 - 35 days. Ovulasi period often occur in the 14 days before the first day of the menstrual future. Ovulasi is a time when the most fertile woman.

Period ovulasi = first day of last menstrual cycle, menstruation - 14

Fertile period of women is a time period that allows the occurrence of pregnancy if fertilization occurs. Fertile period of women 3 days before and after ovulasi.

b) Measure the Basal body temperature
Usually the body temperature increased about 0.5C, and after the period ovulasi because of the influence of hormones progesteron. Temperature measurements should be done at the time awake after sleep, before eating or before do activity. If you want to know coincidentally, do this for 6 months.

c) palpability Vagina (Billing method).
Towards the uterus mucus ovulasi usually quite thin and so if the two be touched with the fingers form a yarn and colored nodes.

d) Test Equipment Ovulasi.
When this sale is also free in apotek or drug store tools to assess the predictive test that is fertile fertile period or ovulasi. This test tool measures the degree to work with the hormone LH (Luteinizing hormone) produced during ovulasi. This tool is used as a pregnancy test but of course it costs more expensive.

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