How to reduce delivery time

The tightening of the muscles of the pelvis reduces labor time.

It is not true that strengthening the pelvic muscles during childbirth harm, quite the contrary, researchers in this study encouraged the training during pregnancy.

Specialists believe that strengthening the pelvic muscles helps prevent urinary incontinence (urine leakage) and also favors the last mile of delivery, preventing it extends for more than an hour.

To carry out this research, involving 301 pregnant women, the

148 which made the exercises and the rest served as control group. The practices took place between 20 and 36 weeks of gestation and were taken every seven days during a period of sixty minutes.

The exercises were supervised by a physiotherapist and were intended to tighten the pelvic area and prevent urinary incontinence.

Multiple births

In some twin pregnancies: the cesarean section may be more advisable to ensure the health of mothers or babies. When it comes to three or more children, for example, obstetricians almost invariably opt for this method. They also recommend an intervention of this type if any of the following conditions:

• The first baby (who was playing before leaving) a breech or transverse position.

• The weight of children is more than 500 grams between them.

• One of the babies (or more) less than 1800 grams.

• difficulties also are common during childbirth. It is even possible that the doctor be unusually drawn to the second baby by caesarean section, although the first has already been born vaginally.

Hypertension in Pregnancy

Ten per cent of women have high blood pressure in pregnancy, changes that may occur, among other conditions, early delivery, low birth weight and fetal mortality. Hypertension more common in pregnancy as part of the syndrome called "preeclampsia".

Usually occurs after 20 weeks and is accompanied by proteinuria (presence of albumin in the urine) and high uric acid. Affected, especially women who expect their first child, especially the very young or older than 35 years. One form of preeclampsia, in which there is only hypertension and also show that after 20 weeks. typically occurs in women with advanced age and / or slightly obese.

Regarding the treatment, contrary to what was indicated before, it is very important that women do not abandon completely the salt. When blood pressure is slightly elevated, just bed rest to decrease.
However, when the minimum or diastolic 100 mm Hg and no other symptoms, such as fighting drugs methyldopa, a drug that does not produce malformations in the baby. It is appropriate to the intern when pregnant, in addition to 100 mm Hg at least, has proteinuria.

Healthy exercise for pregnant women

The delivery requires good physical shape. Among the more interesting exercises are swimming, walking and fitness specialist.

• The most convenient is swimming, a sport that refreshes, relaxes, improves blood circulation and strengthens muscles. In addition, loading the spine, which is enduring "overweight" from the belly.

• The walks are very pleasant if made by roads or streets with little movement of vehicles and off-hours power a day.

• In any case, women should listen to signals from the body and leave the exercise to the first sign of tiredness.

• When a child is not waiting good moment to begin a new sporting activity, or to engage in sports hard, all that compromise the abdominal muscles or entail risk of falls.

Against the pain of childbirth - Effectiveness guaranteed

Nobody doubts that the pain is a subjective experience. But that does not even possible to measure it with numbers. Since no long been known that the body defends itself from suffering stress and anxiety segregating betaendorfinas, some kind of opiate substances.

The higher the voltage, most of them run by the bloodstream. These opiates are used, therefore, to provide further evidence on the effectiveness of the courses prepartum. Dr. Calf of Bengoa, Chief of the Preparation for Parenting's Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid, has analyzed the amount of betaendorfinas he had in the blood of a significant number of pregnant women at some stage of trance.

And the result was that women who had made a preparation had a lower level of this substance that they had not done so. That is, living the process much more relaxed. The point is that besides the good influence of physical exercise, the information is a complete and effective "reassuring".

Being Mom from pregnancy

Pregnancy-even if it is the second-or third is always a new situation (no two identical), and the woman is in need of help and information. There are many fundamental issues that are unknown and which are very important, such as gymnastics for childbirth, for example.

At the time the test is positive, it will normally not know how to prevent birth defects, how to avoid abortions or what is the best diet. Therefore, the people involved in the preparation of pregnant women require that the teaching also covers these aspects and to give absolutely everywhere.

It is ideal that the teaching of postpartum is made across the board. In the third phase there must be physical and spirit, and knowledge about child care ... Care for the child is a great burden on women.
If they are to become more humanized childbirth in the future it will have to make them the same people who care for the mother who taught courses in preparation for motherhood.

This represents a radical change. It would be optimal for a small maternity, where the arrival of a new world will be able to live as a family event.
All these goals are fine, but to enable them to be effective it is necessary that the company is willing to cooperate. It is therefore important that. when future moms can not make the courses in their spare time, state enterprises and private offer facilities for pregnant women come in working hours.

Preparation for childbirth - Theory and Practice

Today, all courses in preparation for childbirth or motherhood have taken the best from each of the schools for pioneers and are a part of theoretical and physical training.

In the theoretical lessons are taught about the genitals, fertilization and the process of pregnancy. It also explains the contractions and the stages of birth, and there are some notions of paediatrics and child care. This time, in which women are very receptive to information, is used by instructors to further explain some basic knowledge of women's health, such as self breast for early detection of cancer, or contraception.

Breastfeeding is also a chapter on the formation of the expectant mother.
In the practical classes are taught relaxation, breathing and gymnastics. Each person uses the techniques of the school which has trained but, basically, are all simple, so that pregnant women can practice alone.

With gymnastics is intended to prepare the areas of the body that will withstand greater stress during childbirth. Breathing is a weapon that will help women to maintain calm and for good measure the force.

One of the most important objectives of the entire course of preparation that price is to serve as a forum for the pregnant woman who can express their fears, get rid of ancient myths, manage the anxiety that it produces its new status and prevent postpartum depression.

The presence of a psychologist to help prepare the change that represents the arrival of the baby is therefore absolutely imperative. Prepartum courses typically consist of ten lessons that are taught in as many weeks. Each class lasts, typically 2 hours. They usually start in the sixth or seventh month of pregnancy.

Childbirth does not hurt?

While there have always been attempts since to have an easy birth, no comprehensive methods have been developed to help nearly half of this century. The idea arose in the minds of the English physician Read served as a birth that, despite living in extremely precarious conditions, stating that "the confinement was not harm".

The women of this, of course, passed without the slightest problem, and this rare experience led to believe that Read only fear is the culprit of pain.
Fear creates muscle tension, and this pain. The suffering caused more fear, and fear more tension.

At the beginning of this vicious circle there is nothing more than a series of negative emotions. Read developed some techniques to overcome fear through explanatory talks about childbirth and relaxation.

At the same time, more or less, the Russians Platanov, Nicolaiev and Velvoski began using hypnosis to achieve painless childbirth. With the passage of time and would prefer to abandon this line to inform pregnant women about the whole process of childbirth. This aimed to eliminate their fears and negative perceptions and create positive conditioned reflexes. Thus was born the Russian school of obstetric psicoprofílaxis.

Another important figure in the preparation of the pregnant woman, Lamaze, learned this method at the beginning of the fifties and introduced it in France, adding relaxation and breathing in panting (currently sidelined).

In Argentina, Maternity Hospital British pioneered in this field. On the momentum of its then director, Dr. James Mac-Lean began its implementation in 1957. In that year there was another revolution: for the first time in this institution, a mother left the room at birth walking with her baby in her arms. A year earlier, Dr. Lamaze had issued an unforgettable way in the Argentine Medical Association.

The pain of childbirth - When to Treat?

When is it necessary to treat pain?
In medicine they say that the pain is better tolerated ... the pain of another. Nobody can get in the place of those who feel it is a unique experience and not transferable. At that time, the pain is just that person, that's why obstetricians are not shown inflexible when it comes to sedated.

The experience allows them to know when a birth is nearing the limit of their tolerance, either physical or psychological. In those situations turn to his art and his technique.

If the practitioner feels the pain stems from the facts, and normal physiological childbirth, administered a drug that produces a decreased sensitivity to pain, commonly known as analgesics (w: no; algesia: pain). In this way, although it does not disappear, at least until it fades as tolerable.

The question changes when it is necessary to perform a surgical procedure, however small it may be, known as episiotomy, or an act more as a caesarean section. In both cases were intentionally produced an incision in the maternal tissue and, of course, that causes pain, but this pain is different from the one that causes birth.

The woman is not ready for such interventions naturally, so we must eliminate it in full. In these situations are used anesthetics, which block all sensations. If the region is where the incision is small, anesthetized only that area and the art, easy to perform, is called locally. It is enough to inject a minimum amount of anesthetic solution for the pain disappear immediately.

When the region is to be extensive or deep anesthesia, using the same anesthetic solution, but is positioned in the vicinity of the nerves entering the spinal cord. In this way, it prevents access to all the feelings, even the motor (feel neither can move his legs, as in the epidural anesthesia is used in caesarean sections). The technique is more difficult and requires the participation of experienced hands (anesthesiologists).

Pregnancy as a couple is better

Both pregnant
Today, few people expect the baby arrives to begin exercising his new role of dedicated parents. The majority knows that a parent is not born of overnight and sought to prepare before. In addition, they are also aware that everything made by the couple during pregnancy will affect the welfare of their future child.

There are many things that can make a man waiting for the sweet:

•Support to the future mother at all times. The gestation usually produce big ups and downs in mood. There are days when women feel insecure and melancholy, and at such times is crucial to have the support of his partner.

•Participate in purchases of items of the future baby, helping women to perform the exercises in preparation for childbirth, accompanied on walks and visits to the gynecologist.

•Inform yourself about pregnancy and childbirth.

•Visiting a course of preparation for motherhood. Currently, most gynecologists are in favor of the presence of the father at birth. Even it is normal to seek their collaboration in controlling the contractions or in the observation of fetal monitoring, things that can not be done without knowing in advance how it develops childbirth. These courses also have another equally important goal: to clarify all doubts that arise and to dispel fears that could lead to the expected, also for men.

•Communicate with your baby. There are experts who claim
that the fetus had been stimulated with caresses and words a child is very healthy and safe.

•Finalize the preparations for delivery. Making the journey from home to motherhood at different times. Be aware of what is required "that day" (documents, calendar ...) and have everything ready in case an emergency occurs.

The disappointment of childbirth

But while hardly talk about it, there are also plenty of mothers who did not feel seized by the excitement to meet their outbreaks.
A fact quite normal, according to specialists. Why? The baby was born that has nothing to do with who has dreamed. Indeed, the flesh and blood is neither smiles nor strong. It is weeping, plaintiff has wrinkles and its ugly traits that are more harmonious.

The reality often turns into a disappointment tip that a sharp downturn to maternal self-esteem. Many times, when he saw this creature so young and weak, the esteem of women (in psychological terms, Narcicista) was damaged because it was unable to have that child dreamed.

What happens when the child is premature or suffers a disease? Specialists note that, if the newborn is brought to the incubator, as is often the case with those born prematurely, the mother is so afraid of losing that avoids maintain close contact with him. This should not be interpreted as a lack of love for the newborn, but as a defense mechanism.

In case of incurable disease, such as Down syndrome, a sense of failure experienced by the mother is very big. But, once accepted the problem,
frustration gives way to a strong protective instinct and a desire to fight impressive.

For several years now, the trend of midwives, gynecologists and neonatologists is that both the father and mother have contact as soon as possible with the newborn. It is known that in the first days of life will lay the foundation for the future relationship of parent and child.

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Placenta previa

It is located near the exit, below the baby.
Do not confuse the "previous placenta" with "placenta previa." The term refers to the previous location of the placenta over the baby: to be below him (with the pregnant woman in standing position) and it should leave first and then make way for baby. Previous only means that it is located in the uterus wall facing the pubis.

Different Ways
If completely blocked the exit, it is an "occlusive All"; if he does part of an "occlusive partial or marginal." In the latter two cases, the baby may be born leaving the placenta to get out of hand.
The placenta previa can cause bleeding during pregnancy or childbirth.

In the case of occlusive total imposes caesarean section. Many marginal placenta previa will run upwards during pregnancy and then cease to be the fourth or fifth month.

With regard to the placenta "above", is named as to which are attached to the anterior wall of the uterus (which coincides with the belly of the pregnant). It can be held high and nothing after, or are very low and after.
The same applies to those that adhere to the wall or the back side left and right. Those that are located on the roof of the parent (which are among the most common), obviously because they will never be pre definitely above the baby.

Prolactin: the hormone that produces milk

As its name indicates, pro (for), lactina (milk), is the female hormone prolactin stimulates milk secretion. Such is the case, that during pregnancy along with estrogen and progesterone, which prepares for the breast after birth it produces milk.

Throughout the pregnancy, the pituitary gland is responsible for segregating increasing amounts of prolactin. This tiny gland, behaves like a plant hormone, and is below the principal organs of the central nervous system, behind the nose and eyes, in the midline.

Beyond pregnancy, prolactin have an important complementary role in the regulation of ovarian cycle. Circle in the blood in very small quantities.

When this hormone is produced in excess, interferes with ovulation being responsible for menstrual irregularities. This is a pathological situation, which undoubtedly should be corrected.

The causes of these disorders are varied and include the intake of medicines digestive antinauseosos, tranquilizers and sedatives, as well as the use of birth control pills. The stress and hypothyroidism also cause hiperprolactemia, but there is also the home purely pituitary: prolactin increases in the presence of adenomas (small tumors not carcinogenic in the pituitary gland) or micro adenomas (microscopic tumors).

In these cases, treatment is medication that can suspend stimulate its production in excess, to correct the hypothyroidism, eliminate stress, or inhibit the operation of adenomas. Rarely should resort to intervention, as it usually is enough to administer drugs such as bromoergocriptina, or smoothness.

How to lose weight after childbirth

A little belly, lack of firmness on the thighs, legs slightly swollen, some kilos of more ... hair dry. The truth is that everything that was formed during nine months, is not removed in a single day. But do not worry, because with a little exercise, some creams, and a lot of record, these problems have a solution quickly and efficiently

We offer some tips to keep in mind. USAL and see the results.

First of all, it is extremely important to know that your skin needs water, much water. To revitalize the skin, there is nothing better than to apply every week, a cure hydration with a mask or spreading a thick layer of moisturizing cream act leaving ten minutes, and removing the surplus after this time.
With regard to physical exercise, the first few weeks should not be running, walking is an exercise but also very good, provided they undertake to step quicker and at least 30 minutes a day.
At approximately 8 weeks after delivery, it is possible to ride a bicycle. This exercise is ideal for tightening the thighs, preventing variceal and stimulate circulation.
It is also basic exercises for your feet, as it will be very tired, not only because they stop with your long periods of time, but also for the overweight that have endured for nine months of your pregnancy. An exercise for your feet very simple to make, is to shoot, pressing hard with the sole, a wooden roller or a ball. Rest your feet and legs loaded. In addition, massage stimulates the whole organism.
It is important to bear in mind that all products and anti-cellulite firming you use, you must enter your skin through a circular massage by hand, a brush or a roller, a circular shape. In this way, act faster and the results are optimal.
The hair! To revitalize the hair dry, you can use a mask properly after each wash.
And as the last council, and elementary to be very beautiful again, remember that wherever possible, you and your baby must rest at least half an hour in the open in the morning or at dusk. It will be very relaxing for both the reward and completely.

The power supply of the baby

If you are not any problem to carry out it, the power supply for breastfeeding is the healthiest for the baby and also, you believe an affective powerful link between him and your mom. The direct contact with the mom's skin helps to the development of the newly born one.

You are very important also that the baby embraces with your mouth the nipple and good part of the areola. The time of suckling should extend approximately during 15 minutes for chest, with a frequency of three hours between suck and suck (this is not strict). If the small one wants to follow succionando, even when you have finished feeding with the two chests, perhaps (it can be given from 30 to 60 ml of boiled water and cooled) enjoyment with the only succionar act or you be thirsty.

The breast milk shortcoming is not very frequent. However, the pediatrician (who will frequently check the increase of weight) will say if the quantity is enough or if you need to add you bottles. A fact that serve as reference is that the baby should usually wet between 6 and 8 daily diapers.

If you are necessary that the baby feeds with bottle, the pediatrician's instructions should be continued according to the quantities.

You are also to have the baby's higienizado (with water boiling) team in the cooler, with the clean tetinas face down inside the baby bottle. To prepare the milk, you are to use the suitable measures and to even the powder with a knife. More quantity of powder should never be added because you would concentrate the milk, what can be dangerous. You should finally always become agitated the mixture until they are not lumps, and to control the hole of the tetina.

The turn to house after the childbirth

The desired moment arrived and the baby is already at home. But now it begins a period of many changes and extra work, mainly for the mom. Let us see which the most important are and how to confront them.

To take care of the points
- The episiotomy that heal to the 5 or 6 days, should stay you clean and you dry off; you are necessary to wash it at least three times a day and to be about leaving the wound uncovered by some daily minutes.

- The points of the Caesarean, also owe higienizarse. If the physician allows it, you are possible to take a shower from the first day; you are to frequently change the dressings.

- If the pain of the wound is important or you suppose that you were infected, you will be consulted to the physician.

The indent of the 40 days

- The first days the indent is of a red one intense (being ejected the remains of the uterus); later he/she becomes clearer and toward the last days it is very soft.

- The hard haemorrhage between 30 and 40 days and you are normal to say goodbye to some big clots.

- You should be used dressings of pure cotton, never tampons.

Problems to urinate

- Although you are important to urinate as soon as possible, during the first 24 hours it becomes very difficult for fear, well for an unpleasant sensation of quemazón in the episiotomy; the bladder can also be had damaged or oppressed.

- To generate the micturition, you are useful to walk and not to sit down totally in the toilet so that the urination doesn't touch the scar.

Pain in the nipples

- They will go decreasing gradually. For it, the baby owes succionar; first will take calostro but the slope of the milk is usually painful for the mom.

- You are important also that the mom is relaxed. You have to inspire and to change the position of the baby's mouth-

- You can apply a wet and warm towel or to be given a shower before each taking.

- To apply only cremates if cracks appear and to leave the chest to the air so that the nipples become hard.

Gestation - Control and Cares

In spite of the dysfunctions more or less intense and always transitory that are given in the mother-to-be's body, if it has been tried to treat them appropriately, the pregnancy is a phase of the woman's life that we must consider normal, the woman's biology is directed to perpetuate the specie and everything that makes in its favor it is a little. The pregnant woman from the first moments, it should trust the physician and to follow their commissions. The fact of trusting of the common sense or of the family test it exposes to end in big errors. The contrast with the previous generation that the physician in the middle of disaster, today only called is every more exceptional day that a woman arrives to the moment of the childbirth without book credit visited a gynecologist, at least in the big cities or in the industrialized fields; in the field, in the agricultural fields of many areas, the affluence is already pettier, but this fields are in fact those that provide a more high level of maternal and fetal mortality. It is of wanting that they still multiply not the prenatal clinics in these fields modernized, and that to them all the mothers still go remiss in recognizing the magnitude of the advances that you/they have been achieved in the care to the pregnant woman.

The first query should be a month, or to the two menstruation ullages to discard from the first moment any precocious alteration and to teach the first hygienic standards. The other visits should be monthly, being of special interest in the last weeks. During these visits, a mutual trust should settle down between the pregnant one and the gynecologist, undergoing the patient the recognition of its general state, of the normality of the different apparatuses (respiratory, digestive, urinal, etc.), and to the appraisal of different analysis, among which are indispensable the blood type, the factor RH, the urination exam, the arterial pressure, the control of weight and the different ultrasounds. Possibly debit side to add the red blood count, the determination of the quantity of sugar in the blood and the reactions for the diagnostic of the possible lúes or syphilis.

It is indispensable the woman's serene attitude in front of their pregnancy. In the woman's life, the pregnancy and the childbirth they represent a moment emotional resemblance, or maybe general ledger, to that of the puberty or that of the menopause, and the psychic behavior in front of that state depends on the sexual education, of the family (a lot of disastrous times) attitude, of the cultural level and of the happiness or sadness with which the event is accepted. The woman must have the convincing that she should be mother and that the childbirth is not any secret, and it must abort the fear to complications and the pain. A relaxed woman that allows to behave confidently for her gynecologist that has learned how to breathe that has the affection and the husband's understanding or couple, makes much easier the moment of the childbirth, and stiller knowing that the obstetrician has today powerful means of help that they facilitate his work and they redound in the mother's benefit and of the son.

The Pregnancy

Are they also embarrassed?
Many times during the pregnancy, in the couple the future mom usually has not only already the symptoms well-known, if not that the man also begins to feel nauseas, sickness until even vomits. No way of the whims or of the increment of the weight. To ésto he/she is called: Syndrome of Couvade.
The term Couvade comes from French (couver–to incubate), and to the one that old cultures denominated to a ritual that consisted in that the men should stay in the bed after its son's birth, simulating childbirth pains and receiving gifts.
Today in day, it is very usual that the future dad suffers at the same time of his couple, a series of symptoms related with the pregnancy like anxiety, euphoria or depression that are manifested with increase of the appetite, edginess and extreme easiness to enter in stress state. Fortunately for them he/she ends with their wife's childbirth. Why?
Some specialists declare that these men feel so associated to the couple's physical problems that take the same type of nuisances.
Others affirm that the symptoms of the Syndrome of Couvade resemble those of a common anguish more and he/she takes place for the concerns about the future changes in couple's relationship, the new son's birth and how this new stage will be, if they will reach the economic revenues and other bound matters with the paternity.
The certain thing is that those fears are more in the head than in the practice, because during the pregnancy there is a strong union in the couple, a great emotional connection and a strong mutual desire of being parents.
According to the studies, between the 10 and 65% of the husbands “embarrassed” they suffer this syndrome and he/she is considered that 1 of each 4 men consultation to the doctor for different causes that generally begin in the third month of gestation and they finish with the childbirth.
During years, the investigations have looked for the reasons that produce the Syndrome of Couvade, and the main ones indicate a significant relationship with situations psicosomatics; but from the century XXI several studies have disclosed that the paternity brings I get hormonal and biological changes in the man.
The important thing is that the men keep in mind that they can feel a series of changes so that they don't despair thinking that they have something bad, and in general when they assume this condition, the symptoms diminish or they disappear. It is good to know that the affected parents that they try to overcome it, they are somehow connected with the pregnancy and with their pregnant wives. They can understand a little better how they feel and even more their necessities.