18 week of pregnancy are one of the most comfortable weeks in life of future mom. All second trimester the pregnant woman most often is in high spirits and good mood. It affects also the kid.
What happens to the woman on the 18th week of pregnancy?
For the woman this week can become one of the most memorable. Doctors consider that especially at repeated pregnancy on the 18th week future mom most often feels the first stirs of her child in a womb. You should not be frightened if the kid was not heard from yet. This indicator is not exact. Perhaps as earlier, and later feeling of stir of a fruit. But this reference point is useful to doctors if the exact term of pregnancy was not established. The moment of the first pushes of the kid will be regarded by experts as the sign of the fact that the woman is on the 18th obstetric week.
On this term of the woman, as a rule, feel just remarkably. Weight should not increase strongly, a stomach too small yet to disturb gait, and toxicosis already has to pass. But also unpleasant symptoms of pregnancy on this term are possible:
- Painful feelings in a navel.
- It develops as a result the muscular ring between a stomach and a gullet weakens.
- It is quite difficult to find a convenient pose for a dream. The sleep debt is as a result possible.
- As a result of hormonal reorganization the emergence of pigmentary spots in a zone of a decollete and on the face of the pregnant woman is possible.
- Pressure can periodically increase. If it occurs, then it is necessary to discuss possible treatment of this problem with the attending physician.
- The sight can worsen slightly.
Among other things practically all women on the term of 18 obstetric weeks complain of frequent urination. The uterus continuously grows and begins to press on a bladder. Such desire will run "a bit", most likely, to be observed at the pregnant woman all pregnancy up to childbirth.
In the woman's blood throughout pregnancy there is on rather high mark a hormone progesterone. Till 12th week of pregnancy the yellow body, and after — a placenta was responsible for its synthesis. The condition of a uterus depends on its level. If progesterone in an organism of future mother is not enough, then the tone can be observed. At normal concentration of hormone, the uterus will be in the weakened state that well affects pregnancy course. But this hormone relaxes not only a uterus, but also other muscle tissues. As a result the vermicular movement of intestines can worse begin to work, and the woman will complain of a meteorizm and a lock.
The tone of vessels because of progesterone also decreases. Future mom can have hypostases. It is important to watch the water balance. It is impossible to allow both the insufficient use of water, and surplus. Appearance of hypostases cannot be hidden from the obstetrician-gynecologist. The doctor if necessary will be able to appoint medicines, necessary for a conclusion of excess liquid, which will be safe for future child.
On the 18th obstetric week the tummy at the woman can look differently. At some practically nothing is visible. From outside it is even possible not to think that the woman is in the family way. The stomach of other women can already have quite impressive sizes.
How does the fruit develop?
18 obstetric week of pregnancy according to the calendar are the 16th embryonic week. Concerns many women how the child develops and what sizes he has. In order that to define it, it is enough to open the palm. The kid with ease will be located in it.
Growth of the child on this term — no more than 14 cm. Weight averages about 150 grams. The child can be compared to a ripe fruit of mango. The kid increases every day. On this week to it there are following changes:
- There are germs of molars of the child. They are located over rudiments of milk teeth. Molars can be cut through in decades, but their development begins on the 18th week.
- All bones of the child become stronger. This process is called a skeleton mineralization.
- The joints of the kid located on fingers of hands and legs develop.
- The child's muscles also develop.
- At the kid the hypodermic fat layer begins to be formed.
When the fruit does not sleep, he trains. All its movements are made at the level of reflexes, and the child is already able:
- To suck a finger.
- To imitate breath process.
- To swallow of amniotic liquid.
- To turn.
At forums it is possible to notice what interests many women how often the child has to move. It is almost impossible to count stirs now. To the child in a uterus still it is not close at all. He can actively spin in a uterus cavity, without concerning it. As a result the mother's body will not have any feelings. Calculation of stirs will be necessary in more late stages of pregnancy.
Pains, allocations and possible complications on the 18th week of pregnancy
Throughout all pregnancy there can be some unpleasant symptoms. It is necessary to watch them. If pains or allocations are beyond normal, then it is immediately necessary to address to the centers of health care for pregnancy preservation. If there is childbirth, then the child will not be able to survive.
- On this term the release of colostrum from breasts is possible. It is impossible to decant it at all. It can provoke reduction of a uterus and cause an abortion.
- On any term there can be an abortion, or pregnancy can stand. If it happened, then the woman can have strange feelings. In particular the general health of the woman worsens. It is necessary to watch closely the state and in case of any deteriorations to speak about it to the attending physician or to cause emergency aid.
- The pulling weak pains can be present at an extent of all term of pregnancy. So sheaves and muscles stretch to hold the increasing stomach. But if pains strong or skhvatkoobrazny, then it is necessary to lay down and call ambulance crew.
- Allocations from a vagina in the second trimester can amplify considerably. Bleach have to be transparent or whitish and not have any specific smell. If at the woman are observed yellow, greenish, sharply and unpleasantly smelling allocations, then it is symptom of diseases of a genital tract. If allocations have brown, red or scarlet color, then it is impossible to waste time. Most likely the abortion or an otsloyka of a placenta begins and it is necessary to call an ambulance for hospitalization.
The gestosis can become one more possible unpleasant symptom on the 18th week. It is toxicosis in the late stage of pregnancy. It has a few symptoms, but each of them can be dangerous both to health of future mother, and to the child:
- Visible and internal hypostases. For diagnosis of hypostases the doctor the obstetrician-gynecologist can press fingers extremities. How the print quickly vanishes, existence or absence of hypostases is defined.
- Sharp and quite big increase in weight.
- Emergence of protein in urine of the pregnant woman.
Any of symptoms should be controlled throughout pregnancy.
General recommendations
The middle of the second trimester — it is a high time to complete all affairs. It is necessary to pass all the doctors specified in the prenatal record: stomatologist, oculist, therapist, ENT SPECIALIST. By the obstetrician-gynecologist receptions to other doctors in case of need can be appointed. It is also important to make the ECG during pregnancy. Heart works in the emergency mode and it is necessary to watch its normal state.
Future mom needs to eat properly. The diet has to be balanced. If the woman is tormented by heartburn, then it is worth paying the attention to porridges and kissels. If there are locks, then it is necessary to eat prunes. It will help to weaken a chair. If and it did not help, then with the permission of the doctor it is possible to do microenemas.
Also it will be useful to drink cranberry and cowberry fruit drinks. They are excellent national diuretics, vitamin-rich. The main thing is to make sure that the woman has no allergy to a cranberry and cowberry.
You should not react too emotionally to all events around. Though the storm of hormones which was pregnancies at the beginning ceased, but the emotional condition of the woman can be all pregnancy unstable. It is important to remember that all emotions of mother are broadcast on the kid. And let better he stays in joyful mood, than feels grief and melancholy.