20 week are some kind of boundary. A half of pregnancy is already passed, and at the normal course of pregnancy ahead still exactly as much. And it means that toxicosis and sharp differences of mood consigned to the past, and the woman is waited by new feelings.
How does the fruit on the 20th obstetric week look?
The child's weight on this term averages 300 grams, and growth averages it 25 centimeters. The kid in parameters can be compared to a small coco.
In the middle of pregnancy all internals of the child are already completely created. Now the main objectives of a fruit — a set of weight and improvement of internal systems of a small organism.
On term in twenty weeks to the kid there is only the eighteenth week. Handles and the child's legs are created by a cavity and at survey on the device ultrasonography it is possible to see a marigold on small fingers. Skin of the kid becomes more and more dense. Though the person still quite wrinkled, but if to compare to last weeks, then is already visible how it is smoothed.
This week at the child the special secret is already produced by sebaceous glands which protects skin of the kid. Also the fact that already on this term on fingers of the kid the unique drawing appears is remarkable.
Heart was completely created for a long time and now it fights with frequency of 120-140 beats per minute.
Bones of the kid become more and more dense. Future mom needs not to forget that at her diet there have to be vegetable products containing calcium. It is also necessary to pay attention and to the products capable to raise hemoglobin.
Fruit eyes gradually begin to open. On ultrasonography it is possible even to see eyelashes on small centuries. At a research it is possible even to define with high probability what hair color the child will have. In any case, with ease it is possible to understand a dark-haired head at the child or the fair-haired child will be born.
If to look at the calendar of periods, then it is possible to see that from the moment of conception there passed about 18 weeks. But the kid during this time learned already much:
- To move with hands and legs.
- To squeeze tiny fingers in a fist.
- To suck a finger.
- To turn in a fetal bubble and to choose favourite situation. In a day the child can change the situation several times. But most often its favourite pose is situation-headed down.
- To react to light, sounds and taste of food which is eaten by future mom.
- To grimace, frown, smile and wriggle.
The kid can be played with a placenta. On average at the time of wakefulness he can make about 20 movements. Especially quick can increase the quantity of movements to 60 in one hour.
Besides development of the child on this term occurs also active changes in a placenta. It protects the child, is responsible for a set of functions and has to correspond to pregnancy term. When there comes the sixth month of pregnancy, placenta thickness at normally going pregnancy becomes to equal 20 millimeters. Also the placenta also increases in the sizes that to the child it was not close.
What is felt by the pregnant woman on the 20th week?
On the middle of term at the pregnant woman the pot-belly is already enough. The health in general has to be good. The woman the most part of time stays in positive mood. The truth in some situations the sharp differences of mood are still possible. Now there is such time when incubation of the child brings only happiness. All possible problems leave on a distance shot. And at the working woman very soon there will come the maternity leave.
In 20 weeks almost all women already feel stirs of a fruit inside. Some future fathers can also feel pushes of the kid. For this purpose it is enough to put a palm on the woman's tummy at the moment of activity of the child. But the kid can calm down at this moment and not have an effect. If it did not turn out to feel these stirs today, then you should not be upset. Perhaps tomorrow the kid will decide to kick the dad with a leg.
On the twentieth week of pregnancy because of the growing stomach future mom can feel weight in a back. The bottom of a stomach can also pull slightly because of the stretching sheaves and the increasing uterus. Its height on this term is equal to 20-21 centimeters. Visually it is approximately at the level of the woman's navel. As a result of such changes in the sizes, internals of future mom are displaced and she can feel:
- To Otdyshk.
- Impossibility to eat at the same time large number of food.
- Frequent desire to descend in a toilet a bit.
What it is necessary to pay attention on the 20th week of pregnancy to?
The small organism growing in the woman needs oxygen. For this reason it is necessary to try to walk daily. Besides any physical activity will help not to gain excess weight. On this term the increase in a week on average has to make 500 grams. Though the fruit also accumulates subcutaneous fat, but if a set of weight is prompt and superfluous, then at the kid problems with health can result.
The woman for many reasons needs to watch the diet. At the very beginning of pregnancy she already had to exclude some products which and now should not accept:
- Alcoholic drinks.
- Carbonated drinks.
- Fast food.
- The food containing transfats in the structure.
- As much as possible to lower the products containing fast carbohydrates.
- To reduce consumption of high-allergenic products.
Future mom, in the presence of problems with a chair, needs to reconsider the food and to bring in it the products helping an excrement. For example, in case of a lock to eat prunes or compote from this sukhofrukt.
To the woman, as well as on other weeks it is necessary to watch closely the allocations. And if suddenly they become brown or scarlet color, then immediately to call an ambulance.
Most concerns also pains. If the stomach just pulls, then it is possible to appease this feeling just having had a rest, or having drunk No-Spa. But if the woman feels acute or skhvatkoobrazny pain, then it is immediately necessary to call ambulance crew and to lay down in a hospital. Though a half of pregnancy already behind, but the child is still insufficiently created to be born.
Now there comes such period when appearance of hypostases standing and hands — at all not a rarity. Most likely the woman will already remove rings that they did not peredavlivat fingers. And from weight and hypostases of legs massages well will help. But it is also necessary to tell about hypostases the obstetrician-gynecologist. The doctor will look at a state and will make recommendations.
Spasms in legs with developing of sharp pain can become one more possible problem on this term. It is sign that in an organism there is not enough important microcell. Namely calcium or magnesium. To lower pain, it is necessary to pull at the time of spasms a finger sock on itself and to warm up a muscle hands. It is necessary to tell about spasms to the doctor and he will appoint medicine which will remove this negative sign.
Ultrasonography on the 20th week of pregnancy
As a rule, the woman already made the second ultrasonic screening slightly earlier and now in a research there is no sense. But if for some reason he was not carried out, then now a deadline when it is possible to look whether the kid of any visual pathologies does not have him. Also ultrasonography can be appointed if throughout long time mom does not feel the movement of the kid, and the doctor cannot listen to heartbeat. Whether then ultrasonography is appointed to define there was no dying down of a fruit. Though on such term it is rather a rarity.
If earlier future parents could not know a sex of the kid, then now that term when it is quite easy to make it. External genitals are already created and if it is the boy, then on the ultrasonic image the parents will be able to see a penis of the kid. If the girl grows in a stomach, then it is possible to see a clitoris and vulvar lips.