Most of future mothers wait for approach of the fortieth week. Its end marks approach of childbirth. But sometimes the kid does not hurry to be born in time specified by doctors.
What changes happen to the child on the fortieth week of pregnancy?
All bodies of the kid are completely developed and now he just accumulates weight and waits for the date, necessary for it. The child by the size reminds a pumpkin fruit. It seems that in a stomach there is no free space. Growth of a fruit on this term most often is within 48-51 centimeters. The weight of the child is about 3500 kilograms. But also cases when the kid is born 10 times more average value are frequent.
At the kid all reflexes are already quite well developed. Especially it concerns sosatelny. Future mother with ease will be able to make sure of it at once after the delivery. The child will put it on a breast and he at last will for the first time try the first food — colostrum.
The child can already estimate volumes, colors. He has a sensitivity to light, contrast and brightness. Eyes of the kid are capable to be focused at distance of 20-30 centimeters. It means that during feeding by a breast he will be capable to see the face of the mother.
Respiratory organs of the kid are already completely ready to make the first breath out of mother's womb. Intestines of the child are filled with a first-born stake — meconium. Normal it has to leave within the first day after the birth. But also the meconium otkhozhdeniye till the birth is possible.
Externally the child is completely similar to the newborn. Skin has light pink color and is covered with first-born lubricant in places where there are folds. It is necessary that gentle skin was not grated. On the head of the kid there can already be available be an excellent head of hear. On a volosika body are practically absent.
Genitals are already completely created. At boys on this term the testicles already have to fall to a scrotum.
Skull bones did not grow together yet. As a result of passing on patrimonial ways they will change slightly. They will grow together in next few days after the delivery. Fontanels at the kid will grow for the first years of life.
Because of the shortage of the place the fruit behaves quite quietly. It also as well as the pregnant woman needs to gain strength before childbirth. He will take active part in them. Normal the kid for day has to have a number of stirs not less than ten.
The child had to reach the correct position for childbirth for a long time — the head down. And if it did not occur and the child is turned incorrectly whether then doctors make the decision to carry out Cesarean section or to allow the woman before natural childbirth.
What changes happen to future mom on the 40th week?
The uterus on this term has quite big sizes. From a pubic joint it lasts upward on 36-40 centimeters. If to count on a navel, then height of a bottom of a uterus is located in 16-20 centimeters. Every day the neck of the uterus of the woman becomes shorter and softer. It is necessary for the normal course of childbirth. The cervical channel at the same time smoothly reveals. During childbirth it will open to the necessary sizes.
The woman can feel that training fights appear more often. It occurs thanks to production of hormones which are necessary for childbirth. The child's head nestles on an exit more and stronger. Because of it the shape of a stomach of the pregnant woman changes. Often the woman can hear a phrase that the stomach fell. It is one of harbingers of childbirth. A linking of a basin at this stage stretches, muscles are softened, and bones of a basin extend.
The woman should not ""be ready to leave"". There is enough that the collected package for maternity hospital lay at home, and in a handbag always with herself the woman carried the prenatal record. In case of an otkhozhdeniye of waters or fights somewhere on the street it is far from the house, the woman with ease can call an ambulance and go to maternity hospital. With necessary for it the spouse or the family can bring a package there.
The woman on this term feels fatigue more and more. Waist pains and weight in legs can amplify a little.
Very often the pregnant woman on this term notes that time as though lasts. It is connected with expectation. Very soon childbirth will begin, but exact date and time of their beginning is known by nobody. Therefore the woman stays in a disturbing state all the time. It is important to relatives to support her. Even if it is not first labor in the woman's life, then all of them are equally unique.
Characteristic symptoms of approach of childbirth
Childbirth does not arise sharply. The same harbingers are characteristic of most of women:
- Lowering of a stomach. As it was already told earlier, the kid falls to a small pelvis, pressing the head to a neck of the uterus. The woman can feel that her breath became much easier, and heartburn which could be present many weeks passed. But there is also minus of lowering of a stomach. As a result pressure upon a bladder increases, and the woman has almost constant desire to descend in a toilet ""a bit"".
- Quite often women before childbirth note frequent depletion of intestines. Cases of ease of a chair are frequent. The organism as though tries to be cleaned before fast childbirth. Besides ease of a chair, the woman can feel cutting nausea or even vomiting.
- In the last week before childbirth at the woman the appetite vanishes. On this background its weight can not change or even to decrease by 1-2 kilograms.
- Otkhozhdeny a mucous stopper also speaks about fast approach of childbirth. The truth in certain cases a stopper can depart also in 2-3 weeks prior to day of ""X"". The stopper can depart as at once entirely, and pieces, for several days. It is important to woman to understand that after the stopper begins to leave, the child is not protected from infections. It is undesirable to pregnant woman to swim in pools or lakes. Otherwise she can bring an infection.
- Otkhozhdeniye of amniotic waters — one of the main symptoms of absolutely fast approach of childbirth. Normal they have to be transparent color. If waters have a yellowish or green shade, then it means that the kid cleaned the intestines in mother's womb. It is necessary to tell about it to doctors surely. After at the woman waters began to stream, it is necessary to go to maternity hospital, having called ambulance crew or with relatives on the transport. Independently it is extremely undesirable to take the wheel.
- Regular contractions. They differ from training in the fact that have no randomness. They are regular. Each time fights amplify. The rest interval between them becomes less.
Possible risks on the 40th week of pregnancy
Future mom has to show consideration very much for herself and the feelings. Any deterioration in health can threaten life and health to the woman and the child. But also doctors insistently advise not to worry too strongly. It is impossible to sound the alarm because of any small indisposition. It is necessary to see quickly a doctor in the following cases:
- If pressure of the woman is increased.
- If future mom notices severe hypostases on hands and legs.
- If the woman feels dizzy, ripples in eyes, a headache, turbidity in eyes.
- For 12 hours the woman does not feel any stirs of a fruit.
- From a genital tract blood is emitted.
- Waters departed.
On the fortieth week of pregnancy the following risks can expect the woman:
- Otsloyka of a placenta.
- Hypoxia at the child.
- Infectious diseases.
- Toxicosis in the late stage of pregnancy — a gestosis.
- Early aging of a placenta. It cannot simply perform all the functions in due volume for normal development of the child.
The doctor on reception, as a rule, appoints the following date of survey in day after estimated date of childbirth. If the woman does not give rise by this time, then she has to be on survey. By its results the obstetrician-gynecologist who conducts all pregnancy of the woman will be able to solve whether the woman needs to go to maternity hospital before childbirth. Or it can be a week more at home.