Bearing desired pregnancy, future mom wants to be sure that her child grows and develops correctly. But until the woman does not begin to feel movements of the kid, her doubts, whether can overcome all as it should be. To define that pregnancy progresses, both subjective feelings, and achievements of modern medicine will help.
Instruction
1. You watch the state. Morning nausea, drowsiness, disgust for some products, sensitivity to smells, swelling and morbidity of mammary glands – these signs indirectly confirm both pregnancy existence, and its development. Though disappearance in itself any of symptoms or their set does not say that pregnancy stood, this fact has to guard you.
2. If the breast decreased in sizes, toxicosis was gone, you do not feel an indisposition which pursued you the last weeks, see a doctor to make sure that pregnancy progresses. Perhaps, these changes will be feature of your organism, and with the kid everything is all right.
3. From the moment of implantation of the impregnated ovum in a uterus cavity in an organism of the woman it is possible to find the horionichesky gonadotrophin of the person (HGP) – the pregnancy hormone produced by chorion fabric – a germinal cover on the basis of which the placenta is formed. From 1 to 11 week from conception the HGCh level constantly grows in the woman's blood, and from 11-16 weeks begins to decrease gradually as by this time chorion will be transformed to a placenta.
4. For control over development of pregnancy on terms up to 16 weeks periodically take a blood test on determination of the HGCh level. If in your clinic for women such analysis does not become, address to the specialized medical center or laboratory. Blood test on HGCh is made on an empty stomach: since morning or during the day, but not earlier than in 2 hours after meal.
5. At regular visit of the obstetrician-gynecologist you will be able to monitor development of your pregnancy in objective signs: to increase in height of standing of a bottom of a uterus and a circle of a stomach which for you can be imperceptible. When the doctor makes these measurements, ask to voice to you their values, write down and compare to the previous indicators.
6. If in an arsenal of your doctor there is a fetal doppler, you will be able to listen from 12th week to heartbeat of the kid – reliable sign of the developing pregnancy. Of course, if you are allowed by means, it is possible to buy this device in private use and to watch regularly a condition of the child, but keep in mind that it costs expensive.
7. An optimum way of definition of the progressing pregnancy is ultrasonography (ultrasonography). After 5-6 obstetric weeks the doctor can see heart beat of an embryo. Therefore if you want to make sure that your pregnancy develops according to term, address in yours clinic for women or other medical institution the ultrasonographer. In medical literature and among the practicing doctors there is no consensus about that how often it is possible to do ultrasonography, but if there are doubts in the correct course of pregnancy, it is better to carry out it nevertheless.
8. Approximately from 18-22 weeks future mom begins to feel stirs of a fruit. From this term of additional researches it will not be required: daily fix movements of the kid, and all necessary analyses, ultrasonography and determination of heart rate of the child you undergo in a planned order.