How to put on a bandage

How to put on a bandage

During pregnancy future mom especially needs support and care. Same demands also her quickly growing tummy which every day is harder and harder for carrying with itself. If the doctor recommends to carry a dorodovy bandage, it is important to put on correctly it to facilitate to himself life and not to do much harm at the same time to the kid.

Instruction

1. The Dorodovy bandage is usually recommended to carry since the beginning of active growth of a stomach. It occurs approximately in 16-20 weeks of pregnancy. It is possible to carry a bandage up to the moment of childbirth provided that it is picked competently up, put correctly on and does not disturb you.

2. The size of a bandage can be calculated an easy way: take your size of underwear before pregnancy and add one more. In special cases when mom quickly adds weight, it is better to try on a bandage in shop and to choose the most suitable size. Correctly picked up bandage should not press on a stomach and cause discomfort.

3. It is very important to put on a bandage correctly. For this purpose accept horizontal position, and, having raised a basin, accurately put on a bandage, having recorded a stomach in a quiet state. If the uterus at the same time is in a tone, wait for its relaxation and put on a bandage after that.

4. If you chose bandage model in the form of shorts, consider that after visit of a toilet you need to accept horizontal position again correctly to put on a bandage. Therefore to pregnant women who go to work and lead a habitual life, the model in the form of a belt which remains in the correct situation during visit of a toilet and does not demand unfastening will approach more.

5. The most correct position of a uterus – after a dream. Try to hold a bandage about a bed and to put on it right after awakening. And here it is not recommended to sleep in a bandage even in the afternoon – it can squeeze important blood vessels and break blood supply of the kid. It is convenient to remove a bandage in horizontal position too.

6. The bandage which is correctly put on and picked up for the size supports a back and lumbar and sacral department, reduces load of a backbone that is especially important at back pains. At repeatedly pregnant mothers the bandage struggles with excessive stretching of a belly wall and reduces risk of extensions. At weak belly muscles the bandage plays a role of a peculiar corset and protects the kid. The bandage supports a stomach during long walks, sports activities for pregnant women.

7. Exceptions are made by women who are not recommended to carry a bandage because of the wrong provision of a fruit. In that case doctors wait for a revolution of future child a head down, and then fix the correct situation a bandage.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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