Your Baby Is Coming Now Push: The Book About Pregnancy Which Is NOT About Pregnancy

Preparing Your Child for a New Sibling

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Assemble them in chronological order and then staple together in one corner. Or create a mini photo book keepsake on Shutterfly. When you flip through the pages with your thumb, it will look as if your belly is magically growing. Why are Baby's kicks not as strong as they used to be? Why can't I sleep at night? Watch this video to learn more about common symptoms of pregnancy during month 8. You've got a good long stretch of the Wiggles and "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" coming up -- get in your music while you can.

We played the songs on my iPod when I was in labor , and I don't think it's a coincidence that my daughter loves listening to U2! Steer clear of the mosh pits. Keep a record of all the crazy stories from your pregnancy , like that recurring dream you have of giving birth to a hamster. Your child will find it hilarious when he's Write the memories down, tuck the notes into an envelope, and file under "Open in He didn't think that was funny, though.

You'll need one during those notorious 2 a. Tap manicurists or pedicurists from a salon; many will make house calls if you can guarantee a certain number of clients. Pick a day, invite a few friends, and get ready to flaunt your toes! Plan a menu around teeny, tiny items: Just in case you haven't yet discovered it, sexy maternity lingerie does exist. Pick up an animal-print teddy or a lacy bottom or two you can find flattering choices at MommyliciousMaternity.

Then let the night unfold as it may. And if you're wondering: The "spooning" position works well even when you're a week away from delivery. Once your baby's born, you might want to scoot out of the house when your mother comes to visit: But now, treat her to lunch, pick her brain for parenting wisdom, and be ready to hear, "It's the best, toughest job in the world" about, oh, 50 times. Now's no time to jet off to Bali, but you can make a quick escape.

A flaw in my mothering capacity? All of the above? But perhaps larger influences were also at work. According to the psychologist Penny Munn, mothering in western culture is "based on ideas of romantic love that assume a good mother will replicate a nurturing, romantic relationship with each successive child". This model of mothering is a natural progression from the teen-mags and love stories that girls gorge on in adolescence, a maternal version of the same scenario: It's a model that may work fine with one child, but is profoundly ill-matched to the reality of mothering more than one.

The reasons why maternal love falters and in some cases fail are many and complex, and the arrival of a second child is by no means the only catalyst. For some mothers, even one child can be hard to love. Whatever the reason, the fact remains: It was ever thus, and yet it remains one of the great taboos of modern family life: The novelist Thomas Keneally once said, "To write a novel is always to go naked, whatever you're writing about.

You always reveal yourself. Based on the true story of an 18th-century doctor named Alexander Gordon, what drew me was the dilemma of a man who made an astonishing medical breakthrough that was ahead of its time. I had no idea, at least not consciously, that writing this story would draw me back to the unexpected emotional repercussions of my son's birth. But as the novel developed, two interlocking narratives emerged: The more I read and thought about the plight of women in the past dying in childbirth for want of exactly the medical knowledge and resources that had unquestionably saved my life after my son's birth, the more haunted by the subject I became.

Gordon's brilliant discovery was that doctors and midwives were spreading fatal infection to the women they had delivered. Had he been believed, countless women's lives might have been saved in the course of the following century. With one woman a minute still dying in the world today from pregnancy and labour-related conditions, this tragedy is as real now as it was in the past, the big difference being that now it's more often happening in Africa and Asia than in Britain. But besides the obvious tragedy of death in childbirth, there was the untold story of the impact of near misses, the women who survived difficult births, but who remained deeply wounded by the experience; women who were estranged from their children, their husbands, and from themselves as a result of the psychological impact of becoming a mother.

In the character of Elisabeth, the wife of Alexander Gordon, and through her relationship with her five-year-old daughter, Mary, I found a way of exploring my own experience. The emotional toll of a difficult labour, the guilt and shame of not loving your child as you want to, the bewilderment, the locked-in feeling, the struggle to find a tolerable distance between you, a bearable proximity: I hadn't even known I'd wanted to write about it.

But there it was, despite myself. In Elisabeth's case, the estrangement with her daughter would become entrenched. This happens in real life too, more often than we know or care to admit. Thankfully, it did not happen to Jessie and me.

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One night, about a year after my son's birth, I was putting both children to bed. Sometimes shame is helpful. It can penetrate the very defences it prompted us to build in the first place. Her guileless question stung me into feeling what the writer Helen Simpson has called "the serrated teeth of remorse". The rampart was breached. My aunt, in whom I eventually did confide, offered wise counsel: You can't protect your children from life.

Not simply with time, but with hard work and conscious effort. People talk about working at marriages, and that was how I worked at my relationship with my daughter. I made time to do things together, to have fun together, to give her undivided attention, to rebuild her trust in me, to get to know her again. For myself, I cultivated the habit of loving her as carefully as a wine-grower cultivates vines.

I reschooled myself into seeing her, thinking about her, as I had before: In some cases the leak can spontaneously heal, but in most cases of PPROM, labor begins within 48 hours of membrane rupture. When this occurs, it is necessary that the mother receive treatment immediately to postpone labor if the fetus is not viable, for as long as is safe, and for antibiotic treatments to avoid possible infection in the mother and baby. If rupture occurs too early in pregnancy little can be done to save the fetus. A very rare and most often fatal obstetric complication is an amniotic fluid embolism, or leakage of amniotic fluid into the mothers vascular systems causing an allergic reation.

This allergic reaction results in cardiorespiratory heart and lung collapse, developing into a condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation in which the mothers blood looses it's ability to clot. Amniotic band syndrome, or ABS, occurs when the inner fetal membrane amnion ruptures without injury to the outer membrane chorion. Fibrous bands from the ruptured amnion float in the amniotic fluid and can entangle the fetus, reducing blood supply and causing congenital limb abnormalities dysmelia.

In some cases a complete "natural" amputation of a digit s or limb may occur before birth or the digit s or limbs may be necrotic dead requiring surgical removal. There are pituitary like hormones and steroid hormones secreted from the placenta. The pituitary like hormones are hCG and hCS. HCG is similar to LH and helps maintain the mothers corpus luteum. HCS is like prolactin and growth hormone and help aid in increasing fat breakdown that spares the use of glucose from the mothers tissues.

This effect leaves more glucose available to the placenta and the fetus for necessary growth. The steroid hormones are progesterone and estrogen. Progesterone helps maintain the endrometrium and supports the growth of mammary glands. Estrogen also helps maintain the endrometrium and growth of mammary glands as well as inhibits prolactin secretion. The womb is expanding, the baby is growing and taking all the nourishment from the mother. What once started as a microscopic two-celled egg, will be formed into a baby in just twelve weeks.

The baby develops from conception to term, in a month-to-month progress. This is the life support for a growing embryo. The umbilical cord stretches between the placenta and the fetus. This cord contains the umbilical arteries and vein. The umbilical cord forms by week 5 of conception. The average cord is close to 22 inches long and may have the appearance of a coil. The umbilical cord is very rich in stem cells and is often used for parents who choose to store their stem cells in a blood bank or donate it to a blood bank.

These stem cells can be used to treat over 45 disorders and is an alternative from extracting the stem cells from a donor. The exchange of gases, nutrients and oxygen takes place between the maternal blood and fetal blood. There are 2 main arteries. Vein that carries nutrients and oxygen away from the placenta to the growing fetus. It also carries oxygen and nutrient rich blood. There is only 1 main vein. One artery instead of two will result in chromosomal abnormalities. Some of these defects include poor fetal growth, preterm delivery, and still births.

This can be detected by a routine ultrasound. If an ultrasound is done and no other complications or abnormalities are detected, the baby will usually be born healthy. This condition usually happens when a cord is too long. The baby may be born prematurely or will be breech. This condition happens when the umbilical cord is wrapped around the baby's head at least one or more times.

Childbirth Stage 2: Pushing the Baby Out

This can be detected when a baby is in stress or by a simple ultrasound. In most cases the mother will have a cesarean delivery. In other cases the cord may be wrapped around the hands or feet. This occurs in one in every 3, births, which can become life threatening for the unborn baby. This complication happens when the umbilical cord inserts abnormally in the fetal membranes of the placenta, which appears abnormally shaped or positioned.

Major risks include unprotected fetal blood vessels cross the cervix, oftentimes rupturing the membranes. Also, lack of blood pressure due from pressure, causes the loss of oxygen to the baby. Women who will be at risk for this would be those who already have experienced placenta previa or have used in vitro fertilization. Some knots happen during labor; others happen from moving around in the womb. Most knots occur when the umbilical cord is too long. In some cases the knots can become tight, cutting off the oxygen supply to the baby.

Most will require a cesarean delivery. This is more common with genetic defects, such as Factor V Leiden.

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This complication will prevent blood flow to and from the baby and many times will cause the placenta to also clot and die. If this is not caught early enough, the baby will die of starvation in the womb. A simple ultrasound can determine if there are problems with the blood flow. An initial sign of pregnancy is amenorrhea, or the absence of menstruation. Menses cease because the blastocyte begins the release of hCG or human chorionic gonadotropin. Most pregnancy tests are specifically designed to recognize the presence of hCG, and hCG levels can be tested through the mothers blood to learn whether or not a pregnancy is progressing normally.

Human pregnancy lasts approximately 40 weeks from the time of the last menstrual cycle to childbirth 38 weeks from fertilization. The medical term for a pregnant woman is genetalian, just as the medical term for the potential baby is embryo early weeks and then fetus until birth. A woman who is pregnant for the first time is known as a primigravida or gravida 1: In many societies' medical and legal definitions, human pregnancy is somewhat arbitrarily divided into three trimester periods, as a means to simplify reference to the different stages of fetal development.

The first trimester period carries the highest risk of miscarriage spontaneous death of embryo or fetus. During the second trimester the development of the fetus can start to be monitored and diagnosed. The third trimester marks the beginning of viability, which means the fetus might survive if an early birth occurs. As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, her body begins to change so that it can support both herself and the unborn baby. All of the body functions start to work much harder. The heart has to pump more blood around the body, in particular to the womb, placenta, and the fetus.

As well as physical demands, pregnancy also causes a range of emotional reactions. In the early weeks the mother is likely to be more tired. As the uterus begins to grow, the "bump" becomes noticeable. This is a good time to start looking into options on birthing and doctors. Once the female confirms her pregnancy, she will need to find out her physical condition and what to expect in the coming months. Women typically begin pre-natal care at approximately weeks gestation, and pregnancy care should continue until approximately 6 weeks postpartum.

The main purpose of the prenatal visits is to perform preventative medicine.

Most complications in pregnancy are best treated if they are caught early on. A series of tests will be performed throughout the pregnancy to judge the mother and fetus' well-being including:. When the contractions of labor begin, the walls of the uterus start to contract. They are stimulated by the release of the pituitary hormone oxytocin. The contractions cause the cervix to widen and begin to open. As labor progresses the amniotic sac can rupture causing a slow or a fast gush of fluids.

Human Physiology/Pregnancy and birth

Labor usually begins within a 24 hour period after the amniotic sac has ruptured. As contractions become closer and stronger the cervix will gradually start to dilate. The first stage of labor is broken into three parts:.

At this point the labor enters the second stage, or the birth of the baby. The mother begins pushing to aid in the birth of the baby, this part of labor can last minutes, or even hours. A fetus usually delivered head first. At this point if necessary the birth attendant may perform an episiotomy, which is a small surgical incision on the perineum. This procedure is usually done to deliver the baby more quickly in response to fetal distress.

Oxytocin continues to be released to shrink the size of the uterus and aid in the limiting of blood loss from the site of the placenta. As the uterus shrinks the attachment site blood vessels, some of which can be as large as an adult finger, shrink also. The average blood loss in a routine vaginal delivery is cc. There are times when a mother may need outside aid in the delivery of the baby, some of these methods include:.

After the baby is born the umbilical cord is clamped and cut and the baby is looked over by a doctor or nurse.

This is an analysis of how well the baby is performing its vital functions. If tearing, or an episiotomy occurs the wound is closed with absorbable suture. The mother is closely watched for blood loss, infection, or any other possible complications.

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Breastfeeding should be initiated as soon as possible after delivery as the stimulation of oxytocin in the mother aids in hemostasis. Pregnancies that warrant close attention usually come from an existing medical condition such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, or a condition developed because of pregnancy. Conditions that arise during pregnancy will require special treatment. The purpose of prenatal care is to detect these conditions, and to monitor and deal with them before they become serious.

Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the natural or spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or the fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined in humans at a gestation of prior to 20 weeks. Miscarriages are the most common complication of pregnancy.

Miscarriage is almost never the mother's fault. Vaginal bleeding at any stage should be taken seriously. Severe bleeding in the early weeks may be a sign of miscarriage. After 24 weeks the mother should seek medical advice immediately. Third trimester bleeding in pregnancy is often one of the first signs of placenta previa; placenta is across the opening of the cervix. An ultrasound should be performed to establish the location. Other causes of late term bleeding include:.

Individuals either have, or do not have, the Rhesus factor or Rh D antigen on the surface of their red blood cells. This is a problem only when an Rh-negative woman has a partner who is Rh-positive resulting in an Rh-positive baby.

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