Just Gas Bubbles or Baby Moving

Remember the first time we feel the baby moved?  I cannot remember it but often think about it as I am a new mom. But when time comes, how do I know that it is just gas bubbles or baby moves.

Usually, pregnant women start to feel the baby making movements in 16 to 18 weeks of pregnancy.  The feeling of a baby moving is not the same for every woman, which makes it difficult for a woman to know if the feeling is gas bubbles moving through the body or is the baby moving instead. It is easier to tell if it is the baby moving later during pregnancy, when the baby is kicking and punching, but is easily confused with gas bubbles when the baby starts moving. 

How to Know Twins from Pregnancy Symptoms

If one of your family trees has twins, will you wonder if you also have a chance to get twin babies? I personally believe that every parent, especially new mom would be happy for either single or twin babies.  But in some family, this also means double responsibility and extra educational fund.  There is only one way to be certain that twins are on the way, but there are a few early pregnancy signs that can predict twins.

HCG and morning sickness is the first sign.  HCG levels rising more than double or continuing to double after a few weeks can be a sign of a multiple pregnancy as the body is working harder to support the development of two babies instead of one. Higher levels of HCG can also mean more bouts or more violent bouts of morning sickness. Many women carrying twins will often find that they experience the same symptoms of women with single pregnancies but at a much higher degree. So, if your morning sickness is worse than previous pregnancies, you may be carrying multiples.

Boy or Girl-How Soon We Know

Even though I have no problem either a lovely girl or a naughty boy, I choose the baby name since the first week.  Just in case we have twins.  But if you would like to know the right sex of the baby, when will you know or will you have to wait for 3 months.

                                                                                          

Although the baby's chromosomes already determine whether your baby is a boy or a girl, with an ultrasound or amniocentesis, you may be able to know a baby's sex before 3 months. In the genital period development, male and female genitals in the fetus appear to be identical before about eighth week of pregnancy. At around 12 weeks, genitals have begun to differentiate, but these differences may not be visible yet on an ultrasound.

Bleeding Spot-That’s Alarm Bell

Will that be normal pregnancy symptom to have spot or bleeding during pregnancy, especially in early pregnancy?  Some pregnant women or even some books said it is possible to get the period during pregnancy.  But this must be unexceptional case or I miss any point.  So many questions come in my mind, and it is about time to learn if it is really dangerous.

Check the color, implantation bleeding is lighter than menstrual bleeding, and consists of pink or brown colored blood. It occurs when the trophoblast, or tissue that surrounds the egg, attaches to the endometrium and slowly eats its way into the lining. As it does so, it eats through the mother's blood vessels, forming blood lakes within itself. When these blood lakes form near the surface of the trophoblast, they often cause implantation bleeding.

Precautions Time for New Mom and How to Deal

Many women have just known of their pregnancy at five weeks. The first trimester is critical time as the fetus is undergoing big changes and many developmental are happening. So, you have to be precautious for everything not only the medication but all lifestyle.  I am listing some of precautions for pregnant women in the first trimester and what you should do as below.

Stop Birth Control

Once the pregnancy test is positive, stop all birth control methods that involve the use of hormones including all forms of birth control pills and patches.

Myth of Cramps in Early Pregnancy

What is remarkable to be made clear over here is a misconception regarding cramps. There are many young ladies who take such kinds of cramps as happening due only to their normal period, provided cramps occur prior to their MC. Keeping in view the cramps in early pregnancy the ladies, experiencing such cramps or pains, rather should examine themselves whether the cramps is directly related with early pregnancy or is the sign of their normal period. 

Cramps being the explicit sign of early pregnancy, accompanied by mild discharge or bleeding forecasts a woman’s readying for nine month’s pregnancy-related journey. Uterus-lining gets expanded following fertilized eggs completely occupying the embryo, which causes a pain, just tantamount to the Before-Menstruation-Cycle-Pain. In other words, embryo’s being occupied by fertilized eggs causes cramps in early pregnancy.

What is Cramps and Does it Mean No XXX

To make all new moms can handle with cramps correctly; I would like you to know what cramps are before.  After get through this entire article, you may have some answers on the question what is its effect and how to cope with your personal life.

Cramps happen due to uterus passing through a transitional stage in a form of expansion and contraction respectively. Uterus consisting of muscles and tissues makes a young lady feel cramps during her early pregnancy Some of the factors directly associated with cramps in early pregnancy are being outlined here. 

In early pregnancy, cramps can be substantiated by light bleeding and stains, resulting due to fertilized eggs implanting them in uterus. Cramps happen after seven to eight days of eggs getting implanted into the uterus.

Sleep Survival for Pregnant Women Final Destination

Here we come to the most difficult part of sleep problem in pregnant women.  I hope you get through 1^st trimester and 2^nd trimester without problem.  Surviving from improper sleep is the most challenged stage in the third trimester. Because of the frequency of urination, inability to get comfortable, extra weight, and preparing for the new baby, it becomes hard job to get well sleep and even have to take effort to pass each night. 

If above problems re not enough, you will feel that rigorous baby moves and baby hiccups can also impede sleep. You can expect aches and pains of many kinds at this time. Since the body is carrying all the extra weight, the heavy duty falls on the joints and that makes it loosening.  Even walking can be tough. 

Sleep Survival for Pregnant Women PART 2

Many pregnant women are happier to pass 1st trimester and hit the 2nd trimester mark. Why?  Because, it means less risk of a miscarriage, less morning sickness, less frequent urination.  Moreover, it means longer peacefully sleeping hours. 

Women often feel their best and have a boost of energy during this time. Anyway, there remain plenty of maladies to plague sleep during this time. Our bodies are adapted to make room for the enlarging uterus and the diaphragm is restricted and breathing becomes shallower. This causes the infamous heartburn. Many women only have to eat or drink anything and get it. Another unpleasant case interrupt our sleep is nightmare. Some of pregnant women notice their dreams become increasingly frightening and extremely vivid by pregnancy develops.  Have you ever dreamt about losing baby?

Survival Tips

Sleep Survival for Pregnant Women Episode 1

Even an easy homework like washing dish can make us so tired and need to take a rest. This is the result of the new hormones cycling through the body and progesterone effect. Not mention a lot of strain we have to get through each trimester that makes it more difficult to get well sleep.  So, let’s check how to survive the nights with these tips.

1st Trimester

This is about hormones changes and body’s reaction. The rise in progesterone and HCG causes many women to feel tired continuously.  Though progesterone makes us sleepy, it makes us have to urinate all the time by increasing kidney function.  Add in frequent bathroom breaks per day and it is surprising that any pregnant woman sleeps at all.

Sore breasts as well as constipation and the ever-expanding uterus make discomforting nights. Nausea or “morning sickness”, also makes sleep a challenge.

What Is Normal HCG Level for Pregnancy?

Before all, new moms have to highlight that HCG level can be changed following to pregnancy period and normal level HCG is only one of important indicators of healthy pregnancy.

For new mother who want to know if their HCG level is normal or not, they can use home pregnancy test to measure HCG level since this hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin will rise steadily during the early part of pregnancy. If it is less than 5 mlU/ml (milli-International units per milliliter), you are not pregnant according to American Pregnancy Association standard.  But if the level is above 25 mlU/ml, congratulations!  You are (likely) pregnant.  A transvaginal ultrasound can usually detect a gestational sac after the HCG levels have risen to 1,000 to 2,000. By seven to eight weeks after your last menstrual period, levels of HCG should have risen to between 7,650 and 229,000 mlU/ml. Levels of this hormone will usually top off at between 25,700 and 288,000 mlU/ml by nine to 12 weeks since your last menstrual period. By the third trimester HCG levels may have dropped to a range between 3,640 and 117,000 mlU/ml---still well above a reading of 5 or less for a non-pregnant woman.  Wow!

How is an ectopic pregnancy diagnosed?

After we know what is Ectopic preganacy , what cause and who at risk.  We are keeing check how a doctor diagnose this.

Ectopic pregnancies are diagnosed by your physician, who will probably first perform a pelvic exam to locate pain, tenderness or a mass in the abdomen. Your physician will also use an ultrasound to determine whether the uterus contains a developing fetus.

The measurement of hCG levels is also important. An hCG level that is lower than what would be expected is one reason to suspect an ectopic pregnancy. Low levels of progesterone may also indicate that a pregnancy is abnormal.

Your physician may do a culdocentesis, which is a procedure that involves inserting a needle into the space at the very top of the vagina, behind the uterus and in front of the rectum. The presence of blood in this area may indicate bleeding from a ruptured fallopian tube.

How is an ectopic pregnancy treated?