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On having remained a pregnant woman. the woman is responsible for the health of the baby as well as for her own health. You and the child depend one on other. The needs for growth of the baby can affect to his health in the same way that his habits affect to the health of the baby. From the moment in which it remains pregnant until his baby is born, it is important that it receives the regular care of a doctor as well as the prenatal education. The function of the doctor is to work with you so that his pregnancy is sure and this experience is as agreeable as possible.

His commitment with the prenatal care debit to start to the first pregnancy sign (as soon as it has the first delay of the menstrual period). During the visits, this one will spend a lot of time to the doctor trying to meet you and to his family and revising his medical record. During the first visit, it will do to him a finished physical examination and a series of tests as, for example, blood test and urine.

In the successive visits, the doctor will keep on controlling his health as well as that of not born baby and it will always be ready to answer to any question that you should have on the pregnancy. These regular visits to the doctor are extremely important, since they will allow you and his doctor to detect any problem of the pregnancy before it is serious. If it has problems, the doctor will send to him a specialist. Some of the problems that the doctor can help him to solve are:

• Diabetes, so much in the shape of diabetes gestacional (an illness that develops during the pregnancy and that, therefore, disappears in most cases after the childbearing) as of diabetes mellitus existing (an illness that prevents the body from using the food of correct form).
• Twins or triplets, because the multiple childbearings increase the risk factors for the pregnancy and the childbearing.
• Infections, both in the mother and in the fetus in development, and toxemia.

The toxemia is a complication of the pregnancy that can begin between the week 20 and 24 and can provoke light or mortal problems. The signs and symptoms are a distension, changes of vision, high pressure of the blood, headaches and abdominal pains.

With the suitable medical care, the above mentioned problems can talk each other and you will be able to relax and enjoy his pregnancy. Together with the physical care for you and the baby, it is important that it receives a good prenatal education.

The doctors, the hospitals, the associations of the community and his personnel offer prenatal short courses and can answer any question that should have on topics as important as the type of food that must take, all that he needs to rest and the substances that he must avoid (for example: the caffeine, the tobacco and other drugs). The prenatal short courses will help you and to his family to be prepared for the day in which of to light to his baby and for the care of the child when it is at home.

The prenatal short courses can help him to treat any economic worry that it has as well as advise him on topics like the fact of being a single mother. The visits of prenatal care can change according to the individual needs but, in general, he must visit the doctor during the pregnancy as the following program:

• until the fifth month of pregnancy, a visit every four weeks;
• from 5 months until 7 months and a half of pregnancy, a visit every three weeks;
• from 7 months and a half until 8 months and a half of pregnancy, a visit every 2 weeks;
• once a week from 8 months and a half up to the childbearing.

SO THAT THE VISITS TO THE DOCTOR ARE MORE COMFORTABLE AND CONSTRUCTIVE

Go to the bath before the examination. It is possible that the nurse asks him for a sample of this urine to do a test. The doctor will realize a pelvic examination in the first visit and perhaps other when it comes at the end of the pregnancy. During the routine visits the doctor will realize abdominal examinations to measure the size of the womb and to examine the fetus. Since the bladder is placed in the top part of the womb, a full bladder would make the examination difficult. Take clothes wide and easy to remove for the examination, and note down the questions and worries that he wants to consult to the doctor. Always have to hand role and pencil to note down questions for the doctor. If it takes the notes quinternion with it also it will be able to aim at his answers.

Together with the visits to the doctor, it is important that, at home:

• Avoid the persons that he knows that they suffer infections as, for example, cold, flu or any contagious illness as the measles, the mumps or the chicken pox.
• Stop taking caffeine and alcohol.
• Do not smoke cigarets and avoid the areas with smoke.
• Do not take any medicine without recipe, how, for example, aspirin or vitamins, unless the doctor approves it and does not take any other medicine.
• Sleep every night eight hours as minimum and, if it is possible, rest during the day, with the high feet.
• Realize moderate exercise how, for example, to walk or to swim and the normal caloric consumption increases in ten per cent.

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