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It is probable that you are already in the week 38 of gestation and that you have a big belly. Again the gynecologist will ask you on your general state to update your history. He will ask you on new habits, or changes in your daily life. The tension will take you and it will weigh you. It is possible that he asks you if you have noticed fetal movements. In this visit the vaginal tact is very important to verify if dilation exists, what would indicate an imminent childbearing.
THE EIGHTH CONSULTATION OF CONTROL
There will be realized the measurement of the uterine height, useful practice to evaluate the growth delay intraútero. There are risk factors for the delay of the growth intraútero:
- Important illnesses.
- Low maternal size.
- Under weight pregestacional and lacking in profit in weight in the gestation.
- Habit tabáquico.
- Addiction to the alcohol and other drugs.
- Personal precedents of fetal death or of delay of the growth intaútero.
TESTS
The tests in this occasion will be:
- Analysis of urine and blood: Conditions that might be harmful to the health of his baby (for example, hepatitis B, syphilis and other infections of sexual transmission).
- Antibodies that show if it is immune or not to the German measles (German measles) and to the chicken pox, illnesses that can cause birth defects if the mother contracts them for the first time during the pregnancy.
- Anemia (under inventory of red globules), what might do that she feels particularly tired and, in some cases, to increase his risk of premature childbearing.
- Bacteria in the urine. Up to 10 per cent of the pregnant women it has bacteria in the urine, which indicates an infection in the urinary tract. The majority does not present symptoms but even an asymptomatic infection can propagate and come to the kidneys, where it can represent a serious risk for the mother and the baby. The infections of the urinary tract talk each other with antibiotics that are sure both for the mother and for the baby.
- Sugar in the urine. This can be a diabetes sign. It is possible that his doctor asks him that additional tests should be realized if sugar is detected to him in the urine.
- Protein in the urine. This can indicate an infection of the urinary tract or, in a later stage of the pregnancy, a condition related to the pregnancy that arterial high pressure includes. It is possible that his doctor asks him that additional tests should be realized if it detects protein in the urine.
- Ultrasound scan: The baby is already too big to be able to observe him therefore the achievement of more ultrasound scans usually does not happen.
It is very probable that you put yourself of childbearing shortly. The doctor also will comment with you on the place where you are going to give birth, what you need to take etc... since it is possible that you put yourself of childbearing before the next visit. He has to explain himself therefore which are the symptoms that will alert you of the arrival of the baby.
Now he will want to see you every 15 days.
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WHAT DOCTOR CAN TREAT ME?
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