It depends on the doctor and the hospital. It is very possible to get tested for the presence of antibodies to HIV or AIDS, to protect the baby, the doctor and nurses.
What’s next visit to the doctor?
7. The next visit. Fixing a turn to the upcoming visit to the doctor, to be within 4 weeks. The following visits will be much shorter than the first.
Will be reduced largely to control blood pressure, to take a urine analysis (mainly by the presence of albumin, because if it is present is an indication that the kidneys are not working well), and weight gain.
The future mother will have the opportunity to report any abnormality to the doctor who has noticed, and in this case will receive appropriate advice.
After the 28th. week, the reviews tend to be more inclusive. The doctor will carry a review of the abdomen in addition to other procedures. It will control the height of the bottom of the uterus, as this gives a good indication of the rate of growth of the baby.
Also check the position of the fetus in the womb, the doctor can easily determine where you are each part of the body of the baby, where are the head, back and buttocks. It will control the sound of fetal heartbeat through a stethoscope obstétrico special, and their level of activity. All these data are important, and if they deviate from the norm is to find out why.
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Yes, and it is very important too.
5. Review of the pelvis. For this, the doctor inserted into the vagina instrument called a speculum. This allows you to have a good view of the vaginal canal and wide neck of the womb, and part of the womb which joins the upper wall of the vagina.
The doctor then proceeded to examine each part carefully. If there are small hemorrhages, is found that a sample of blood for pathological examinations.
You may also apply topical (tocaciones) to the neck of the womb with a special ointment to make a test (test), which was also sent to the laboratory for pathological examination.
This was followed by a manual review. This way your fingers feel that explore the array. This was discovered abnormalities that could play an important role in the later stages of pregnancy. The size and position of the matrix can be identified by touch, and takes note of the results.
6. Laboratory tests. Besides the evidence mentioned above, the doctor will arrange to have carried out some important tests and analysis. Almost always include several blood tests. It is a calculation of hemoglobin present. This way you can know what quality is blood. If it is not very good, we need to administer treatment.
It should also know what is the blood of the mother future, because it could be vital later in the case of an abnormal loss of blood. These groups are A, B, AB and 0 (zero), plus the Rh factor (for Rhesus) when it is present. This is also very important for all women, but especially for mothers. Today, you can prevent many of the disasters of the past when there were serious complications due to this factor in the blood (Rh). The progress of modern medicine has virtually eliminated the problems that arose in the wake of some earlier treatments. We will refer to this again later. The key is whether or not the patient has the Rh factor.
Examinations to prevent infections
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Sure. And we need to seize the future mom all the benefits that are available. Nobody can force you to visit the doctor regularly. Nobody can force anyone to use the most excellent services that exist today. The same person has to make careful decisions in this regard.
For women who have normal pregnancies, we recommend that you visit the doctor every four weeks until the 28th. week. After that they should be fortnightly visits until the 36th. week. After the visits will be weekly until the birth of the baby.
In case of problems, the visits should be more frequent. It is the doctor to tell how often and when to come visit.
No desoiga the advice of your doctor. Do not believe that you are someone very special, it can dispense with regular medical examinations. Just because it has never been sick, not to say that is no longer able to meet the requirements. Andalusia Atérrese plan. Accurately follow your doctor’s advice in every detail. This way you can ensure a pregnancy safer and more comfortable. This also means that you are concerned with the unborn baby. After all, at this stage of your life, you are fully responsible for the welfare of her baby as his own.
The first visit
We have already identified some of the things we seek to find the doctor at the first prenatal visit. If your own doctor is responsible for addressing it throughout pregnancy, surely will test for that first visit. Or will the obstetrician in the first to make it.
What does a woman who happens then?
1. History of the current pregnancy. The doctor will want to know what time you had your last menstrual period, and asks for details of the symptoms you are having with the idea of whether she is pregnant or not. In many cases this is entirely obvious.
2. History of previous pregnancies. The doctor will want to know something about the previous pregnancies if they expired, or if there was spontaneous or induced abortions. Any particular difficulty that occurred during or after pregnancy is also important. If babies were normal weight if they had a right, and the approximate length of each side, all this will help when it comes to evaluating this case. The doctor will also ask whether there was blood or not.
3. Previous history of disease. Since certain diseases can be important, you will be asked about past and current diseases. Diabetes, heart disease and kidney can be very important.
4. Physical examination. The doctor then will conduct a full physical examination. Be reviewed every organ, every appliance and every system. Will examine the heart, lungs and digestive system, as well as everything else. Will examine the breasts and nipples, too. The doctor will want to know what their average weight before pregnancy. The weighed, it will review the height and it will control blood pressure. Indeed, this control is one of the most important. It is essential that the doctor available data, it will serve for comparison with subsequent checks.
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It is very true. It is essential that consultation be made as soon as possible. If there are any questions about pregnancy, consultation is mandatory.
The first visit serves as a mold to be followed. But besides this, the doctor gives you a series of basic information that you used to compare the health status of the patient in the future. This can be invaluable, especially if some of the complications in later stages, and that usually happens with some people. You can not know from the outset whether or not you are one of those cases “at risk”.
Prenatal consultations are at least three important objectives:
1. Make sure the mother completed so healthy pregnancy (or better) than before.
2. Detect any physical or psychological as soon as possible and correct it as soon as possible.
3. The mother gives birth to a healthy and normal baby.
Only in the last 50 years has been given much attention to the 40 weeks of pregnancy as the one that lasts 14 hours delivery, on average.
The value and benefits of this is reflected in the decrease of the mortality of both mothers and babies, and just take a look at the dramatic reduction of these rates to get the true benefits of the current emphasis on prenatal care.
If you have ever had the opportunity to visit an old cemetery, you will have indelible impression that the truth of what has been said.
Indeed. A fleeting glance at the headstones allows us to verify the number of children (and sometimes mothers) who died, no doubt at birth or soon after. The historical novels, and even the stories of the elderly members of the family, we put up with the disasters that occurred yesterday, and met regularly to children and babies of almost every family.
They were certainly bad days. Prenatal care or did not exist or were very low. Midwives did what they could. Doctors generally poorly equipped, and hospitals did not have any hope in their attempts to deal with a delivery that was more or less normal. There were no antibiotics, anesthesia adequate, safe blood transfusion or the classification of blood groups, and much still needed to reach such methods as ultrasound to monitor fetal development.
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Yes sir. Many doctors used another method. Simply add 10 days to UPM, and deducted three months. This leads to a very precise date, then it is projected forward.
For example, say that the PSU was June 10.
June 10 + 10 days = June 20, less three months = March 20.
ICP will be March 20 then the following year.
It’s as simple as that, and is remarkably accurate. Many doctors use this method quickly, and the calculation can be done in seconds. In fact, patients are always impressed by the speed at which one arrives at a time, especially when they have already calculated using a table, and discovered that the dates coincide.
There are various other methods to determine the date of the birth of the baby. The timing of pataditas “is sometimes used to make an estimate. It refers to the moment when they feel the movements of the baby for the first time. But as they can start the 16th. and 24th. weeks, its value is certainly limited.
As time passes, the doctor usually measured the height of the fund, ie, pressed the hand of the patient’s abdomen to see as far as the “bottom” of the matrix that is increasing in size.
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This is a very logical question, which can answer very soon. In fact, you can calculate the same date.
There are many ways to determine the date of birth, and all are more or less the same results. The duration of pregnancy, on average, is 266 days. The number of days that elapse between the time of conception to the moment of birth when the fetus becomes a person to breathe, a baby completely separated from his mother.
But convenience is customary to calculate this time not from the design, but the first day of the last menstrual cycle. This, in a woman with a normal cycle of 26 to 32 days is 280 days.
Equivalent to nine months calendars (or ten months “moles” of 28 days each).
The abbreviation UPM (last menstrual period) is used much doctors and hospitals to refer to that date so important. From there you can easily calculate the time will come when the baby. This refers to the acronym PCI, which means: “Calculated Period of Internment.”
To avoid loss of time which involves adding 280 days to UPM, are designed tables that clearly. In the table above the top line indicates the UPM each day of the year. Immediately below is for the ICP. So this table can give you the answer in a moment. We have included this table to give a quick answer to your question.
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The truth is that at this moment that is not happening, as a rule, either in Europe or in any progressive country. It is true that there are people who feel this is safer, and want to be present at the time, and share the comforts of home with the mother when the time comes.
But these arguments are totally worth, because the risks outweigh the benefits. The greatest of these is an emergency, especially a profuse bleeding immediately after childbirth. They usually occur at terrifying speeds and require immediate attention and expertise. That simply can not be done in a house.
If a patient asks for the address at home, what do you say?
Very few do, because behind that request usually some rare beliefs. I politely explained my reasons to convince them that it is not safe, and try to persuade them to adopt more sensible, safe and practical, the only acceptable now in an advanced society.
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Many women long to respond in a certain hospital or clinic. This is because a close relative or a friend turned to this institution for admission. You may have seen this person in this institution, all liked, and decided that it was the place for it when the time came. What we can tell you about this?
Well, it is likely that the friend has talked a lot about the virtues of the place. Will have counted how happy he was there, how efficient the services were, how kind, considerate and attentive nurses were, and how it was delicious and well-prepared food.
These are important, certainly. If the efficiency of the institution was also extended to the more practical aspects of medical care, if they were designed to meet all requirements as possible to meet all contingencies and emergencies, then this institution is the ideal place for you.
But there are some factors that should be taken into account. If such an institution, no matter how good it is, is far from where you live, and half is inaccessible, then it may not be the ideal place after all. Think they’ll have to live there for a few days (more or less, depending on how you go). No doubt you expect frequent visits from family and friends. If you are going to be rather far away, the possibility of such visits will not be much. No matter now, but it will be a factor that will determine whether the days spent in the institution will be happy or not. At least, it is worthwhile to keep in mind this factor.
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Of course. Most likely, the result is a particular specialist. If that happens, if your doctor suggests you see Dr. X, then request an appointment with joy with Dr. X. And follow him for the remainder of the prenatal period. He assisted in the birth, and address while in the hospital. Finally, the specialist will see once or twice more, and longer if necessary until you get discharged and are back home after hospitalization.
Throughout the world the picture is changing rapidly, and Latin America is no exception. We can say that changes every month. There is talk of patients are seen by a specialist, and are linked, so to speak, to the hospital where interned, and not a specialist. Nevertheless, the basic principle is the same. Getting to see a specialist during the internment is the best in many cases for a number of women.
In short, let your doctor for guidance from the first visit, and follow its recommendations. Be in good hands.
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