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Nowadays, the number of families who are planning a pregnancy is increasing. However, more and more people become mothers older than our parents. The reason - changes in priorities. Young people first try to obtain higher education and find a reliable work which will guarantee the financial well-being. So naturally, with the increasing age of the parents and the beginning of a planned pregnancy, there is more anxiety and questions. There are many other reasons too. After all, nobody can deny, that life is composed of contradictions like a book is composed of symbols.
So what a woman and her spouse should know about before starting to plan a baby? Bellow, we are going to share a few most important, however forgotten things everyone should keep in mind.
A visit to the gynecologist
Before planning a pregnancy, a woman should first visit the obstetrician-gynecologist. It is important to clarify your questions, conduct blood and urine tests to make sure there are no changes, which could compromise the pregnancy, the woman or the future child.
According to some specialists, it is necessary to perform an oncocytological cervical test for cervical cancer prevention too. Ultrasound examination of conceivable structures in a small bowl is also required. It is also healthy to go throughout the medical history of infectious diseases which women ever had (chicken pox, rubella, hepatitis B and C, herpes virus, cytomegalovirus infections, and toxoplasmosis). If necessary, the patient is directed to infectious diseases physicians who will help.
How long does it take to get pregnant?
Most of the childbearing-age couples manage to get pregnant within 12 months. If you are failing to become pregnant within 12 months of a regular sexual relationship, you should consult with a fertility specialist.
Diet
Each person is recommended to take care of eating habits. In particularly for women who are planning a pregnancy or women who are already pregnant. Diet should be balanced, with as much freshly prepared food as possible, with a small amount of fat, high in fiber. It is also recommended to eat a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits. Also, when you are planning a pregnancy, in it healthy to regulate body’s weight to normal body mass index.
Folic acid
Folic acid supplementation is recommended for all women. Women should consume at least 0.4 mg per day (pills typically are 0.5 mg) for at least three months before conception and until the twelfth week of pregnancy. It is also easy to find them and get this supplement as well because usually in all drug stores there is a broad range of selection of different folic acid pills enriches with various other materials.
If you have diabetes, you are taking medication for epilepsy and have family members who were born with neural tube defects folic acid is crucial because it reduces the probability for a baby to suffer from these diseases. In those cases of a higher risk of a newborn baby to be born with a neural tube defect, it is necessary to take a higher dose of folic acid. But this, of course, needs to be discussed with your doctor before taking any action first.
Flu
Vaccination is the most effective means of protecting against the flu and its complications caused. The World Health Organization (WHO) since 2005 recommends that all pregnant women should be vaccinated in any parts of pregnancy. The immune response in 2 weeks, so it is most useful to get a vaccine before the flu season.
The effect of immunogenicity of influenza vaccines in pregnant women does not differ from the consequences of the same age non-pregnant women. Inactivated flu vaccine is safe and does not cause side effects nor for the mommy nor the baby.
Smoking, alcohol and drug use
Smoking during pregnancy is, of course, not recommended. If you smoke, it is recommended to quit smoking three months before conception. It is advisable to avoid being in a room where smoking as well because any nicotine in your body might harm your baby.
Caffeine consumption should be reduced to two cups of coffee per day (or four cups of tea). During pregnancy, alcohol and drugs should not be used. For any medication before pregnancy and during pregnancy should be discussed with the family doctor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @02:15PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @04:44PM
Thank god for rel="nofollow".
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 14 2017, @04:34PM
I wonder how many breeding age women we have here on SN.
Obviously its just a SEO boosting page but it is moderately funny to think about, of all topics, they choose the one least likely. They could have posted an epic systemd rant and gotten away with it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 14 2017, @06:41PM
I think the term you wanted was "child bearing age", rather than "breeding age". Animals are bred, women bear children. No, there is no real technical difference, but if you dare to call a woman a breeder (sow, bitch, brood mare, whatever) to her face, she'll probably slap your face for you. ;^)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday February 14 2017, @07:19PM
You ruin all of my dreams... I guess I'll have to throw out my retirement plans for human husbandry. That leaves me with the South Asian-Pacific organic breast milk dairy farm. If breast milk stays popular and mothers keep working, the demand will be there.
Hmmm, I wonder if the butcher shop will take my studs...
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @11:45PM
Someone's seen Soylent Green a few times too many.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:24PM
and mothers keep working, the demand will be there.
Oh, um its for babies yeah that's it.
Other than the possible transmission of disease aspect surely it would be healthier for humans to drink human milk. If you think about it, its really weird that humans drink cow milk. I mean, it provides some nutrition, but it is evolved to feed baby cows not baby (or full grown) humans.
I suppose there's always the lucrative ice cream industry, although shipping frozen "special" ice cream all the way from pacific isles sounds very late stage capitalism.
I dated a girl I guess like 30 years ago now who was into vampires about 20 years before they became cool and her opinion of the whole male blood sucker thing was thinly censored for Victorian sensibilities commentary on the the whole wet-nurse industry or whatever. Although she sometimes ranted about it being a thinly censored for Victorian sensibilities gay bathhouse casual hookup culture thing. Some times she just ranted. She was hot, but crazy, and I was young, so I didn't care at the time, but in retrospect I'm probably lucky she didn't kill me in my sleep or sell my precious bodily fluids or something.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 16 2017, @05:33AM
If you think about it, its really weird that humans drink cow milk. I mean, it provides some nutrition, but it is evolved to feed baby cows not baby (or full grown) humans.
Not seeing the weirdness myself. Milk bearing cows turn low value food (hay, grass, etc) into human food. If somehow you got me to lactate, we'd turn human food into even more expensive human food. Yay. And it totally would not be weird to drink khallow milk. Totally.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday February 19 2017, @02:01PM
Milk bearing cows turn low value food (hay, grass, etc) into human food.
Steaks, yeah.
Although you do have an interesting point in that bazillion animals can turn indigestible plants into real food, but cowmilk is a continuous, large, long term source rather than point source.
Still, with industrial ag, it should have been obsolete a century ago.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @11:28AM
if you dare to call a woman a breeder (sow, bitch, brood mare, whatever) to her face, she'll probably slap your face for you.
Your post reads just like a Valentine's Day card.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:25PM
You must be Muslim.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:12PM
I saw a "Valentines day sucks" heart shaped box of candies at Walgreens last night which would be Valentines day for me (and maybe you plus or minus international date lines)
I also saw one with a picture of a beer stein, which is kind of a mixed message in that I'm sure the chocolates aren't beer filled or flavored. Or are they?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 15 2017, @05:54PM
Where's all the AC robot "discussion?" That's the best part!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @05:23PM
I wanted to know who "we" are, since a singular handle with a female sounding name posted it.
The fact it was a cut and paste (considering she isn't a we) made me lost interest nearly immediately for some reason.
I also found reason to not believe that because young people are waiting later to finish school and get a job to be financially stable and ready to support the needs of a child--they are more anxious? More anxious than what? Were they anxious before when they didnt have a child? Are they more anxious than people who did no planning at all and that their ignorance was blissful?
It seems to me that such parents to be would be less anxious, knowing they completed school and have a plan
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @12:50AM
You left out the most important planning tip of all: plan to have children in your 20s, preferably starting no later than around 25.
Don't be ignorant of basic fertility. It drops like a rock after 30.
All these celebrities you see having children in their early 40s lull women into a false belief that it's just fashion that we used to have children younger. Just as celebrities stay younger looking by surgery, they have access to fertility doctors and $$$ that ordinary people do not. They can have multiple IVF cycles or even pay a woman in India or elsewhere to carry their baby conceived from eggs donated by another woman.
Don't wait until it's too late.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16 2017, @04:13AM
I've dashed off a note to inform the University of Warwick webmaster about the hacked page.