Archive for the ‘Prenatal Health’ Category
Routine Prenatal Tests
During pregnancy, medical tests may be done as part of routine prenatal care. These tests allow your doctor to monitor your health and your baby.
First prenatal visit
During the first prenatal visit, doctor will order blood tests and urine tests to identify:
Conditions that could be harmful to the health of the baby (eg, hepatitis B, syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections). The doctor will ask if you want a test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Antibodies that show whether or not immune to rubella (German measles) and chickenpox, which can cause birth defects if the mother is infected for the first time during pregnancy: Read the rest of this entry »
Nutritional Status and Pregnancy: Maintaining Nutrition
How to maintain adequate nutritional status?
Good nutritional status is achieved and maintained on a diet adequate in quality and quantity of food. Although pregnant women meet their own needs and those of the fetus, it is necessary to eat for two, or even good.
Modular recommended some dietary components:
Energy: It is recommended that in the first quarter increase in 150kcal daily total intake for the second and third trimester is recommended an increase of approximately 350 kcal.
Protein: It is recommended an increase of 4.7 mg/day which equates to increase in a serving of meat or equivalent daily intake. Read the rest of this entry »
Nutritional Status and Pregnancy
Nutritional status is a factor that, in many cases decisively the course of gestation. It is known that states of malnutrition and/or deficiency can cause alterations in the course of pregnancy, preterm delivery, fetal malformations, abortions, including some instances of severe malnutrition can cause women to situations of infertility, thus preventing fertilization.
All this has led to ensure that it is essential to proper nutrition to ensure normal during pregnancy. Currently it is recommended not only that the woman is normonutrida at the time of conception but also during pregnancy and lactation nutrition maintains a level sufficient to meet the demands of their own and those of the fetus.
How to know if the nutritional status is appropriate?
The assessment of nutritional status should be done the doctor that follows the course of pregnancy or nutritionist and they will base their diagnosis in the evaluation of the following parameters: Read the rest of this entry »