Why Pregnancy Planning is So Important? (1 part)

The birth of a child is one of the most important events in a woman’s life

In Western countries, doctors encourage women to pre-pregnancy planning.
Planning of pregnancy allows providing a healthy environment for fetal development and prevents birth defects.

Do not DELAY Motherhood for Too Long!

60% of American women plan their pregnancy

Although in most cases a normal pregnancy is not planned, preliminary measures improve the chances for peaceful nine months and giving birth to a healthy baby.
Currently in the U.S. to 60% of the pregnancies are planned.
Recommendations focus on proper nutrition, adequate intake of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, weight control, maintaining physical activity and implementation of appropriate exercise, limit the intake of drugs and alcohol, immunizations and genetic counseling.
The main benefit of planning pregnancy is preventing cases of adoption of drugs and substances that harm in early pregnancy. Seventeen days after conception began development of the organs of the future child. The period before this is also not without significance – the fertilized egg develops into an embryo in which each structure and process are particularly sensitive to external factors, such that it provides the body of the pregnant woman. There are also women in the first quarter continued to be scarce, although uterine bleeding who mistook for menstruation. They understand about pregnancy after weight gain or increased abdominal area.
Taking drugs that pose a potential risk to the fetus, it is also desirable to avoid a period of 3 to 6 months before pregnancy.

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To ensure normal development and successful outcome of pregnancy should be controlled health in the presence or predisposition to high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney, thyroid and heart disease, not only during but also before pregnancy.
It is important that the mother has built immunity to rubella and chicken pox. In the absence of antibodies against rubella and varicella immunization is recommended. The meeting with rubella virus during pregnancy poses a risk of serious harm to the fetus.
After immunization requires a minimum of 30 days in which plans for pregnancy should be delayed.
It is a study of hepatitis C. In the case of the carrier must provide measures to protect the baby from the virus. Immunization of newborn in the first hours after birth protects it from disease.

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