The journey of pregnancy

  Pregnant women need a caring and supportive partner and family because support will lead to the well being of a, mother and a baby.

  Picture of cephalic presentation Normal or cephalic presentation   is when the baby is positioned head down facing mother's back and the head ready to enter pelvis.  It is discovered that most babies settle into this position. Was this information useful or not?

 Breech presentation is when a baby's buttocks feet or both are in place to come out first during delivery. It happens when there is more than one fetus in the uterus or when there is too much or too little amniotic fluid. Some breech babies can be safely delivered through the vagina but doctors deliver them by C-section. My advice to pregnant women out there, you should always consult your heath practitioner. Do ultrasound scan especially when you are in third trimester, you should know the position of your baby and the method of birth delivery.  Don't wait until you are in labor.

  Signs that shows that labour is nearing Burning or shooting nerve pain in your pelvis that is caused by the baby's position.  The strong desire to get home ready for the baby Signs of labor are strong or regular contractions and pain in a woman's belly and lower back.  This signs also include bloody mucus discharge and water breaking. This signs shows that a woman is in labor and health practitioner should be consulted immediately.

  Quiting smoking during pregnancy is the most important thing you do for the health of your baby and you.  It lowers chaces of: √ Stillbirth √ Miscarriage  √ Growth restriction √ Cot death I hope pregnant women will quit smoking, start protecting and embracing that little life.

 Pregnant woman should not consume the following: •Undercooked or raw fish •Raw eggs  •Caffeine  •Acohol •Unwashed products These products can cause a serious life-threatening illness fetus. Do you know other products that can be harmful to the fetus? 

•√Exercise Regularly🧘‍  •√Maintain a healthy diet🍌   •√Stay hydrated   •√Take a daily prenatal vitamins  •√Go to your prenatal checkups  •√Listen to your body🤰  Dear readers, i hope you are still learning.

Dear viewer, did you know that pregnant women can fight anxiety?

Anxiety occur anytime during pregnancy, it may appear after delivery but the highest rates of anxiety disorder appear in the first trimester due to hormornal changes. High levels of anxiety during pregnancy can affect mother and a baby. In early pregnancy, anxiety results in a loss of fetus, in the second and the third trimester it leads to a decrease in birth weight.

Pregnancy is a period in which a fetus develops inside woman's womb. It usually last forty weeks (9 months) which are divided into three segments called trimesters. Follow the picture below to understand the changes that women and a fetus udergo in the period of nine months.

Depression is a feeling of sadness. It's natural to feel emotional during pregnancy. If you are feeling more sadness more than feeling happy it's depression and this will result into negative consequences on infant which are giving birth to a small baby (low birth weight), prenatal and postpartum depression (will be discussed on the next blog) In the journey of pregnancy women go throuhg a lot and they need outmost support.

Teenage pregnancy is a pregnancy in a female under the age of 20. Teenagers are falling pregnant at an alarming rate, some of them want to end theirs lives, some are depressed and others dropped out. We are all human beings, everyone can slip so do teenagers. It's not a sin to fall pregnant at young age. I agree that teenage pregnancy is wrong but do you think these teenagers deserve our wrath or the criticism? Do they need our support?

In the second blog i explained what cryptic pregnancy is, so today i am proceeding with the complications that are caused by stealth pregnancy. In cryptic pregnancy, women discover that they are pregnant in later terms of pregnancy. As a result, some women may have unassisted deliveries because they have not prepared themselves for birth and they may experience emotional disturbances. After giving birth a woman may disassociate from her baby, increasing the risk of abuse, child neglect, harm an infant and death.  Yes, You can go into labor without knowing you were pregnant. What will you do if you find yourself in this situation?

Cryptic pregnancy is prengancy in which a woman is unaware that she is exepecting a baby until halfway through it or even up until labor or birth. It is sometimes called stealth or denied pregnancy. Dear readers, this can happen if someone recently gave birth it may take time for their hormones return to the regular cycle. It can also happen whether a woman is using contraceptives or not. Even stress can influence hormones and disrupt common pregnancy symptoms. Did you know about cryptic pregnancy and what do you say about this type of pregnancy?