38 week of pregnancy for mom and baby
By this time the fruit most often weighs 2800 - 3200gram at an increase of 48-52 cm. All its organs and systems are already prepared for life outside the mother's tummy. There are no leaps in development, all functions are smoothly and gradually improved.
38 weeks of pregnancy is a periodfinal formation of pulmonary apparatus. The lining of the alveoli is completed by coating them with a special substance - a surfactant, which will prevent the alveoli from sticking together. A special center is formed in the brain, which is responsible for breathing. All this will later give the child the opportunity to make his first independent breath.
The liver and pancreatic fetus continue to develop, the 38th week of pregnancy is not final, because they will function fully in full after the baby is born.
Kidneys and the brain also gradually continue to develop. Now the child is extremely sensitive to the mood of the mother.
It starts to push and rotate much less. It is not enough for him now, the head sank down, but his smallest movements will not only be felt by the mother, but also by the moving bumps on his stomach: the elbow sticks out, but the heel moves.
Still, since 28 weeks, in the intestines of a childaccumulates meconium - a mixture of digested dead cells, which he swallowed with amniotic fluid. Very often meconium begins to leave the intestine in the first hours after childbirth.
For Mom
When there is 38 weeks of pregnancy, then the breastit becomes very large, milk can sometimes leak from it. It's time to start wearing a tight bra made of natural fabric with special removable pads, which will help a lot after giving birth, during the whole period of breastfeeding.
The weight of mommy ceases to grow, and even begins to decrease. During the last few weeks of pregnancy, a kilogram is often lost - one and a half.
A lot of young mothers are afraid not to notice on time that the birth began, so they will learn as much as possible about what signs and the first symptoms of the fact that the birth is already close.
In general, the chemical mechanism for starting a genericthe nature has provided faultless: from 38 weeks the placenta starts to "grow old" slowly, reduces the hormonal function. As a result, the child feels a shortage of sufficient components for proper breathing and nutrition, is stressed because of this. In the blood of the mother, the "stress hormone" of the baby-cortisol, which gives the body to understand that it's time to begin childbirth. Uterus, after receiving a signal from the brain, begins to actively reduce - fights begin.
The first birth is extremely rare, andlast, as a rule, 12-18 hours. Therefore, you will have time to get to the hospital in time, do not run there with the appearance of the first bouts, if you do not have anything to worry about, there are no bloody discharge, and the fetal movements do not subside.
Coming soon
The 38th week of pregnancy is often accompanied by signs that the birth is approaching.
One such characteristic is the extraordinaryease and recovery, which Mom feels for a day or two before delivery. Fatigue is replaced by enthusiasm and a desire to do all things at once, to arrange general cleaning, rearrangement - any "revolution" in the house.
If 38 weeks of pregnancy have come, pulls the stomach andthe area of the sacrum, presses into the pelvis and rectum, it means that the baby's head has moved even further down to the cervix, the pelvic bones begin to diverge, the birth canals are preparing for the baby's passage.
Discharge from the vagina can intensify, will departmucous plug or begin to leak amniotic fluid - all these are signs of an early onset of labor. And if there was a pinkish highlight, the birth can begin literally in the next 24 hours. This color of excretions suggests that there is a gradual opening of the cervix, which is accompanied by rupture of small blood vessels.
Even before giving birth, the body strives in every possible wayso nausea at the 38th week of pregnancy, vomiting, diarrhea, upset stomach, fever (while you definitely could not get anything to poison) mean that you will see the baby very soon.
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