On the fortieth week of pregnancy child's weight will be about 3,350 - 3,500 grams, and its growth will be between 51 and 55 cm. Your baby is now the size resembles a pumpkin.
Most likely, your pipsqueak decides to be born just this week.You finally see your baby and hear its first cry, that every newborn notifies you and all others that he was born!Once the baby's head will appear for vulvar ring, birth attendant physician with a special vacuum suction removes mucus from the respiratory tract of the child, so the baby will make his first breath!Life outside the mother's stomach started!
After that all around you zavertitsya - the doctor cut the umbilical cord, handle the umbilical wound and hooked a special clamp that will disappear within three - fifteen days.Then you call sex, height and weight of your baby, and is likely to put it to you in the stomach.Next you will be taken to the processing crumbs (vernix and wiping blood from your birth
After the birth of the baby neonatologists will evaluate its overall condition and how he suffered birth.For this assessment uses "Apgar score" - assessment on a 10-point scale, vital signs of a newborn baby.
During the evaluation Apgar doctor pays attention to the five options, each of which receives from 0 to 2 points:
- breathing baby;
- heart rate for one minute;
- color of the skin of the child;
- muscle tone;
- presence of reflexes (reflex irritability).
Such a test is carried out first in the first minute of life, and then repeated in the fifth minute after birth of the child.The results are recorded as a fraction, such as 9/10 and entered into a medical card mothers.
If your child's vital signs will not cause any concern, you will be with your baby transferred to a regular room.Congratulations on the beginning of a new, exciting life, full added worries, but at the same time so happy! ..
On the fortieth week of pregnancy day comes reckoned gynecologist as the expected delivery date.If your baby is not in a hurry to appear in this world, it can be a little "push»:
- first you most need to be psychologically ready to leave!Scientists and psychologists proved that the fear of confinement and unwillingness to him the mother of the future are able to block the onset of labor of women at the subconscious level;
- stimulation of nipples and breasts is a push for the release of the hormone oxytocin into the bloodstream, which can cause uterine contractions, thus triggering the beginning of the clashes;
- sex without condom use and sexual intercourse without interruption (ie in contact with the sperm in the vagina) prepare the cervix for disclosure.Prostaglandins (hormones in male seminal fluid) soften the cervix and lead to the beginning of its smoothing and disclosure.In addition, during a violent orgasm in women may also start fights.
If all your efforts have not yielded the desired results, and your child is not in a hurry to be born, do not despair!In fact, only about 4-5% of women give birth in precisely delivered time!The bulk of pregnancy (around 95-96%) give birth to one or two weeks earlier or later than the fortieth week of pregnancy .So, you still have time!