Saturday, August 31, 2013

Pregnancy symptoms: Top ten signs you might be pregnant


Pregnancy symptoms: Top ten signs you might be pregnant



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Could you be pregnant? Some symptoms may show up about the time you've missed a period – or a week or two later. In fact, 7 out of 10 women have symptoms by the time they're six weeks pregnant.
If you're not keeping track of your menstrual cycle or if it varies widely from one month to the next, you may not be sure when to expect your period. But if you start to experience some of the symptoms below – not all women get them all – and you're wondering why you haven't gotten your period, you may very well be pregnant. Take a home pregnancy test to find out for sure!
If you are pregnant, visit our Newly Pregnant areafor a quick overview of what's in store.

10. Food aversions

If you're newly pregnant, it's not uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a bologna sandwich or a cup of coffee, and for certain aromas to trigger your gag reflex. Though no one knows for sure, this may be a side effect of rapidly increasing amounts of estrogen in your system. You may also find that certain foods you used to enjoy are suddenly completely repulsive to you.

9. Mood swings

It's common to have mood swings during pregnancy, partly because of hormonal changes that affect your levels of neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain). Everyone responds differently to these changes. Some moms-to-be experience heightened emotions, both good and bad; others feel more depressed or anxious.
Note: If you've been feeling sad or hopeless or unable to cope with your daily responsibilities, or you're having thoughts of harming yourself, call your healthcare provider or a mental health professional right away.

8. Abdominal bloating

Hormonal changes in early pregnancy may leave you feeling bloated, similar to the feeling some women have just before their period. That's why your clothes may feel more snug than usual at the waistline, even early on when your uterus is still quite small.

7. Frequent urination

Shortly after you become pregnant, hormonal changes prompt a chain of events that raise the rate of blood flow through your kidneys. This causes your bladder to fill more quickly, so you need to pee more often. This symptom may start as early as six weeks into your first trimester.
Frequent urination will continue – or intensify – as your pregnancy progresses. Your blood volume rises dramatically during pregnancy, which leads to extra fluid being processed and ending up in your bladder. The problem is compounded as your growing baby exerts more pressure on your bladder.

6. Fatigue

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Feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make thatexhausted. No one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but it's possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are contributing to your sleepiness. Of course, morning sickness and having to urinate frequently during the night can add to your sluggishness, too.

You should start to feel more energetic once you hit your second trimester, although fatigue usually returns late in pregnancy when you're carrying around a lot more weight and some of thecommon discomforts of pregnancy make it more difficult to get a good night's sleep.

5. Tender, swollen breasts

One of the early signs of pregnancy is sensitive, sore breasts caused by rising levels of hormones. The soreness and swelling may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before your period. Your discomfort should diminish significantly after the first trimester, as your body adjusts to the hormonal changes.


4. Nausea

For some women, morning sickness doesn't hit until about a month after conception, though for others it may start a week or two earlier. And not just in the morning, either: Pregnancy-related nausea (with or without vomiting) can be a problem morning, noon, or night.
About half of pregnant women with nausea feel complete relief by the beginning of the second trimester. For most others it takes another month or so for the queasiness to ease up. A lucky few escape it altogether.

3. A missed period

If you're usually pretty regular and your period doesn't arrive on time, you may decide to do a pregnancy test before you notice any of the above symptoms. But if you're not regular or you're not keeping track of your cycle, nausea and breast tenderness and extra trips to the bathroom may signal pregnancy before you realize you didn't get your period.

2. Your basal body temperature stays high

If you've been charting your basal body temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed elevated for 18 days in a row, you're probably pregnant.
And finally ...

1. The proof: A positive home pregnancy test

In spite of what you might read on the box, many home pregnancy tests are not sensitive enough to reliably detect pregnancy until about a week after a missed period. So if you decide to take a test earlier than that and get a negative result, try again in a few days. Remember that a baby starts to develop before you can tell you're pregnant, so take care of your health while you're waiting to find out.
Once you've gotten a positive result, make an appointment with your practitioner. Now head over to our pregnancy area. Also, don't forget to update your profile and sign up for our My Baby This Week newsletter. Congratulations!



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Dr. Suzanne and Valentine



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Saturday, August 24, 2013

For Many Pregnant Moms, Webster Technique is the Key to a Safer Birth

For Many Pregnant Moms, Webster Technique is the Key to a Safer Birth

As a mom navigating her way through a high-risk pregnancy, news of one more complication just leaves you with more questions and concerns. When the news is that your baby is not in the optimal position, your questions go something like this: Will my baby turn on its own? Will I need external cephalic version? Can I even have that? Is it safe? Will I need to have a C-section?
If your particular high-risk situation doesn’t automatically require Cesarean, a mal- presentation greatly increases that chance. Even in the case of low-risk pregnancies, abnormal position near the end of term commonly results in surgical birth. In fact, 2003 data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that 87.2% of all breech presentations were delivered by Cesarean. Today, the rate is almost 100%, as OBs are no longer trained to deliver breech. 

If your baby has not moved into its optimal position by approximately 36–37 weeks, your doctor may suggest attempting external cephalic version. In this procedure, your doctor tries to turn your baby while still in the uterus by pushing on the baby with his or her hands through your abdomen. This procedure can bring about complications for any mom, including vaginal bleeding, premature rupture of membranes, fetal distress and premature labor. For many high-risk pregnancy situations, external cephalic version would not be recommended due to these possible complications. For some high-risk pregnancies, external cephalic version is contraindicated, meaning it is not even considered as a possible option due to the high likelihood that it would cause serious problems.
So, once you and your doctor realize that your baby is not optimally positioned, the most likely approach in a high risk pregnancy is to wait and see if your baby will spontaneously turn. If your doctor is comfortable with the idea of external cephalic version in your case, you may weigh the pros and cons and decide to give it a try. Unfortunately, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2000), external version only has a 58% success rate. If you cannot try, or are not comfortable trying, external cephalic version, or if it is unsuccessful, you are usually left waiting again for your baby to turn on his or her own. At this point, you will be well aware that if your baby has not turned head-down by the time you begin labor, you will need a C-section. What else can you possibly do other than just wait? What other options do you, as a concerned mother, have to attempt to prevent this scenario?
Let’s take a step back and talk about the “why’s” of abnormal presentation. Remember that your baby has innate programming that helps him or her know what to do during growth and development. Most babies do assume a vertex position before labor, because their instincts direct them to. This is the same way they innately know to push with their feet off the top of the uterus during contractions or to latch on to a breast even when they have never before seen one. So why hasn’t your baby assumed the vertex position? Because your baby didn’t get the programming to know to do that? Of course not.

Something is preventing the natural process from occurring in your situation. In some cases, it can be a structural issue within the womb, such as a fibroid or other space occupying presence. Often, pre-term labor is accompanied by abnormal presentation because the “time to turn” in the baby’s programming had not yet occurred. However, according to Danforth’s Obstetrics and Gynecology, there is no apparent cause for the failure to go vertex over 50% of the time. It would be ludicrous to assume that over 50% of the fetuses in abnormal position simply “didn’t get the memo”. So, it logically follows that something is preventing the baby from turning.
In the late seventies, Larry Webster, DC, founder of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, noted a connection between subluxations of the sacral and pelvic bones and abnormal fetal positioning. He developed a gentle chiropractic adjusting technique (called the Webster Technique) to restore movement and alignment in the sacrum and observed that babies would regularly turn to the vertex position on their own after the adjustment. During his career, Dr. Webster himself claimed a success rate over 90%, working with approximately 1,000 pregnant moms. 
The success of this approach may be related to examining simple anatomy. The uterus is physically attached to the pelvis and sacrum by way of the utero-sacral ligaments behind the uterus and the round ligaments in front and the broad ligament on each side. During pregnancy, the increased physical loads on the skeleton and the presence of the hormone relaxin in soft tissues make it easy for the sacrum and pelvic bones to shift and become subluxated. Extended bed rest can also contribute to sacral subluxations, as can improper postures and minor traumas. When this occurs, the ligaments described above may be pulled and create undue tension in the uterus.
This uterine tension may decrease the ability of the baby to move into a more desirable position for birth. Imagine pulling on two sides of a balloon. The balloon shortens and becomes rigid in response to the pulling forces. The same thing occurs with the uterus, essentially trapping the baby in whatever position it was in at the time of subluxation. . Until the pull on the uterus can be removed, the constraint will remain and the baby may not be able to force its way into the vertex position. Moms experiencing intra-uterine constraint will often report a decrease in the baby’s movement, or a development of jerky, tense movements, indicating that the baby’s ability to move is restricted.
The Webster chiropractic adjustment begins the process of realigning the sacrum, which may relieve the pull that creates the tension in the uterus. Once that tension is removed, your baby may be free to follow its instincts and assume its best possible position for birth. This adjustment involves no external forces on the baby directly, and it is very comfortable and extremely safe. There have been numerous case reports examining this clinical outcome. 
The Webster analysis and adjustment is recommended as a specific analysis and adjustment throughout pregnancy to enhance normal pelvic function throughout pregnancy  in preparation for birth.  Unfortunately, many women wait until the the seventh or eighth month when mal-position has been diagnosed by the birth provider to seek out a chiropractor trained in this adjustment.  Starting this care at the “eleventh hour,” is not the best approach. Chiropractic works to facilitate normal neuro-biomechanical function, and this is therefore advantageous throughout pregnancy.  Continued adjustments throughout pregnancy and right up until birth may help create a safer and easier birth for the mother and baby.
Due to its proposed success in balancing the pelvis in pregnancy, the Webster technique should be the logical first choice for mothers and birth practitioners to facilitate normal function throughout pregnancy. Should a woman not hear of the Webster technique until later in pregnancy, it is still prudent for her to seek out this natural approach to restore pelvic bio-mechanics and potentially optimize natural function. Without undue tension to her uterus, the baby has more room for movement and proper in-utero development. Free of pelvic and sacral subluxations, the nerve system function may be significantly enhanced and the birth canal's diameter may be maximized, thus decreasing your chances for difficult labor and additional complications during delivery. Due to the gentle nature of the Webster technique, it is a safe adjustment throughout pregnancy.

Dr. Suzanne McBride is trained in the Webster technique. You may contact her at the correspondence given below



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6 Must-Eat Foods for Pregnancy


6 Must-Eat Foods for Pregnancy

Want maximum nutrition during your pregnancy? Make sure these super foods are in your diet.


During pregnancy, for example, you’ll need protein and calcium for your baby’s tissues and bones. You’ll also need extra folic acid to protect against neural tube birth defects, as well as more iron to help red blood cells carry oxygen to your baby.You know you should always eat healthy, but maybe -- just maybe -- you used to cheat a little. Latte and doughnut for breakfast? We've all been there!
Now that you're expecting, you are trying to think much more carefully about what you’re feeding yourself because the foods you eat are the main source of nutrients for your growing baby.
Get off to a good start with these pregnancy super foods.


Whole grains

Enriched, whole-grain breads and cereals are fortified with folic acid and iron and have more fiber than white bread and rice. Work whole grains into your day: oatmeal for breakfast, a sandwich on whole-grain bread at lunch, and whole-wheat pasta or brown rice for dinner. 

Beans

Add black beans, white beans, pinto beans, lentils, black-eyed peas, and kidney, garbanzo, or soy beans to your diet. Try them in chili and soups, salads, and pasta dishes. Besides providing protein and fiber, they are also good sources of key nutrients, such as iron, folate, calcium, and zinc. 

Salmon

Omega-3 fatty acids are good for your baby's brain and eyes, and salmon is a great source. Plus it provides protein and B vitamins. Salmon is also relatively low in mercury compared to other fish. Try it grilled, broiled, or on a salad. You can safely eat up to 12 ounces of low-mercury fish, such as salmon, per week. 



Eggs

Eggs are versatile and a good source of protein that provides amino acids you and your baby need. They contain more than a dozen vitamins and minerals, including choline, which is good for baby's brain development. However, be sure not to eat undercooked or raw eggs.

Berries

Blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries are delicious snacks and taste great in pancakes and on top of cereal. Berries are packed with vitamin C, potassium, folate, and fiber.

Low-fat yogurt

One cup of plain, low-fat yogurt has more calcium than milk, is high in protein, and doesn’t have the added sugar of flavored yogurts. Dress it up with fruit or crunchy, whole-grain cereal. 

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Dr. Suzanne and Valentine



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