How Accurate Pregnancy Test Your Equipment?

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

At drug stores or pharmacies would sell a lot of pregnancy test kits. Whether it’s through the detection of a hormone that indicates if you are pregnant HCG (hormone levels) in the urine or your urine, but you should still see a doctor to obtain more certainty about your pregnancy. If you are not pregnant, you still have to go to the doctor to ask why you are not pregnant! What makes the accuracy of pregnancy test results?

For personal use pregnancy test at home, if used correctly will give accurate results. To get accurate results, follow the instructions given to perform the test. Then find a match for the results shown by the example of the instruction sheet. Be careful with test kits that have expired.

Test time. Accurate or whether the results will depend on when you do the test. When you’re pregnant, the hormone human chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) is produced by the body to be detected at least 6 days after conception. The amount of hormones contained in your urine may initially only slightly, but the day will increase more and more numbers in the urine. (more…)

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Benefits of Pregnancy Sport for You and Your Baby

Monday, February 7th, 2011

In principle, pregnant women require special attention in terms of physical and mental. Physically, pregnant women need healthy food, rich in vitamins and minerals essential for fetal growth and development, while preserving the future mother-body fitness. Mentally, the mental health condition is good, and not stress, will help the process of pregnancy becomes fun. Talk about physical fitness, exercise helps expectant mothers in many ways. Even with a simple sport, such as stretching, toning, and aerobics.

With regular exercise, expectant mothers may feel the following benefits:

1. Added weight will be more controlled.
2. Helping the incoming excess calories.
3. Reducing nausea and headaches as it helps increase blood pressure.
4. Reduce back pain.
5. Make your body more fit and active.
6. Better blood circulation and it certainly will affect up to a fetus. So baby receive good intake of the mother.

What is important to note by pregnant women during exercise, are:

1. Begin and end with stretching, by moving the entire body so that all affected muscles, with mild to moderate intensity.
2. Exercise duration from 15 minutes up to a maximum of 1 hour, don’t exceed the maximum limit. (more…)

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Many Women Mistake Cesarean Problems

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Increasing trend of caesarean section in various countries by the WHO considered dangerous to the health of women. Especially if done without a strong medical indication. Many women are misunderstood. They consider a cesarean delivery is safer than vaginal delivery. Cesarean section is major surgery that is only an option when the safety of mother and fetus at risk. For example, if labor is naturally long-standing but no progress whatsoever.

Other conditions are considered to do a cesarean include pelvic abnormalities, pelvic circumference smaller than the size of the fetus, maternal age is too old, abnormal placental location, size of the baby is too large (more than 4 kg), the fetus or infant disorders twins.

The Pregnant mother who gave birth to a cesarean without medical indication of increased risk of intensive treatment, require blood transfusions because of blood loss that occurs in a cesarean section is twice as much than a normal delivery, and the risk of death, Although death from cesarean section are rare but the risk remains higher than in natural childbirth.
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