A Guide To Your Pregnancy
The first step of your pregnancy, after seeing the little positive stick ought to to have it confirmed
. Call instantly to have a pregnancy test carried out with your doctor, you may be fortunate and get in that same day or need to wait about a week or two. Patience will become your best friend during this time or your worst enemy, waiting can become an extremely hard thing when you want to know for certain whether or not you are or are not pregnant. More than likely you will receive a telephone call several days later on to confirm it.
Set up an appointment to consult your OB/GYN or midwife as soon as possible, chances are you'll be meeting his/her staff before you ever meet them.
This is the first appointment where your doctor/midwife will need to find out all of your medical history. If you have been pregnant, what types of sicknesses run in your family, and so on. If you can, try ensuring that you know all of this in advance, perhaps even have it all down on paper so the moment he/she asks, you are prepared. Throughout the days or weeks leading up to this meeting, you may have concerns so write them down and ask them. Believe it or not, doctors are there to help you, and they've been asked each question you can possibly think of. Prior to leaving, your physician may even provide you with a bag filled with goodies all about being pregnant. Read these, they might prove helpful and let's not forget, they have got coupons.
Your doctor will either provide you with another appointment or have you set one up before leaving. There are some excellent books available if you are truly worried about what will happen next or how birth is going to be, check them out at your local library.
Make sure that you simply get your prenatal vitamins, they're extremely essential throughout pregnancy. If for some reason you cannot take them, speak with your doctor. He/she might be able to prescribe a lower dosage or something else. You'll get your first ultrasound, also referred to as US roughly week 20, this is normally when you find out what sex the infant is. However several medical doctors want to label it safe and give you an ultrasound about 10-12 weeks just to make sure the baby is in the appropriate location and all is going well. You'll also be asked to take an orange drink that you should drink in five minutes. You'll wait around for an hour to 3 hours, at which point your blood gets drawn and you can go home. The test ascertains if you have or have a chance of getting gestational diabetes.
At first, your appointments will be around 4 weeks apart until you hit the 36 week and at that time, it will be two weeks later and a week later after the infant is born. At this point, you ought to be preparing to have the baby. Yes, I am certain you will have some anxiety towards the end of your pregnancy. You've went this far, it's time you see your reward.
by: Keith Clark.
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