Planning a Pregnancy
Pregnancy is very tricky it happens, when one does not want and does not happen when one desperately tries to get pregnant. So planning is a bit out of reach most of the times. When the woman after 4 to 5 years period of marriage fails to conceive, it becomes mandatory that medical help available should be sought.
Dial a Help:
Simple to complex methods are available like intrauterine insemination, hormone therapy for both the husband and lady after ultrasound investigation of the lady and sperm count and motility of the sperms, which can be determined by laboratory checkup of the semen sample.
About 20 years ago ‘test tube baby’ was hot news, now it is a reality. If other methods available fail, one can try test tube baby to at least have a baby to leave as your heir. The procedure is called in vitro fertilization, the objective is to get the egg fertilized in the laboratory and then to implant in the uterus. Hormone therapy is given to increase the success rate of pregnancy. The initial procedure has been improved upon and called Assisted Reproductive Technology. This new technology has successfully employed on a large scale.
The Success Button:
There is relatively better success rate in the procedures being practiced. Depending on the individual couple age and other favorable factors, there are evidences of success in the application of procedures.
Obese Mother & Child Health:
There are reports that child born to obese mothers are likely to have major birth defects as compared to child born to mothers having standard weight as per the Age height relation chart. Hence it is necessary that mother’s panning for a pregnancy should shed their excess weight as a pre-pregnancy measure.
Over weight Women have an increased risk during delivery of the child endangering the life of the child or mother.
It is an established fact that pregnancy related to obesity, can have many diseases affecting the health of the woman during the pregnancy period like Diabetes, high blood pressure, increase in blood clot in the vessels, increased viscosity of blood etc. I t is well known fact that obesity in pregnancy can lead to pregnancy related diabetes, high blood pressure, an increased risk of blood clots, a higher risk of infection and a risky Cesarean Operation.
Obese Mothers & Child at Birth Risks:
Child born to obese mothers have a tendency to have a large size causing difficulty in normal delivery often results into their death on birth.
An obese mother gives birth to child with birth defects like ill formed neural tube, spina bifida, various heart defects, cleft in the lip and palate, and defects of brain development. Birth defects are responsible birth of a dead fetus or death of the infant shortly after birth.
Birth Related Diseases:
One of the possible causes of birth defects in obese mothers is undiagnosed diabetes in them.
The Second Next possible reason can be nutritional deficiency during pregnancy like deficiency of folic acid. It is difficult to have a proper ultrasound image of an obese woman and in early pregnancy period fetal abnormality can not be determined.
Pregnancy requires that the pregnant lady should have best Physical and Emotional condition before conception. To achieve this, the lady should take nutritious food, keep the weight under check. Pregnancy counseling should always be availed and be careful about nutrition and weight under check.
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