6th Week Of Pregnancy

Congratulations! You're pregnant! Now there's no doubt, the doctor confirmed your expecting. 

Now what is expecting you in the 6th week of pregnancy?

What happens to your body?

First visit to gynecologist
Be ready for pricking, prying, inspections! Just patiently! Because everything has a purpose, and that is the development of a healthy baby. So, when you get a final confirmation of pregnancy based on the blood analysis, your first prenatal visit to a gynecologist includes a complete physical examination and registering your complete medical history. You have to bring urine for analysis and give blood too.

Urine: Urine sample is given at each visit to a gynecologist. That is how your doctor is monitoring that you don't have some accidentally kidney difficulties or a urinary tract infection. Urin alysis also reveals if your blood sugar is normal, because if elevated you are at risk of getting the gestational diabetes.

Blood analysis: Blood test will exclude anemia, diseases such as measles or chickenpox, hepatitis B and sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis. In some hospitals test for HIV is done.

The gynecologist will certainly want to know your blood group and Rh (Rhesus) factor. Rh factor can be positive or negative, showing the presence or absence a some proteins. If you are Rh negative and your partner is Rh positive, your baby could also be positive. If so your body can create antibodies against babys blood as your body sees baby as a foreign body. These antibodies may attack the blood of your baby's Rh positive ones, which can lead to the decomposition of red blood cells and therfore to anemia. In the worst case, Rh incompatibility can cause severe illness, brain damage and even death. In order to reduce the risk of forming antibodies in the mother's blood, Rh-negative mother is given doses of Rh immunoglobulin (anti-D body). They work by blocking the production of antibodies, preventing the maternal immune system to recognize the Rh positive cells. Rh immunoglobulin is given to a pregnant woman in around 28 week, because than the threat of mixing the blood of mothers and babies is the greatest , and then after childbirth. With the help of these injections, Rh negative women can have a normal and healthy pregnancy with an Rh positive baby.

Physical examination

Be prepared: the first examination involves measuring! By following your weight, the doctor will know if everything goes ok, whether you are growing as needed - not too much, not too little. Than, blood pressure measurement, palpatory breast examination, and then bimanual gynecological examination: the fingers of one hand into the vagina, and the other on your bally, the doctor checks if your body is ready for rapid growth of the fetus in the coming months. The Pap test is done, if it is not done in the past three months.

Ultrasound examination at this stage is optional.

Cnversation with gynecologist

During this visit, you will have a lot of questions in mind, so the best solution is to write them down and to group them i sections For instance, ask your doctor what pain relievers you can drink and what drugs which must not take. Ask for potential problems such as swelling, water retention or morning sickness.

All about your baby

This week, your baby's brain is taking shape. The head is more pronounced with small points, where the eyes will be. You can see the dots where ears will grow. The arms and legs are beginning to form. And for the first time your baby's heart begins to beat. In the middle part of the embrio, begins the formation of the lung, liver, and other internal organs.

How big is the baby?

Your baby this week reached the size of a pea.

Frequently asked questions about pregnancy

I didn't immediately start to drink vitamins, will my baby be okay?

Because nearly half of all the pregnancies are unplanned, many women are in the same situation as you.

Studies have shown that taking certain vitamin supplements are often crucial for the health of the unborn baby. For example, folic acid reduces the occurrence of neural tube defect (in the spine, skull and brain) by as much as 50-70 percent.

Folic acid

When it  impact of folic acid to reduce of neural tube defects was discovered, the practice of prescribing folic acid to pregnant women has begone. You may wonder why you have to drink them if you eat healthy foods rich with this acid, such as dark green leafy vegetables, nuts and grains. The answer is simple: the need for folic acid in pregnant women increases by 100 percent, a synthetic form of folic acid is much more effective for the prevention of fetal anomaly caused by a defect of the neural tube. The doctor will recommend 600 micrograms of folic acid daily. These supplements are well tolerated and have no side effects.

Multiple pregnancy

For many women, first pregnancy symptoms are beginning in this 6th week of pregnancy,but for some may begin even in eighth week. But every woman is different, and many claim to have felt an irresistible need for chocolate from the moment of conception.

So, at this stage most common indicators of pregnancy are absence of menstruation, fatigue, nausea, slight bleeding, painful and swollen breasts, headaches, frequent urination and the need for certain foods.

If you carry two or more babies, all these symptoms are the same, only much more pronounced and appear earlier.

Doctor suspect in a multiple pregnancy based on certain indicators such as above-average weight gain in the first trimester (due to increased blood volume and the size of the uterus), severe morning sickness, excessive fatigue and an increased level of HGC. Of course, when a doctor hears two separate heart rate, one thing is clear!

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Text: blic.rs
Translator: V. Comagic
Image: babycenter.com, 

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