Showing posts with label Pregnancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pregnancy. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Baby with Two Faces

Siam Twin Baby:
The Process of ovum fission could be overcome before the ovum being fertilized, so that can yield the twin baby. In the case of baby Siam twin can caused by fission process happened imperfect and ovum already fertilized.

This happening also just happen on the story below:


A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday.
The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali's facial features are duplicated -- she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes.
"My daughter is fine -- like any other child," said Vinod Singh, 23, a poor farm worker

Monday, April 7, 2008

The pregnant Body


A woman's body undergoes a variety of changes to prepare for the growth, nourishment, and birth of a child.





First Semester

An early sign of pregnancy is the cessation of menses, which occurs due to the rising levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a hormone produced by the placenta. This trimester is characterized by various discomforts, including nausea and vomiting, (so called morning sickness), increased frequency of urination due to pressure of the enlarging uterus on the bladder, and breast soreness or tingling due to hormonal stimulation.

Second Trimester
Increasing abdominal girth and pressure from the growing uterus can lead to constipation. Normal intermittent uterine contractions, called Braxton-Hicks contractions, may occur. The mother may experience lightheadedness and may even faint due to the effects of the hormones on the blood vessels and the amount of blood diverted to the uterus, placenta, and fetus. Heartburn becomes an increasing problem because of the increasing pressure on the stomach by the enlarging uterus and delayed emptying of the stomach.

Third Trimester

The last weeks of pregnancy become increasingly uncomfortable. Headaches, hemorrhoids, varicose vein, and swelling of the legs may occur. Shortness of breath is common due to the enlarged uterus, which prevents full expansion of the lungs. In the last days of gestation increased pelvic discomfort develops, caused by the dropping of the fetal head into the pelvis. False labor pains, or contractions of the uterus that do not lead to progressive dilatation, or opening, of the cervix, often occur.

Prenatal Care

Women who receive prenatal care have fewer complications of pregnancy and birth and have healthier babies. Also the earlier and more consistently the care is received, the better the outcome. Education about pregnancy and child rearing is an important part of prenatal care, as are detection and treatment of risk to the mother and fetus are inherent in the provision of prenatal care. In fact, the best time to assess many of these risks is before a woman conceives. Therefore, it is becoming popular for women to receive preconception care while still planning a pregnancy.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Pregnancy and Birth

Pregnancy is a normal physiologic process that begins with conception, follows through development and growth of the fetus and delivery, and ends with return to a fully normal state approximately 6 weeks after birth. Pregnancy causes physiologic changes in the mother's bodily functions to allow for growth and development of the fetus. For the fetus, pregnancy is a time of dependency on the mother for nutrition and thus, exposure to whatever agents to which the mother is exposed. Although a healthy pregnancy is normal for the majority of women, for some there may be complications that can lead to adverse outcome for the mother or the fetus.

The average biological length of human gestation from conception to delivery, is 266 days. Due to the difficulty in assessing the exact date of conception, however, the clinical length of pregnancy is considered to be 280 days, or 40 weeks, calculated from the last normal menstrual period before the cessation of menses, or menstrual flow. This calculation assumes that ovulation occurs 14 days after the last menstrual period. Human gestation a further divided into trimesters, each of which lasts slightly more than 13 weeks.

Fetal Development

After the ovum, or egg, is fertilized by a sperm, the fertilized ovum becomes implanted in the uterus.

First Trimester

Most fetal development, with the exception of such complex functions as brain development, occurs in the first trimester. The hart begins to beat after 4 weeks. By 8 weeks, the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, fingers, and toes are easily recognizable, and male or female reproduction systems have differentiated.

By 12 weeks, all of the recognizable organs have developed. During hese first weeks the fetus is most vulnerable to potential teratogenic, or birth-detect-inducing agents, such as drugs, radiation, and viruses. Drugs taken in by mother during the first weeks can be of particular harm.

Second Trimester

During the second trimester, thin walled skin to be formed in the bone to function, and blood begins to be formed in the bone marrow. In addition, scalp hair appears, subcutaneous fat increases, and bone start to harden. The fetus begins to move in the first trimester, and at about 20 weeks gestation the mother can perceive the movements, the onset of which is called "quickening."

Third Trimester

The majority of fetal weight gain occurs in the third trimester. Ear lobes begin to develop cartilage, testes start to descend into the scrotum, nails begin to grow over the tips of the digits, and creases develop over the soles of the feet. In addition, the fetus begins to demonstrate coordinated pattern of behavior.

The mother and fetus are physiologically connected via placenta, which filter oxygen and nourishment from the mother's blood to the baby via the umbilical cord. It also removes waste products from the fetus to the mother.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Diet Forever

Avoid a hard way diet, although it promote increasingly. To lose weight very fast often followed with increasing weight fast too. Even lessen and increase the weight too fast can disturb the metabolism system. So use diet rule that can maintained after the body weight have reached.

What can be eaten?

  • Eat variation food, this make many alternative health food so we will not boring.
  • Eat food that contains much fiber like fruits, bread, rice, vegetable, bean, seeds, and cereal. These foods contains low calorie but make satisfied fast.
  • Kind of flour food like rice, wheat, noodle and potatoes in a medium quantity will not make fat if not mix with butter or fried oil.
  • Chicken, fish and tofu are protein source with lower fat contains than meat.
  • Choose food that is cooked with steam, baked, boiled, set on fire or fry with a little oil. Avoid food that cooked with fried long.
  • To lessen food that much contain of sugar like chocolate, sweet meal, crackers, and soda drink.
  • Chose can food that is submerged in water not in syrup.

How to eat your food?

  • Mix milled rice with rice that is not milled one or two in a week, or eat only bread every two days.
  • Better eat boiled noodle than fried noodle, better eat white rice that fried rice.
  • Through away the fat contain under the skin of chicken and meat before cocked.
  • Use tofu or bean instead of meat twice a week.
  • Dish up a fresh vegetable with sauce (so the vitamin is not omitted). Only use sauce that is not containing oil.
  • Make a liquid soup not a concentrate soup.
  • For cook, use soybean oil, maize oil or sun flower oil and just oily to the frying pan not dropped.
  • By your household for cook that is not burnt easily
  • Lessen to drink contain alcohol. Fruit concentrate without sugar or only water is better.
  • Chewing your food slowly, and enjoy every feed, this will give a chance for your stomach fill well and avoid to eat too much.

When and Where is a good eating?

  • Eat regularly and don't less the frequency, because you can feel very hungry and will eat too much later.
  • Avoid eat snack because of habits. Eat only cause of hungry not cause of boring, frustrate or just for polite.
  • Don't eat directly take from refrigerator, trying to eat always on the table. Don't eat while watching TV, or eat while read, or eat while cooks.