healthy pregnancy

To get baby healthy and intelligent, physically prepared and pattern of life that in optimal circumstances. Here you will find:

Premarital health counseling

Initial steps that can be done to get a good offspring is to undergo premarital health counseling program. Counseling before marriage is a medical examination services with comprehensive advice to couples getting married, in order to achieve a healthy family and happy. This counseling includes a physical examination laboratory, radiological and genetic examiner. When expectant mothers have never lived like this, it would not hurt if you do it now plans to have a child.

Health counseling can detect a variety of things. As carriers of genetic disorders such as hemophilia , color blind and so on. Or detecting hereditary disease that require attention such as diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. With this counseling can also be known whether the mother suffered from other diseases, such as venereal disease, lung, heart, epilepsy, or cancer of the cervix.

In general, health counseling can provide clues to the future mother of the impact on the health condition of the baby to be born. If the likely negative impacts will occur, for example, there are certain illnesses that reduced the impact can be prevented or reduced the risks.

Cure existing disease

If pre-pregnancy of a woman suffering from certain disease,
should consult a doctor. However, the illness should be cured first. It is important to avoid the ill effects of the disease on the body of pregnant women and fetuses, and that when pregnant women would avoid the use of antibiotic drugs. It’s not impossible to replace your doctor medications that are taken, so as not to harm a fetus.

If the mother had measles, chicken pox, and herpes in young pregnancy, when the internal organs of the fetus begins to form, the disease can cause defects in the fetus. For example, the measles virus. Germany measles causes the fetus to suffer heart disease, blindness, or deafness. But if the mother has not been affected by the disease he can avoid it by doing the immunization of at least 3 months earlier. Besides, he also needs to get other immunizations such as tetanus, hepatitis and others given a fatal impact on the baby. Babies can die after several days of birth due to tetanus.

Stop taking birth control pills

So decided to get pregnant, the mother should stop use birth control pills , because these pills contain hormones that prevent ovulation. If ovulation does not occur then the conception will not occur.
Mothers should wait until 3 menstrual cycles. Because if a pregnant woman before the regular menstrual cycle, doctors will be difficult to estimate the date of birth.

Avoid cigarettes and alcohol

Another thing that is also important to prepare a healthy pregnancy is: a father and the mother immediately stop the habit of smoking and drinking. Because the levels of tar contained in tobacco smoke is inhaled as smokes mother, either active or passive, can inhibit fetal growth. In addition, both these habits also affect fertility.
Nicotine contained in tobacco that can trigger miscarriage, the baby has a low over weight, birth defects, even after birth. Meanwhile, alcohol is another danger to the fetus later. This liquid if consumed too much can cause congenital malformation syndrome known as alcohol. Beverages that contain alcohol can result in babies born with low weight and low levels of development as well. Generally, babies born with alcohol syndrome imperfect limbs, as well as joints and face. Has yet to be known for certain how many levels of alcohol consumption is considered safe. Therefore, more balk avoided altogether.

Keep your weight

At least 6 months before pregnancy, keep your normal weight mothers. This means, according to the weight height. If weight loss is less or excess capital, you should immediately consult a doctor. If the prospective mother have the excess weight, is not recommended for cutting during pregnancy. Reduction of food consumption can harm the fetus. So if the pregnancy is still an excess weight, keep eating a balanced nutritious meals in accordance with the needs of pregnant women.

During pregnancy, maternal weight will usually increase. This increase is dependent on the food consumed, weight of the fetus, placenta, increased blood supply to the uterus, the amount of amniotic fluid in the uterus, the amount of fluid in the body, increasing fat storage, and enlargement of various organs such as uterus and breast. Weight gain is normal during pregnancy ranges from 6,5-15 kg.

If weight gain during pregnancy is not normal mothers (low or excessive) beware. Therefore, this condition can cause various disorders in infants will be born. For example, babies have low birth weight (if weight loss is too low), or high blood pressure (if overweight)

Consider the work environment

So decided to get pregnant, consider the work environment. Because, there are jobs that can give a negative impact on the process of conception. For example, work related to chemicals such as gases, liquids, and. radioactive radiation, or certain equipment, such as machinery and electricity. In addition, work that demands to lift or carry heavy loads repeatedly within a certain distance can also inhibit the occurrence of pregnancy. Make sure all mothers in the workplace can get enough oxygen every day.

There was good before pregnancy, the mother checked the health condition. These tests can determine whether the type of work for pregnant women at risk or not, whether the mother was allowed to continue work or to choose another job, and so on.

Exercise

Pregnancy will cause some changes in the body that are often disturbing. This can be overcome by exercising regularly before pregnancy. Not only that. If you have been accustomed to exercising on a regular basis, then after giving birth would be more easily back into shape to its original state.

If prior to pregnancy was used to exercise regularly, such as roads, swimming, cycling, or jogging, pregnant women can still do so during pregnancy. However, it is better to consult first with your doctor to determine the physical condition and type of exercise should be done. Exercise at least three
times a week for 20 minutes every day.